posted by Padraig at 6:16 AM
I'm going to take a shot Lynch's enigmatic "cheese is made from milk" comment.I'm going to approach it by taking some conventional associations with milk and cheese. Milk is pure, clean, innoncent (in a sense). While cheese is rotten, smelly, a kind of corrupted milk. So to say that cheese is made from milk is to point out that corruption comes from purity, a very common theme throughout Lynch's work.In the (viral) video Lynch is seen with a cow, the source of milk and cheese, and thus of purity and corruption, in a similar way to Lynch, who is the source of these elements via his film. This connection is further highlighted by putting the "innocent" animal in the middle of decadent Hollywood. So once again purity and corruption are juxtaposed, as they are in Lynch's wearing of a white shirt (the color of milk, or purity), and yet Lynch is the source of the nightmarish world revealed in his films.Finally, I haven't seen Inland Empire yet, but juxtaposing Laura Dern's image on the billboard in the viral video with that of Lynch and the cow and Hollywood could be seen to indicate that she plays a similar role in the film. The meeting place of purity and corruption. Much like she did in Wild at Heart.All of this is just a guess, and maybe Inland Empire itself will provide some more insight in this phrase.
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I'm going to take a shot Lynch's enigmatic "cheese is made from milk" comment.
I'm going to approach it by taking some conventional associations with milk and cheese. Milk is pure, clean, innoncent (in a sense). While cheese is rotten, smelly, a kind of corrupted milk. So to say that cheese is made from milk is to point out that corruption comes from purity, a very common theme throughout Lynch's work.
In the (viral) video Lynch is seen with a cow, the source of milk and cheese, and thus of purity and corruption, in a similar way to Lynch, who is the source of these elements via his film. This connection is further highlighted by putting the "innocent" animal in the middle of decadent Hollywood. So once again purity and corruption are juxtaposed, as they are in Lynch's wearing of a white shirt (the color of milk, or purity), and yet Lynch is the source of the nightmarish world revealed in his films.
Finally, I haven't seen Inland Empire yet, but juxtaposing Laura Dern's image on the billboard in the viral video with that of Lynch and the cow and Hollywood could be seen to indicate that she plays a similar role in the film. The meeting place of purity and corruption. Much like she did in Wild at Heart.
All of this is just a guess, and maybe Inland Empire itself will provide some more insight in this phrase.
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