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I've loved many filmmakers in my life, but none so much as David Lynch. His work didn't just entertain or enrich me, it *transformed* me. I came out a different person after watching his films. So I wrote a review of Eraserhead in order to try to say goodbye. Link in replies.
@John_Barach I think too many people see the purpose of art in general as just moral lecturing or personal confession or some sort of social manipulation. They themselves wouldn't create art for pleasure so they certainly can't imagine art being pleasurable.
@xwanyex I've seen plenty of house flippers. They always do the same thing. They buy a grandma's house, then strip the basement swinger's bar of the two way mirrors, then paint everything beige and sell the place for $100,000 more. "Improvement" is a stretch
Still thinking about this note Cormac McCarthy made in his private journal that my fiancรฉe and I stumbled on last year in the Wittliff Collections: โThe moral clarity of the English-speaking people has been a thousand years perfecting. It is a pointless task to imagine such a struggle taking markedly less time than this in some other culture. The notion that we are all as one is nonsense.โ
@RealDooMDumas Le probleme c'est que les chars recent sont moins fiable que les vieux chars et coute *beaucoup* plus cher a reparer. C'a coute entre $1,000 et $2,000 pour changer un phare LED de char neuf. C'etais comme $20 pour changer l'ampoule avant. Le monde ont pas l'argent, point.
Oh, absolutely. It was originally about television, but it's spooky how much Videodrome predicted the internet and social media.
"The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television."
@Levans6081 You can tell video games and tiktok videos have totally ruined people's ability to enjoy anything that isn't an extension of their narcissism. I'm guessing that in the very near future people won't be able to enjoy movies or books because they won't be a mirror to themselves
@DLWQueenCity God the show used to be genius, wasn't it? Even today, there's glimmers of the old Simpsons in the new ones. I'll be genuinely devastated when it finally ends. It's been with us so long that it's almost *become* a part of us on some level.