Massive Lynch fan and have been looking forward to watching FWWM for quite some time. If you're a Lynch or twin peaks fan this is definitely worth watching. The terrible reviews following this after its initial release are wrong - however I don't agree with some recent assessment of FWWM as one of Lynch's masterpieces. Yes, all of the surreal weirdness is there and the opening 20 minutes is a great example of this. However, in a way the problem is not that it was too weird but that it was not weird enough - as a movie it's too constrained and tied to the essential plot points which match it up with the brilliant twin peaks. This forces a narrative arc that is more TV-like preventing the movie from truly expanding into what it is. In this sense it's a reverse of Mulholland Drive which was supposed to be a TV series but was turned into a movie - this is a movie that still feels too much like a missed TV season. Perhaps this is why the opening scene is of a TV set being destroyed.
It's definitely one of Lynch's darkest works and contains more explicit detail than is common in his other films. Perhaps my mind might change on FWWM when I watch the Twin Peaks: The Return however.
A solid film from one of my favourite directors - not a flop, but not an unsung work of genius. Worth watching, though.
It's definitely one of Lynch's darkest works and contains more explicit detail than is common in his other films. Perhaps my mind might change on FWWM when I watch the Twin Peaks: The Return however.
A solid film from one of my favourite directors - not a flop, but not an unsung work of genius. Worth watching, though.