Kyle McLahlan believes this movie David Lynch is best to start with

This week, Kyle McLakhlan stopped at Austin, Texas, at the southwest of the film festival where he sat down For interview with leading SXSW Studio Reece Feldman. The conversation soon addressed one of McLaklana’s most famous staff The late David Lynch who died this January. Feldman asked McLakhlan where he considered the best place for new viewers to start at Lynch’s work. “I was curious,” he said McLan, “if you think there is one totemic work that really introduces anyone to anything to (lynch).

McLakhlan called a few other Lynch movies, but eventually went with perhaps the most popular answer he could give:

“” Eraserhead is a very specific vision, almost nightmare. And you can obviously translate so much of his later images from “Eraserhead”. “Man -SLAN”, “Again”, “Special Film”, “Person” is the story he loved, and then filled such unusual characters, and then (my hero) is a story.

“Blue Velvet” takes a special place in the hearts of most of Lynch fans. This is his film that had the best balance between basic success and criticism. It was surreal, dark and controversial, but it was also relatively available compared to other works of Lynch. “Eraserhead” may have been surprised by the iconic classic that put the lynch on the cardBut “blue velvet” was a triumph that made it clear that it remains here.

“Blue Velvet” was a particularly important point in Lynch’s career, given that it was his first film after a disaster that was his adaptation of 1984 Dunes. Like Dune, the film was still the only real attempt by Lynch to make a big studio film. It harmed him when the movie crashed and burned, but it is also part of what made him realize that the main blockbusters were not his call. “Blue Velvet” was the return of Lynch to its roots; The film is represented by it, which perceives its own personal interests and ambitions, not in Hollywood.

It was an important point in McLaklane’s career. McLakhlan, who was leading in “Dune” Lynch It is necessary to prove to be proper as a leading actor in this movie. It is doubtful that McLaklan would be the leading show “Twin Peaks”, outdated lynch in 1990, if it were not for the success and public reputation that “blue velvet” gave him and Lynch.

“Blue velvet” may have been a hit, but at one time it did not appreciate everywhere. Some film critics, First of all Roger EbertThere was a serious problem with the nature of Isabella Raselini. Early there is a particularly brutal sequence, where Dorothy is raped by the unworthy french boo (Dennis Hopper) as Jeffrey (McLakhlan) watches her cabinets from within. Violence against women is the main theme that is repeated in the work of Lynch, which may have been at least partially inspired traumatic incident Lynch as a child.

Perhaps this is the aspect of Lynch’s work, which is most upsetting, even when with each new film became more and more understandable that Lynch studied these women -hchiya’s sexual abuse with sympathy, not anger. Especially with it “Twin Peaks” Next movie “, fire with me”, “ The sexual attack survivors wrote a lot about how much they saw themselves in the work of Lynch and appreciate it for it. With “blue velvet” and “twin peaks” (and “Lost Highway”, “Mulholland Drive” and “Internal Empire”), Lynch has never shying away from how bad it treats women, no matter how uncomfortable for the audience.

“Blue Velvet” also creates a distinctive feature of Lynch: a reflection of an idyllic small city with something deeply wicked in it. Lynch is often accused of being a cynic; That introductory sequence of “blue velvet” with the staff of a sweet suburban city followed by the far closed ear found in the grass, gave some viewers the idea that Lynch actually hates American life in the town and sees it all as a cheap facade.

I always thought it was a wrong explanation. My always was that Lynch loves pleasant lawns and hot coffee and cherry pies (don’t do it Remember the flaming hot chat). It was focused not on exposing the suburban dream as a counterfeit, but a study of how something so beautiful (for example, nature on “Twin Peaks”) and something so terrible (such as murder on “Twin Peaks”) may exist nearby. This is an unsolvable question that drives so much Lynch’s work, and it is “blue velvet” that you can see it most clearly at the exhibition.