On January 20, 2020 which was the 74th birthday of the famous director David Lynch, Netflix made a gift to the numerous fans of the indefatigable surrealist. The streaming giant has posted on its portal Lynch's new, the 17-minute short, "What Did Jack Do?" In it, a detective (played by Lynch) interrogates a Capuchin monkey named Jack, who may have committed the murder. Both are sitting at a table in a cafe in a provincial train station. Both wear similar dark suits and white shirts with solid ties. The abrupt and biting dialogue is in the style of old cool American noir. There are cups of coffee on the table and hopefully it's damn good coffee. Lynch acted in the film as an one man-orchestra. He wrote the script, staged and directed the film, edited it, and wrote the song that sounds in the finale. And maybe he even sang. And he might have given the monkey the voice. It's very weird, strange, funny, atmospheric, in one word, Lynchesque 17 minutes. So, what did Lynch do? The short strongly reminded me that it was time to watch Lynch's magnum opus, Twin Peaks. And I did :)
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