"Desire is a wound of reality. The art of cinema consists in arousing desire to play with desire. But, at the same time, keeping it at a safe distance, domesticating it, rendering it palpable. This is the proper tension of the Lynchian universe. The beauty of Lynch, if you look closely, it’s never clear. Is it really the brutal real out there which disturbs us, or is it our fantasy? The logic here is strictly Freudian, that is to say we escape into dream to avoid a deadlock in our real life. But, then, what we encounter in the dream is even more horrible, so that at the end, we literally escape from the dream, back into reality."
"Desire is a wound of reality. The art of cinema consists in arousing desire to play with desire. But, at the same time, keeping it at a safe distance, domesticating it, rendering it palpable. This is the proper tension of the Lynchian universe. The beauty of Lynch, if you look closely, it’s never clear. Is it really the brutal real out there which disturbs us, or is it our fantasy? The logic here is strictly Freudian, that is to say we escape into dream to avoid a deadlock in our real life. But, then, what we encounter in the dream is even more horrible, so that at the end, we literally escape from the dream, back into reality."
