The movie contains a collection of six films of David Lynch. As a general person who is not particular about choosing movie to watch and speaking of that, I genuinely do not know much about David Lynch and the kind of films he produces and also what this movie is going to be within watching trailer.
Overall, I would describe the movie as interesting, bizarre, and terrifying. Tone and colour of these films are mostly monochromatic which make them look like movies from late 1800s (if I am not wrong) even though I notice other movies released in the same year were produced in colour. I am not sure whether coloured films were expensive to make at that time or it was Lynch's intention, but it makes them unique from other films. The films with or without the sound, together with the tone and color, this ambient somehow make me feel uncomfortable and frighten while watching it. His collection of six films has a duration of 30 minutes and some are shorter than that from less than 1 to 5 minutes.
The first film of his collection is Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), it is just like what name said, 'Six Figures Getting Sick'. At first, I was confused because this film has a weird noise and it keeps repeating itself, I thought the movie had an issue or something for almost 5 minutes, but it did not. I believe the footage was meant to confuse me and it gave the idea of Lynch's movie style he made - strange, mysterious and gloomy. It was a great opening film.
The Alphabet (1968) was around 5 minutes long. It started with David Lynch introducing how the film, The Alphabet was going to be. He explained that it was based on Peggy Lynch's niece's nightmare where she repeated the alphabets while sleeping on the bed it the darken room. I like how he portrayed the feeling of someone having a nightmare very well. With music in the background that changed from scary to cheerful children's music but showing the girl spitting blood out of her mouth in the end. I was contrary and remarkable. This film really made me feel like I was trapped in a nightmare, I was scared and anxious while watching it. This was my favourite film in the collection. Though it was short, it caught my attention with clear introduction and what the director tried to present in his work.
The Amputee (1974) has the duration of almost 5 minutes. The film was about a lady with both legs amputated who was writing a letter while a nurse was helping with her stumps. I noticed that the lady did not speak her mind verbally when she was writing the letter, but she narrated in the film as a background voice. This gave me a break from watching and concentrating on the previous films. At first, it was calm and pleasing to my ears but not until the last scene where the nurse made her stumps bleed. The blood was leaked, and it kept flowing out of her stumps, but the lady did not feel any pain. To me, it gave a feeling of bizarre, alien, and unhuman. It was confusing.
The Grandmother (1970) and The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988), both were half an hour long. I feel like the difference between these two films was that The Grandmother had a dark and sorrowful feeling in it while The Cowboy and the Frenchman was weird and silly. Both films were strange and frightening in some scenes. The tones of these film were dark in The Grandmother and saturated in The Cowboy and the Frenchman, also, the acting was irregular. They made me feel uncomfortable.
The last one in the collection is Lumière and Company (1995). Reading from the description of this film, there were films which the duration was no longer than 52 seconds, no synchronized sound was allowed, and no more than three takes. The films seemed like random videos or footages captured by a street photographer. The films were mostly about people's lives in the past where the colour vision was black and white. The films were look so natural like there was no acting. Yet, it still had a creepy feel to it because of the monochromatic colour and how the camera was placed in an obvious spot and people could clearly see. It was like watching people mind their own business, and some of these films gave me the awkwardness. Honestly, it did a great job as a closing film in the collection.
All these six films I searched and found them on YouTube. If you are interested in arts and look for a movie with aesthetic to watch, or if you are exploring with different movie genre to watch, I would recommend this collection of films from David Lynch. But if you are just curious what his films or movies would be like, I suggest watching any of his on YouTube. The one that I watched after finishing this film collection was Rabbits (2002). It gave me an odd feeling, yet it was quite interesting to watch.
Overall, I would describe the movie as interesting, bizarre, and terrifying. Tone and colour of these films are mostly monochromatic which make them look like movies from late 1800s (if I am not wrong) even though I notice other movies released in the same year were produced in colour. I am not sure whether coloured films were expensive to make at that time or it was Lynch's intention, but it makes them unique from other films. The films with or without the sound, together with the tone and color, this ambient somehow make me feel uncomfortable and frighten while watching it. His collection of six films has a duration of 30 minutes and some are shorter than that from less than 1 to 5 minutes.
The first film of his collection is Six Figures Getting Sick (1966), it is just like what name said, 'Six Figures Getting Sick'. At first, I was confused because this film has a weird noise and it keeps repeating itself, I thought the movie had an issue or something for almost 5 minutes, but it did not. I believe the footage was meant to confuse me and it gave the idea of Lynch's movie style he made - strange, mysterious and gloomy. It was a great opening film.
The Alphabet (1968) was around 5 minutes long. It started with David Lynch introducing how the film, The Alphabet was going to be. He explained that it was based on Peggy Lynch's niece's nightmare where she repeated the alphabets while sleeping on the bed it the darken room. I like how he portrayed the feeling of someone having a nightmare very well. With music in the background that changed from scary to cheerful children's music but showing the girl spitting blood out of her mouth in the end. I was contrary and remarkable. This film really made me feel like I was trapped in a nightmare, I was scared and anxious while watching it. This was my favourite film in the collection. Though it was short, it caught my attention with clear introduction and what the director tried to present in his work.
The Amputee (1974) has the duration of almost 5 minutes. The film was about a lady with both legs amputated who was writing a letter while a nurse was helping with her stumps. I noticed that the lady did not speak her mind verbally when she was writing the letter, but she narrated in the film as a background voice. This gave me a break from watching and concentrating on the previous films. At first, it was calm and pleasing to my ears but not until the last scene where the nurse made her stumps bleed. The blood was leaked, and it kept flowing out of her stumps, but the lady did not feel any pain. To me, it gave a feeling of bizarre, alien, and unhuman. It was confusing.
The Grandmother (1970) and The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988), both were half an hour long. I feel like the difference between these two films was that The Grandmother had a dark and sorrowful feeling in it while The Cowboy and the Frenchman was weird and silly. Both films were strange and frightening in some scenes. The tones of these film were dark in The Grandmother and saturated in The Cowboy and the Frenchman, also, the acting was irregular. They made me feel uncomfortable.
The last one in the collection is Lumière and Company (1995). Reading from the description of this film, there were films which the duration was no longer than 52 seconds, no synchronized sound was allowed, and no more than three takes. The films seemed like random videos or footages captured by a street photographer. The films were mostly about people's lives in the past where the colour vision was black and white. The films were look so natural like there was no acting. Yet, it still had a creepy feel to it because of the monochromatic colour and how the camera was placed in an obvious spot and people could clearly see. It was like watching people mind their own business, and some of these films gave me the awkwardness. Honestly, it did a great job as a closing film in the collection.
All these six films I searched and found them on YouTube. If you are interested in arts and look for a movie with aesthetic to watch, or if you are exploring with different movie genre to watch, I would recommend this collection of films from David Lynch. But if you are just curious what his films or movies would be like, I suggest watching any of his on YouTube. The one that I watched after finishing this film collection was Rabbits (2002). It gave me an odd feeling, yet it was quite interesting to watch.