This review is moreso a brief collection of thoughts I had on Lynch and his role within “auteur theory”, nothing too put together.
I think I had put this off for so long due to its sort of reputation as an 'outlier' in Lynch's filmography, aside from maybe Dune? If I was to look at this film, on paper, is a more family-oriented, straightforward narrative sandwiched in between Lynch's more phantasmagorical features; Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. I probably had…
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"I'm not sure if it's comedy or tragedy... but it's a masterpiece."
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Hazbin Hotel 2019
really awesome i liked when they said fuck and talked about sex like wtf you’re not supposed to do that!
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Pasolini 2014
“Narrative art, as you well know, is dead. We are in a period of mourning. Mine is not a tale, it is a parable. The meaning of this parable is the relationship of an author to the form he creates.”
Upon my second viewing, I feel as though I’ve fully clicked with what Ferrara set out to do with the fluctuating use of both the English and Italian language; Pasolini speaks the same language as the people around him if…