"IM MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
You can scream with madness about the madness of our system, cry and decry about the lunacies of the profit motive and in doing so you will helplessly be profitable to the very people you denounce. By the end, little is left but to say "thank you, MGM," and enjoy the show.
"What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now…
"Who made this mockery of humanity? Who’s leading us by the nose?"
"The devil, probably"
If the devil really was leading us by the nose, we would probably be better off.
"Never. Oh, never. Nothing will die. The stream flows, the wind blows, the cloud fleets, the heart beats. Nothing will die."
Far from his most surreal and arguably his most humanistic, David Lynch constructs a remarkably human film based on a remarkable human, maybe best showing what made him so unique as an artist. The portrayal of the surreal as deeply human.
Despite being one of the least "Lynchian" and most "normal" Lynch films, this strikes at our conception of…
If I spent $120 million to see this, I probably would have liked it better.
Even if it asks the right questions, this certainly doesn't have the answers.
