Anatomy of a Fascinating Disaster: Fire Walk With Me

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

>> http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8311326/twenty-things-david-lynch-fire-walk-its-20th-anniversary
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>> David Lynch
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>> http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/48bgm5fa9780252036934.html
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>> http://books.google.com/books?id=GdXeLQIhYJQC
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>  3. 2666, the mammoth final novel by the late Chilean novelist Roberto
> Bolaño, includes a conversation about Lynch's filmography between a
> journalist and a border-town motel manager who's giving him directions
> to a cyber-café called Fire Walk With Me. This strikes the reporter as
> odd. "The clerk shrugged and said that all of Mexico was a collage of
> diverse and wide-ranging homages."
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>  ‎4. The opening credits roll over what turns out to be a close-up of
> static on a TV screen; then somebody smashes the TV with an ax. The
> killing of a television — it seems like a rare moment of obvious
> symbolism for Lynch, the auteur about to wrap up his series on his own
> terms. (Analog-TV snow, after all, is how HBO slyly informs you that
> you're not watching TV.) But it's also a clue that this will be a
> movie in which screens and other seemingly flat surfaces —
> photographs, curtains, mirrors — are actually porous borders between
> one reality and the next
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> http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8311326/twenty-things-david-lynch-fire-walk-its-20th-anniversary

14A. In his book Lynch on Lynch, Chris Rodley asks Lynch if part of
the problem with Fire Walk With Me was that focusing on Laura's last
days made it hard to ignore the fact that this was a story about
incest and filicide. "Maybe so," Lynch said. "Incest is troubling to a
lot of people because they're probably, you know, doing it at home!
[Laughs.]" ...

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