David Lynch: Beautiful Dark (Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)
by Greg Olson
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Author: Greg OlsonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-28
ISBN: 0810859173
Number of pages: 752
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Book Review: Exhaustive, Enlightening, Exhausting
Summary: 5 Stars
It's taken me a couple of months to (almost) get through this book, which goes into great detail summarizing and interpreting each of Lynch's works. It definitely provides some insights into Lynch's worldview and his artistic approach, and of course the meaning of his rather mysterious movies. There is, of necessity in such a long book, some minor repetition, mainly to point out repetition in themes and elements in Lynch's work. It could probably have been broken into about 6 or 7 separate books, each handling one movie. Its only major flaw is that it takes until about page 573 until it offers even the slightest negative observation about the man or his work, so solid is its hagiographic belief in the man as an artistic and human genius. One gets the feeling (which the author admits is shared by Lynch) that some of the author's observations of artistic qualities in Lynch's works are probably accidental, incidental, or coincidental. But much of the insights are enlightening and insightful. I have not yet read the final chapter, on Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE, which I have not yet finished watching, as the analyses of the earlier movies would have definitely spoiled my experience if I hadn't seen the movies already- especially Mulholland Drive, which was fun to figure out on one's own. After watching the first two hours of INLAND EMPIRE, I am not so sure that it is worth the effort of trying to figure that one out on my own- it seems almost like a parody of a David Lynch movie in its utter incomprehensibility and confusion and interchangeability of space, time and characters- so I might just skip back to this book. If you are a fan of Lynch's works and want to understand them better, I highly recommend this book.
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