It's better without deriving a straight story narrative from it

Some of Lynch's films have a straight story...For instance, The Straight Story. Or The Elephant Man and even Blue Velvet. And others simply do not like Eraserhead and this film. However that isn't to say that they are without meaning. It's just that most of the interpretations for these films try and unlock some hidden story within the anomalies when I think the films are just that, the anomalies. There's nothing hidden behind it rather it is what is revealing.


The popular theory of what this film is about offers a ''straight story'' explanation. But then that would mean there is one definitive meaning to this film, which would contradict what Lynch has said many time about his ''cryptic'' films. There's never one meaning. We, the viewers hold the meaning to the film. What I feel when I see a house burning down in reverse might be very different from what you feel or what Lynch feels. And according to Lynch, we're all right.

These films are shot like dreams and in a dream there's never a straight story and the events rarely makes sense. However they certainly make us feel something that's real and we try to piece it together when we wake up, sometimes by filling in the gaps with something that makes sense when it was never there to begin with. I think we try to do the same thing when we see films like this and that's the experience.






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