I hadn’t seen a movie by David Lynch before and something that I can’t recall made me think that this was the one to start with.
On the one hand, it didn’t seem to insult the viewer’s intelligence, and it wasn’t insecurely attached to manipulating the viewer just so at every moment. On the other hand, what did it come to beyond being an exercise in manipulating the reader’s feelings this way and that? As the Naomi Watts character goes from being the moral center of the movie to being a dark, creepy presence, it’s as if Lynch’s auteur-ial persona goes from having a moral center to being a dark, creepy presence.
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