While at times it maybe one of the most saddest movies ever made, this movie is always a special joy for me to watch, even after seeing it 26 times since I first saw it in the theater in 1980. This film is a jewel, a gem in black and white by an unpredictable David Lynch. But straight away we have to know it does not deal with the past. It deals with our modern world, with us. It reveals all our defects and shortcomings.
Human society is cruel and cruelty is natural to man.
We like seeing what we are not. We like watching what we could have been. We like scrutinizing what we have had the luck not to be. The being who is different is a freak and we enjoy gazing, gaping and staring at him. We do not care for the pain we may cause.