Lynch Land

...this won't be the last time you are all witness to my deepest love for david lynch. i happened upon "the elephant man" today and was lulled in per usual into a beautifully frightening world the likes only mr. lynch can provide. the movie is desperate and sad yet with this almost puritanical sense of moral. typical lynch. he shows you the ugliest in all of us and throws rocks through the windows of suburbia. he has a boy scout's logic and a nostalgic longing for small town goodness. "twin peaks" is a delicious mix of the nuclear family quietly slipping into the town's madness. everything from dimensional or alternate realities to the narcotic secrets of laura palmer. "blue velvet" has jeffrey beaumont. the mysterious and handsome college boy with supposed good old fashioned values only to stumble into dennis hopper's terryifying world. corrupt by the lustful isabella rossellini. "mullholland drive" has betty white. the naive engenue, desperate for fame but hindered by her innocence. an innocence that we find out later is delusional. "wild at heart" well....what can i say. it's the "wizard of oz"! (with diane ladd as the witch!!) and last but certainly my favorite. "lost highway" the darkest of his films, i think. the dual worlds of fred patterson. the tortured, mistrustful, isolationist. duality is a consistent theme in lynch's work. he is a true genius and auteur of human behavior. my hat comes off to you, mr. lynch!