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"Why is poor taste ubiquitous?" --Eric Spieakermann in "Helvetica" Because we live in a world who live to be titilated with the inane, lewd, and lascivious. L

"Why is poor taste ubiquitous?" --Eric Spieakermann in "Helvetica" Because we live in a world who live to be titilated with the inane, lewd, and lascivious. Like a brain-damanged Bower Bird's trashy monument to itself, he created monuments to the vapid and wasteful. "Buh-bye." --David Spade's flight attendent character on SNL

dmos62 2y ago
The way your comment reads weird is really remniscent, for me, of the weird characters David Lynch created. Those that were half here and half somewhere else. I bet weirdness follows him to this day.
jjulius 2y ago
>Obsessed with compassion and how to create happiness for others... "One of these things is not like the other..." It's almost like you haven't even stopped to understand his work. There's far more compassion in the films and television he left behind than there is in your comment. It's a shame you don't seem to want to find it. I hope you have a pleasant weekend.
- MrMcCall 2y ago
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  - adamiscool8 2y ago
    Check out The Elephant Man
    - MrMcCall 2y ago
      My intuition says that that is truly a film that portrays mankind's potential for humanity, not the depravity of BV. Ironically, from IMDB's storyline for TEM, it says, > Brutish Bytes, his "owner", only wants whatever he can get economically by presenting Merrick as a freak. which is precisely what DL did in BV, but for drug-induced violent rape. Side note: I loved Freddie Jones in Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes' "Wisteria Lodge", though, ironically, that is the one episode with rape. Of course, it was in no way gratuitous, as it was TV, but obvious nonetheless. As well, she had deliberately risked herself on purpose in order to catch her husband's murderer. It is truly amazing the depth and breadth of human evil encompassed by that Sherlock Holmes' TV series. I'd dare say they've got it all, by their mostly accurately following 130ish year old books. Doyle really understood human nature. I heartily recommend all 41 episodes, if only for Jeremy Brett's Holmes, but, really, it is outstanding in every aspect.
      - jjulius 2y ago
        There's a lot to be said for how abuse was portrayed in Twin Peaks. Many survivors of abuse have praised the show and it's film counterpart for their honest portrayal. Sheryl Lee, the actress who portrayed Laura Palmer, has highlighted her positive interactions with survivors in numerous interviews. It's a hard watch, but it's an honest watch, and empathetic at its core. You're focusing on the fact that such abuse is shown, without digging any deeper into why it's shown, and in what context - context that you are inherently ignorant to by your own admission of never having seen Blue Velvet. I have, so I know of what I speak. And to your flip response about, "Enjoy your Insta", I don't. I stay far away. Once again you seem to be making assumptions about people (and casting aspersions towards them based on said assumptions) and things based on surface level interactions, the opposite of trying to be compassionate.
        jjulius 2y ago
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        MrMcCall 2y ago
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dmos62 2y ago

The way your comment reads weird is really remniscent, for me, of the weird characters David Lynch created. Those that were half here and half somewhere else. I bet weirdness follows him to this day.

jjulius 2y ago

>Obsessed with compassion and how to create happiness for others... "One of these things is not like the other..." It's almost like you haven't even stopped to understand his work. There's far more compassion in the films and television he left behind than there is in your comment. It's a shame you don't seem to want to find it. I hope you have a pleasant weekend.

MrMcCall 2y ago
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- adamiscool8 2y ago
  Check out The Elephant Man
  - MrMcCall 2y ago
    My intuition says that that is truly a film that portrays mankind's potential for humanity, not the depravity of BV. Ironically, from IMDB's storyline for TEM, it says, > Brutish Bytes, his "owner", only wants whatever he can get economically by presenting Merrick as a freak. which is precisely what DL did in BV, but for drug-induced violent rape. Side note: I loved Freddie Jones in Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes' "Wisteria Lodge", though, ironically, that is the one episode with rape. Of course, it was in no way gratuitous, as it was TV, but obvious nonetheless. As well, she had deliberately risked herself on purpose in order to catch her husband's murderer. It is truly amazing the depth and breadth of human evil encompassed by that Sherlock Holmes' TV series. I'd dare say they've got it all, by their mostly accurately following 130ish year old books. Doyle really understood human nature. I heartily recommend all 41 episodes, if only for Jeremy Brett's Holmes, but, really, it is outstanding in every aspect.
    - jjulius 2y ago
      There's a lot to be said for how abuse was portrayed in Twin Peaks. Many survivors of abuse have praised the show and it's film counterpart for their honest portrayal. Sheryl Lee, the actress who portrayed Laura Palmer, has highlighted her positive interactions with survivors in numerous interviews. It's a hard watch, but it's an honest watch, and empathetic at its core. You're focusing on the fact that such abuse is shown, without digging any deeper into why it's shown, and in what context - context that you are inherently ignorant to by your own admission of never having seen Blue Velvet. I have, so I know of what I speak. And to your flip response about, "Enjoy your Insta", I don't. I stay far away. Once again you seem to be making assumptions about people (and casting aspersions towards them based on said assumptions) and things based on surface level interactions, the opposite of trying to be compassionate.
      - jjulius 2y ago
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        MrMcCall 2y ago
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