Feb 22 2025 96 mins 2
Greetings, audient!
David Lynch passed away, and Sagi insisted on embarrassing his memory and us by making a tribute pod.
Of course an oeuvre analysis is not Tossers style, but we found a nice angle in comparing his The Lost Highway with David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.
Both movies deal in the impasses and monstrosities of masculine desire, a shared theme that reveals a deep, informative, difference between the two directors, each using the literary device of the double in his own film, but in each director's own unique way, unique language.
Jake saw this difference in the light of Nietzsche's old distinction, from The Birth of Tragedy, between the Apollonian and the Dionysian; Sagi suggests that Lynch to Cronenberg is like dream to trauma.
We unpack this huge set of knots, and toss many more strands into the air besides.
And there's a beautiful Nietzsche quote at the end! So...
...have a listen.
Stars: Beast & Sovereign; Pervs 'R Us; Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais.
