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Terrifying!

posted 20 years ago by Club Kid
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I've seen only a few episodes of "Rabbits" and I must say that it is one of the scariest, most disturbing, and terrifying things I've ever seen. Lynch is a brillant, brillant man.

[–] remp_zero 20 years ago

Same for me! the Master is back! This is like Eraserhead and the weird part of Blue Velvet. And I still don't get it why people try to "understand" his movies, it's just like people try to understand dreams: you can't!

[–] calplayer18 20 years ago

where did u guys see this. Ive herd about it and im dyin to see it

[–] schrumpelhut 20 years ago

sorry, remp_zero
But Dreams CAN be understood.
You clearly never heard of an austrian
psychologist named "Sigmund Freud".
He released his book "Traumdeutung"
("Interpretation of Dreams") back in 1908.
He discovered how dreams can be
explained. To do that, you need
the person who dreamed the dream.
So, if you want to compare a lynch-movie with
a dream, you could probably understand it
if David Lynch told you his compound thoughts.

something's wrong

[–] runtheplacered 20 years ago

schrumpelhut, put down your associates degree with your hands up, and stop tossing around this propraganda, trying to sound all condensending. First of all, if you're going by any book written 100 years ago, you're an idiot, and not to be listened to. But let's say the book was written last week, does that make it magically correct? Traumdeutung is one mans' educated guess. I don't believe in total dream intepretation, and in fact I believe most current day (notice not 100 years ago), dream psychologists would agree that quite a bit of a dream is nothing more then vague thoughts on what you did earlier that day. In fact that comes from Freud as well, as I'm sure your psychology 101 teacher explained to you. But just beacause you have that information doesn't mean you can pick apart each and every plot point to the dream and explain why, in detail that content is there.

The same goes for a David Lynch film. Sure, we can see content, but do we know why all of it is there? No. In a dream, only the subconscience knows for sure, and in a David Lynch film, only David Lynch knows for sure.

The previous posters' metaphor of comparing a Lynch film to a dream was quite accurate, and could be used for other Directors as well.

But my main point is, stop trying to sound like you have all the answers. I don't, you SURE as hell don't, and it's pointless to sound like you do.

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[–] edo5000 20 years ago

thank god someone told something to freud-guy up there. good post, djkain 1

[–] JiveGuy 19 years ago

This series is pretty out there, watch it alone in the dark and it becomes scary.

[–] muhhman 19 years ago

i saw it at work in broad daylight and i was scared *beep* :)

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[–] olde13 19 years ago

"First of all, if you're going by any book written 100 years ago, you're an idiot, and not to be listened to."

This argument carries no weight- am I an idiot then if I go by the discoveries of quantum mechanics put down in writing nearly a hundred years ago? Should I simply disavow the theory of evolution because Darwin happened to write it well over a hundred years ago? If you are going to be arrogant and patronizing in your critiques, you had better not make sophomoric slips like these.

[–] jeremy-mcgraw 19 years ago

I'll agree with you on that point, but the original poster did kind of sound like he was straight out of general psychology class. Freud formed his Interpretation of Dreams by analyzing his own dreams for 30 minutes each day while in isolation. He believed our unconscious influences our dreams, yet we have no real way of examining what is in our unconscious. And I don't really think he had an accurate grasp on it. Although I can't be sure, I don't think that my dreams where I'm playing with my childhood friends means I want to molest children, or when I'm dreaming about spelunking, I'm dreaming about sexual intercourse with an old acquaintance, or if I'm writing a note to myself with a pencil, that I'm thinking about masturbating.

As for Rabbits, I look forward to getting my hands on it.

[–] rlauterbach 19 years ago

I have yet to see Rabbits, but eagerly/dreadfully want to. I have seen Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, and was left with the vague feeling that I had experienced something profound, but couldn't vocalize it for others' benefit (It's just strange, like a dream). I don't know if they really matche the description of a dream, but the few folks who I talked to that have seen any Lynchbits seem to agree that it "FEELS" during and afterward that a dream was experienced.

Also saw Dune, and for 89% judge it personally better than the TV mini-series. It wasn't all that strange as far as sci-fi goes, but the music running over the credits at the end by Toto, I believe, leaves me feeling haunted in a good way. Don't know if anyone else gets that from it, but I haven't found that soundtrack anywhere, and would like to find it.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to have to spend time through and after midnight at work and was accompanied by two other un-Lynchified souls. Since a lot of the time was spent in the wait mode, we set up a DVD-laptop and watched Eraserhead. Beforehand, they asked me what it was about, and I mysteriously said "hard to say". What was the story... "not much of a story line". Is it scary?... "only if you don't like nightmares".

Even today, I'm still getting comments about "That strange movie". So, from the description of Rabbits, I really think that I'll have to find a viewable (legitimately purchased, of course) copy and send those two guys another dose of, well, whatever it's called when one watches Mr. Lynch's art.

P.S. My take on dreams seems to be that they have more than one purpose, and one of those is taking what's stored in short term memory, in the hippocampus I think, and generating the neuron building that stores long term memory... it's almost a by-product of that process and is weird because of the close association of widely separated information. Since we also remember feelings, we can experience feelings during that process that are being stored or are in response to some of the stuff being stored. This sort of came to me when I found out that dream deprivation (either through sleep deprivation or medically induced) causes a loss of long term memory for that period.

[–] jimmah120 18 years ago

or if I'm writing a note to myself with a pencil, that I'm thinking about masturbating.

As for Rabbits, I look forward to getting my hands on it.

getting your hands on what Mr. pencil..........

[–] keyser_soze_smokes 9 years ago

Although I can't be sure, I don't think that my dreams where I'm playing with my childhood friends means I want to molest children, or when I'm dreaming about spelunking, I'm dreaming about sexual intercourse with an old acquaintance, or if I'm writing a note to myself with a pencil, that I'm thinking about masturbating.

As for Rabbits, I look forward to getting my hands on it.

Pray tell should certainty ever come!

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[–] marysowers6 18 years ago

Mr. djkain 1, you spelled [condescending] wrong.

[–] Aishado 18 years ago

djkain_1, did you actually read the post you're criticizing?
Stop being condescending yourself and read carefully your fellow poster's arguments before hitting the air. You'll see you pretty much say the same things he is on several points.

[–] Volstag 19 years ago

>> sorry, remp_zero But Dreams CAN be understood. <<

Perhaps, but not in any objective sense.

[–] thedeafdontlikeit 17 years ago

Freud also did a lot of coke and believed everyone wanted to have sex with their mother.

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[–] adina_darko 20 years ago

Arghh, I want to see this but I'm broke ;_;

Gentlemen, you can't fight here! This is the war room!!

[–] ElFantomas 19 years ago

I'm reminded of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me when I watch this. Compare it to Lynch's Black/White lodges....a state of limbo. At least that's what I get out of it.

[–] mobility6002 19 years ago

What makes him brillant? My friend told me about this series and was so excited about it. I watched it and I'm not too impressed. I know some Lynch fans are going to say "OH MY GOSH YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT?!"...

Who DOES understand it?

[–] kellydickens 19 years ago

I really love David Lynch, but Jackson Pollack's paintings look like drop cloths to me. I mean, you like what you like, and maybe that is enough. Further analysis might give more understanding or appreciation, but it doesn't mean you'll like it. I watch Lynch films the way I'd watch an anthill or a sunset: don't try to understand, just notice what is interesting. Part of what appeals to me is that his work resists the usual kind of understanding, and that makes me want to experience it in this more direct way, without constantly asking "who is that character? what is the relation to the plot? what does that mean?" and so on. I guess that means that I enjoy the feeling that is evoked more than the particular content. I'll bet most people are familiar with this kind of experience from other forms of art (music without words, painting, architecture) but it is unusual in film, so we get all excited about David Lynch.

[–] lecleaner 19 years ago

The only thing that's terrifying about this rubbish is the people that take it so seriously. If I hear someone use the word profound and Lynch in the same post again I'm gonna puke.

[–] white_trash_69 19 years ago

Go ahead and puke then because I completly agree with kellydickins! The reason that watching something Lynch created is so profound or mind-blowing is because no other filmmaker can do what he does. He leaves his audience hanging, or questioning which isn't always so common amung films today. He is doing something different, he always has and that's why I take it seriously.

[–] Aishado 18 years ago

I hope your screenname does represent you well, because for now, I guess you must have a lot of cleaning to do around your feet and computer. Poor puke-cleaner. ;)
Oh yes, did you actually noticed that David Lynch's masterpieces were profound? He is a master.
Now enjoy your last meal again, as it's coming back up.

[–] dyahrmarkt 13 years ago

@lecleaner -

Lynch. Profound.

Please nest your IMDB page, so you respond to the correct person.

[–] marysowers6 18 years ago

I agree with kellydickens, David Lynch is an artist-his films are art, and for mainstream non-artistic thinkers who misconcept what he does that is inevitable-they only see it as a film, a movie. A movie that is incoherent and doesn't make sense because they dont see it as art. Everybody has a vision, just because you dont understand it doesnt mean its nonsense youre just an outside observer.

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[–] Dream_Demon 10 years ago

I see his films as art, more specifically the film version of surrealism. David Lynch doesn't make films in order to excite us with action or comedy (although plenty of both can be found in plenty of his works). He makes films to reveal truths within both dreams and the subconsciousness. He is a surrealist in the form of a film maker.

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