Nowhere GirlI don't agree with it but I occasionally find myself thinking about 'Twin Peaks: The Return" and David Lynch's suggestion that the sheer hubris and violence of the Trinity Test and the creation of the atomic bomb is where our reality took a swerve into a morally empty hell world where bad things increasingly just happen for no reason.
I don't agree with it because Lynch was operating from a nostalgia for his childhood, for an America that never existed and then only for the benefit of straight white people. But also because there's no one moment where history "turned evil." History is full of atrocities, some of them extremely American.
But there's a poetry to the idea reality is getting shittier as it falls apart around us, if only because it's true and manmade. Capitalism and climate change are steadily erasing beauty from the world and our lives are increasingly steeped in misery and hate without any sign of relief. There don't seem to be any good guys anymore. Maybe there never were. Only the dream. We're all waiting for a ghost to save us before we become ghosts ourselves.
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MegatronicThronBanks@gwynnion And if I may be crude for a moment. That explosion CRAPPED ALL OVER Chris Nolan's sad little firework.
@megatronicthronbanks Lynch makes you feel how fucked up it is that this thing exists.
@gwynnion To be honest I hated that episode, most of the fans did. But it was good to see the bang spectacularly presented in his Horror mode. The last time I saw it done as artistically was Sarah's nightmares in the Terminator sequel.
@megatronicthronbanks I'm a fan of Twin Peaks but the Return was interminable and frustrating to watch and that episode in particular didn't really do much else. But that moment, like a few others, was really good.
@gwynnion Yes I was amused. Friends and I were huge fans of the first 2 series. I mean as you well know Lynch doesn't do PLOT, he just does astoundingly good SCENES. But 1&2 did kinda hang together somehow, and even the movie was disjointed yet Ok.
But 3. Srsly. "Who are they? Why did that guy shoot himself in a forest? Why is Harry Dean Stanton playing a guitar? What are these blackface guys everywhere? WHAT IS WITH THE BAR????"
But 3. Srsly. "Who are they? Why did that guy shoot himself in a forest? Why is Harry Dean Stanton playing a guitar? What are these blackface guys everywhere? WHAT IS WITH THE BAR????"
@gwynnion Though! Thanks to those bar scenes I discovered about 5 new really interesting bands!
@megatronicthronbanks It was hilarious seeing The Nine Inch Nails perform. LOL.
@gwynnion Yes, yes it was!