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Matt Belinkie (Good Matt), Matt Wrather (Evil Matt), Mark Lee (Good and Evil Mark at the Same Time), and Pete Fenzel (Fenzel, Walk With Me) honor the passing of the cinematic visionary David Lynch by watching and talking about Blue Velvet, his 1986 neo noir art cinema comeback in the wake of That Dune With Sting. We overthink the parallel and sometimes unrelated questions of how we find Lynch’s work compelling and if we enjoy our time watching it. We dive into psychological schools, genre influence, mastery of two worlds, how Laura Dern Is Queen, and symbolic dualities of light and color, seeking to ensconce our brains in the film’s language to “crack its code.” But Lynch was not a filmmaker seeking to be understood, and sometimes there’s just a dark-bearded man in an orange coat holding a giant empty frappuccino on the train in the winter who may or may not kill you. It’s a strange world, after all.

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Further Reading

• Lynchian, from the Oxford English Dictionary
• Farming with Soil Life: Macrofauna >> Insects, from Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
• Embrace the Darkness: Carl Jung and the Shadow, from Einzelganger
• Thoughts on War and Death: Return to Freud, Episode 24, from Philosophy Portal
• Blue Velvet Cake Recipe, from The Spruce Eats
• Season 1: Red vs. Blue Complete, from Rooster Teeth
• David Lynch’s Last Public Broadcast Speech at Meditate America, September 13, 2024