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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  You certainly won't be fighting me to the death over 'Fire Walk with Me' - for me it's almost as stratospheric as Highway, Mulholland etc etc. I'm often amused by supposed Lynch fans' attitudes to this film, which is sloppily and unimaginatively dismissed by many, so it pains me too when people harp on about it being 'shit'.
I'm inspired and intrigued to check out the Bergman reference - haven't seen 'Hour of the Wolf' since I was sixteen, and at that point I think most of it was probably beyond me. Been thinking of having a Bergman resurgence for a while now actually - though the sorry thing is, I find it so much easier to watch something relatively accessible but trashy these days than more abstract and demanding stuff (recent delve into Lost Highway and various others aside). It used to be the other way round, but that's how life is when you end up with a pile of booze and a backlog of cheapshit horror! |
I've always thought the critics of fire walk with me were expecting a lot more of the films humour, instead lynch focused on the dark heart of the movie and I would argue that the humour would be totally out of place in a movie about incest and sexual abuse. I've enjoyed fire walk with me for a long time, ever since it turned up on vhs in my local libary to rent.