Comments on: It makes no sense

By: joel

joel — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:24:01 +0000

One thing I dislike about David Lynch is that he doesn’t add chapter stops to his DVDs, so if you want to try to decipher his movies by going back/forth between scenes, you’ve got a lot of rewiding/fast-forwarding to do.
Or, you know. If you want to pick up the movie from where you left off the day before.
He may be a fantastic filmmaker (I have no clue what Mulholland Drive was about), but that’s pretty arrogant.

By: Brit

Brit — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:02:25 +0000

One thing I learned from DMing roleplaying games is that sometimes you have to make a story painfully obvious for people to understand what’s going on. If there’s any plot twists at all, you have to leave unrealistically surendipitous clues to get them to figure things out. The upshot is that just because you understand what’s going on with all the facts in front of you doesn’t mean other people can work backwards – i.e. put the facts together correctly to understand the larger picture. I have to wonder if David Lynch is in the position where he understands what’s going on because he already knows the big picture, but can’t realistically put himself in the position of a viewer trying to decipher the big picture from the fragments.

By: Ed Heil

Ed Heil — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:37:11 +0000

I remember Jon Anderson (frontman of Yes) saying in an interview that his impenetrable lyrics make perfect sense on the surface of it to him. For example, their hit song “Roundabout” is about roundabouts.
I kid you not.