This post is aimed at honoring David Lynch’s recent news that he has passed to the other side. Lynch was one of my favorite directors due to the fact he was not the typical Hollywood cookie cutter type who would cut corners to appease his financing overlords but rather stuck to his own style that was true to himself. His style and the open ended story telling that left open to viewers to interpret was always a trademark of a David Lynch film, not to mention his unconventional cinematic Avant-garde approach to stir the visual senses.
During my days in college David Lynch’s movies such as “Blue Velvet” which by the way I ended up writing a critique about as a Film analysis class assignment; had me and a lot of my schoolmates talking about his films that many of us were always guessing about.
There were also the Friday night special club spent with my friends drinking coffee and eating donuts as sort of fun ritual as we anticipated each episode of “Twin Peaks” as it aired on ABC each week which was all the rage at the time with viewers wanting to find out who done it and could never get enough.
There were other films as well, such as “Wild at Heart”, followed by Twin Peaks the movie “Fire Walk with Me” and “Lost Highway” that came soon after the Twin Peaks cult following started to dissipate into people getting older and moving on.
Long after a lot of us had moved on from that cult phase then Lynch surprises us again with the release of “Mulholland Drive” that was more thought provoking with even more open ended interpretations of story telling with strange mysterious characters but with the same Lynch avant-garde intensity trademark that he was known for.
His films always kept things interesting with ambiguous but mysterious plots, goofy character traits, and stylistically film scene choices. His kind of artistic expression was unique in the film industry and will be missed. David Lynch had a talent for taking visual expression as an art form to another level and thus his kind of story telling doesn’t come around very often.
R.I.P David Lynch!