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Watch: David Lynch directed a short film about the debt ceiling
By James Brady RyanAugust 3rd, 2011, 10:30 amComments (10)Don't worry, it doesn't include any insidious horrors that will haunt your mind for the rest of your life, waiting to take your soul every time you close your eyes. (...Mulholland Drive had a very intense and unfortunate impact on me.) But David Lynch's short film about the debt ceiling, HOW THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING, does capture that essential Lynch quality that does make you wonder what the fuck is going on:
I really like David Lynch, even though he terrifies me, but what a fucking wank job that is. (Second time I've expressed this sentiment in as many days.) If you're going to make a film about the debt ceiling, make a film about the debt ceiling. Throw some fever dreams in there, get a little person talking backward, obsess over cherry pie. I don't care. As long as you actually address, even a little, the current budget crisis.
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I disagree! Lynch actually talking about the debt ceiling would have probably resembled what actually happened in Congress. Gibberish, story lines that seem important but then go nowhere, strange close-ups, etc. This is totally evocative: the sound of a large dump truck or sanitation vehicle in reverse, braking, continuing to reverse, braking, reversing... that is completely symbolic for what the hell just happened in Washington. And the black smog/pollution cloud emanating from (or permeating?) the Capitol building is appropriate.
Fucking wank job? Really? I think people who critique ought to make a fucking video themselves. But first one must be able to think like David Lynch.
Cranky indeed. We critique all kinds of things we can't do, artist. I sure swear at my computer a lot, and I don't know a single bit of code.
Why the fuck is this idiot still allowed to make movies?
I imagine because, unlike you, he's not actually an idiot.
because people who are not you like his stuff?
"[I]t doesn't include any insidious horrors that will haunt your mind for the rest of your life . . . ." So what you're saying is that Michele Bachmann's not in it?
zing~ !
oh gosh, you will probably be called a misogynist by publius though
c'mon lynch, there could have at least been some text in there or something explaining your opinion or something.
I like Lynch's stuff most of the time but sometimes I'm just kind of like "uhhhh." This is one of those moments.
I think the film is brilliant in it's simplicity.
The groaning of the engine and the beepbeepbeep of a truck backing up made me think of how the money spent in washington is almost being carried away by the truckload.
I also liked how the beeping never stops - it changed for me after about 30 seconds... it went from the beeping or a reversing truck to almost a warning or alarm... which is an excellent commentary again.
Lynch is brilliant.