David be demented

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2001)

Just a quick one to say that I think this film has a lot in common with John Waters' Cecil B. Demented as both films make a point demonstrating the futility of the director's role in the production of a film in Hollywood.
Waters illustrates this pretty obviously with his gang of movie-terrorists barging in theaters where «family-oriented» or «feel-good» movies are shown with ironic mentions like: Patch Adams/the director's cut.
Lynch however, uses his (creative) power as a film director to destroy all the cinematographic and narratives conventions that have been constructed by the industrial film production companies, mainly Hollywood majors; that's why he must have needed European funding to back this one.
Hollywood has accustomed us to go see a movie for it's story, it's plot. And Lynch, less in-the-face than Waters but still pretty harshly, is saying F*** off!!!