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We have seen the 1-1-9 woman and her little boy and the man who killed Hutch and Chantal, but there's no life in the street where the Joneses live. No one washing a car, mowing the lawn, walking the dog... Where are the neighbors???
We have seen the 1-1-9 woman and her little boy and the man who killed Hutch and Chantal, but there's no life in the street where the Joneses live. No one washing a car, mowing the lawn, walking the dog... Where are the neighbors???
Foreclosures, IMO. A fun-house mirror reflection of "Ghostwood..."
1-1-9 woman is in another neighbourhood.
Good catch! The Las Vegas neighborhoods we've seen are very... similar. And not in a good way (IMO).
We did of course see a neighbor in Part 16, and, well, we saw how that panned-out. LOL
1-1-9 lady was at the house where Dougie was messing with Jayde.
I hate to press the point... neighborhoods notwithstanding....
... I think what we're getting here is a Lynch-Frost masterstroke, repurposing the "tumbleweed" spaghetti-western set/soundstage to make for both a haunting atmosphere and , crucially, an IMO unmistakable nod to the "boulevard of broken dreams" of the post-mortgage crisis U.S. ... Garmonbozia aplenty.
Posted by: Matthew Gladney
We did of course see a neighbor in Part 16, and, well, we saw how that panned-out.
I think that's the reason why we don't see much folk around. 😉
And not a car in any driveway or on the street except those we already know about. Nobody responding to mass gun fire except the mitchums.
But all the lawns and houses are immaculate, not looking of foreclosures or abandonment. Very odd.
Posted by: Matthew Gladney
We did of course see a neighbor in Part 16, and, well, we saw how that panned-out.
I think that's the reason why we don't see much folk around. 😉
Indeed! Lol.
He is also an archetype of a Polish demon, comically ported over from Inland Empire ...
Lancelot Court may be a neighborhood used as a dormitory by the most: they use it only to sleep and little else; during a normal working day there's no one around. Activities such as lawn mowing are done early in the morning or in the evening, given also high temperatures in Vegas in early October.
And not a car in any driveway or on the street except those we already know about. Nobody responding to mass gun fire except the mitchums.
But all the lawns and houses are immaculate, not looking of foreclosures or abandonment. Very odd.
Respectfully, I'm going to keep pressing on the metaphorical possibility here... One made all the more impactful because of the pristinely uninhabited homes. No buyers, no sellers, but a "for sale" sign in the yard of the house Jade and Dougie were squatting in for their liaison...
Many people have lost homes since 2008. An immaculate ghost town of "dream homes" is a an uncanny (and campy) way to contextualize this poetically, IMO. Pure Lynch.
There could very well be more symbolic reasons for this, but here's a practical reason:
I've been to Las Vegas. It's hot, dry and windy, even in September/October. It's in a desert and one can get dehydrated pretty fast when outdoors.
I lived in the deep south of the US for awhile. It was hot and humid. The middle class neighborhoods there looked like ghost towns. Everyone stayed inside with the air conditioning on as much as possible. Las Vegas is probably the same.
Dougie's neighbors :
https://goo.gl/maps/o7vVKE348562
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same
....etc...
Here's a wild idea...
Maybe they are all out at work?
Strange concept, I know, but it could explain the lack of people and cars in the area.
Besides which, if you heard gunfire nearby would you rush out to take a look? I'm damn sure I wouldn't. I'd get my family into a safe room at the back of the house and call the cops.
Fire walk with 
