Writer/Director: David Lynch
Year: 1986
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
A perverse underworld exists in a quiet, innocent little town, and Jeffrey stumbles upon it, and in his curious investigation into it, gets sucked in as the horror and strangeness steadily build to a climax.
Lynch shows us the dark underside that exists just below the surface of the perfect, quiet little American towns. Just as in the opening sequence, when we go from the prettiness of the homes and lawns, to the bugs and beetles crawling in the mud just below the grass.
Be prepared for a weird mystery, full of memorable moments, lines of dialogue, and images.
It is hard to get attached to this film, I think because we have a natural aversion to perverse crime, and it naturally offends the viewer and puts you at a distance, but I think that this is exactly what Lynch is trying to show us... that none of our perfect little innocent towns are actually untouched by evil, that it lurks and haunts at least a few in every town, no matter how perfect it looks on the surface.
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