IMO Inland Empire is most like Twin Peaks in that it also features supernatural beings controlling things like the Phantom, The rabbits and the whores plus the whole concept of a cursed story makes it more clear. Everything in the Twin Peaks universe represents something but it is more than metaphor in how it influences the story. FWWM painted a picture that it could all be the characters' ways of dealing with Trauma but season 3 doubled down and made it clear there are more and more supernatural beings and alternate dimensions. Twin Peaks obviously has the black lodge, the white lodge, Bob, The Angels, Judy, The fireman, the woodsmen, dopplegangers and countless other supernatural beings. The two Lynch works that I can say are most supernatural are Twin Peaks and Inland Empire. It is kind of a metaphor but so is most things in Lynch. It can be argued these are all distorted versions of real life or fantasies of Henry Spencer but what makes it really supernatural to me is the concept of the man in the planet controlling things. Mutant babies, man made chickens who squirt blood, and a woman with giant cheeks who lives in a radiator. The film has been described as a dream in which things are amplified and distorted from reality but there are so many supernatural aspects. The bum outside winkies and the blue box certainly seem supernatural but are they only dream symbols? Lost Highway might be more possible to claim it has supernatural aspects because of the Mystery Man who doesn't really have a clear explanation and the fact that the whole film is a mobius strip.Įraserhead seems to be more in the category of supernatural in my opinion. The popular theories of both films would argue that what's happening is entirely psychological but there are definitely other ways of looking at it. I think Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway are mostly up to interpretation. Of course it can be argued that these fantasy aspects are all in the characters' heads. It doesn't seem supernatural for most of it but the elements of wizard of oz, especially with the good witch, adds a fantasy element. Dune is a sci-fi based on a novel so its kind of in it's own category. Obviously there is no real supernatural element to The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, or Blue Velvet. However, the supernatural aspect is questionable in the majority of his works. David Lynch is in many ways known for being surreal and supernatural.
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