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Message: [QUOTE="vitad00d, post: 45469, member: 73711"] This "but what does it mean?" discourse really flared up around Mulholland Drive, and always seemed so absurd. David Lynch was a trained painter, and his first attempts at filmmaking were admitted attempts to make moving paintings. He made dramatically gripping movies with memorable characters––Frank Booth most notably––but that ethos of creating filmed paintings, (in other words, [I]motion pictures[/I]) was always at the nucleus of what he was doing. Growing up means no more Santa Claus, nor any hard skeleton of truth that fictional work maps onto and over. "Canon" is making a small lie into a bigger one. David Lynch understood this, and was comfortable with it, which gave him a license to explore the domain of dreams, and things half-remembered––there is no realer and truer story behind the visible story of stuff like Eraserhead or Mulholland Drive, and it would have been weird if there were. [/QUOTE]

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