Cheech and Chong's Bad Dreams
Extremely rote Greek tragedy as gangster drama, except for all of the ways in which it's not (details of indigenous Colombian ritual and belief, blunt critique of neoliberal economics, birds...lots of birds). Not a lecture or an essay or an ethnographic film, though, its primary concern is surprisingly in telling a straight forward story.
Turns out the true disruptor was... capitalism, the weed with roots in hell.
"There's no tomorrow... Know why, baby? 'Cause it'll never get here." _ Jacques Renault, blank as a fart
"Good morning, America" - Carl, after 9 a.m.
Edges out The Sopranos hard cut to black scored with "Don't Stop Believin'" in the category of greatest way (/metastatement) to end a TV series. Opening on a television showing static (that is subsequently smashed), it's hard not to read some aspects as Lynch venting frustrations. Characters literally vanish. Cooper is anxious to see…
Fiddling with the aerial doesn't always make the signal more clear. The cat is both dead and not dead (Clive understands the dead cat, but not the math). The man in the prologue is or isn't a dybbuk. The bookends suggest an unbroken cycle that may or may not relate to what characters have and haven't done. "Accept the mystery."
Rabbi Nachtner: "We can't know everything."
Larry Gopnik: "It sounds like you don't know anything! Why even tell me this…
