A lovely experience. I watched this movie with my two tortoiseshell cats and never before have they sat transfixed and attentively watched a whole movie with me.
It felt like playing Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild while someone in another room was watching Madagascar. Most notably, I am impressed with how much depth of emotion was communicated with no words. It ran from situational comedy to tragedy, and never did I think, “If only they could just talk…
This movie had been on my list for decades. It was never the right time I guess. I’m glad I saved it until now. It resonated with me in a way it wouldn’t have when I was younger.
It’s a movie that feels familiar even on a first watch. The random joys and the random sorrows of daily life are a fixture of everyone’s experience. But specifically, it reminded me of a short film script I once tried to write…
This is David Lynch’s most spiritual film, and I will not elaborate on that.
The sound editing alone is spine-tingling, even without the viscerally eerie imagery that warns us not to mistake adulthood and responsibility for a loss of childlike wonder. We all need to enter the radiator in our minds somedays.
RIP David — an absurdist voice of reason for those who never found solace in the explicable. Today he enters the radiator in our hearts.
