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SuperZapper_Recharge t1_itkvgmx wrote

I am a David Lynch fan. And I am old.

But I missed the entirety of the Twin Peaks thing when it was at it's height. Back then I didn't know - or care - what a David Lynch was. Was sometime later I found the guy.

Thing is, Twin Peaks has always felt like quite the time commitment to me. I kept putting it off for watching or rewatching a favorite movie.

Then Showtime did the Twin Peaks thing in 2017. It premiered and I said, 'Fuck it.'. I went all in on the show without any previous viewing experience at all.

Hands down, one of my favorite TV experiences ever. Just flying blind like that.

I mean, the thing about Lynch's stuff - it isn't always supposed to make sense. Us fans, we love Mulholland Drive - ask us fans to explain it. We can't. David gave us a list of 10 things to pay attention to. We still don't get it. But we love it anyways!

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N7777777 t1_itllcj9 wrote

I found his list of ten things to be rather helpful. Unlike most of his films, MD can be deciphered fairly well if you really want to. Without spoilers, the key is dividing the real story line from the hallucinated dream of how she wished it had been. For me that accounted for about 85% of the scenes (on about my 4th watching.) But unraveling it is not the point, just an extra game on top of the masterpiece.

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SuperZapper_Recharge t1_itlr1q4 wrote

There are really no movies that I watch it - then I immeditaly want to watch it again. Everytime I watch Mulholland Drive I feel this way. It is like, 'Nope, this next time... I almost got this!'.

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