The close-up of Dorothy in Blue Velvet, the zoom into the severed ear in Blue Velvet, the zoom into a hole in a wall of a police interrogation room in Twin Peaks Series 2, the close-ups of characters in Mulholland Drive – and many others – all of these are evidence of David Lynch’s fascination with making the familiar strange through extreme close-up.
Lynch is certainly interesting. But I would suggest he's a Dadaist and works with emptiness and irony. Humans crave mystery but he removes the story-telling, making him a Modernist.
Lynch is certainly interesting. But I would suggest he's a Dadaist and works with emptiness and irony. Humans crave mystery but he removes the story-telling, making him a Modernist.