I still have to digest Part 18. Quite hard for my tastes. The previous part was indeed very good in my opinion but maybe a little too straightforward (did anyone expect Mr. C overcome Dale Cooper, in a Season 2-like fashion?). Why do many so-called Lynch fans (including me) like the less-weird parts (e.g. FBI investigating the supernatural) before being disappointed by the (apparently absurd) finale? Did we pick the "wrong" David Lynch?
I loved 18 and found 17 to be disappointing.
You ask a pertinent question, OP. Lynch refuses to dichotomize: BOTH bone-shattering nightmares and syrupy daydreams, BOTH avant-garde film theory and readymade cliches, BOTH the banal and the absurd, and so on and so on. There can never be an equilibrium or synthesis to eliminate the side-by-side contradictions. All of which makes Lynch's work more realistic than conventional genre-abiding fictional fare. The kick is that "there's something for everyone (to love and hate)." The surplus of signifiers and the superabundant excess of interpretations assures that rigorous individual approaches can achieve finality (as in thoroughly justifying themselves discursively, with exact reference to the work) but the sort of closure that would "explain everything" remains a chimera.
I loved 18 and found 17 to be disappointing.
Agree !!
I think that episode 17 was for all the people who wanted all their questions to be answered and episode 18 was the one for the lynch fans. I love it when you have to interpret it for yourself. It is a one of a kind tv show that you can watch over and over again for many years and still find new things in it. There are many interpretations for the end, pick the one you like 😉
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