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David Lynch Keeps His Head ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

It's no wonder that Lynch's critical reputation over the last decade has looked like an EKG: it's sometimes hard to tell whether the director's a genius or an idiot.

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Lynch's movies are not about monsters (i.e. people whose intrinsic natures are evil) but about hauntings, about evil as environment, possibility, force.

David Lynch Keeps His Head ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

It's no wonder that Lynch's critical reputation over the last decade has looked like an EKG: it's sometimes hard to tell whether the director's a genius or an idiot.

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Lynch's movies are not about mon sters (i.e. people whose intrinsic natures are evil) but about hauntings about evil as environment, possibility, force.

Greatly Exaggerated ⭐️⭐️.5

Authors are monkeys who mean.

I fear I don’t have the prerequisite knowledge of twentieth-century literary theory for this to land the way it should.

Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75

My particular neurological makeup (extremely sensitive: carsick, airsick, heightsick; my sister likes to say I'm "lifesick") makes even just watching this an act of enormous personal courage.

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I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.

i need to stop reading this before bed because it is so good i don’t stop and sleep ….. against that still what is continually bugging me is that he describes womens bodies in a textbook laura mulvey male gaze medium she couldve sampled these stories to prove her argument