The Straight Story - David Lynch's "Most Experimental" Film & The Only One He Didn't Write Himself
THE ARC'S TAKE
We argue that David Lynch made his most experimental film by removing every tool he usually relies on — no surrealism, no dread-tricks, just a man on a lawnmower — and dread showed up anyway, because it turns out the weirdness was never the trick, it was him.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Lynch is the master of the eery, absurd, surreal dream film, but he himself says that his most "experimental" film is "The Straight Story," a film that's ostensibly about a kind, elderly gentleman slowly riding his lawn mower across the country to see his brother. It is a G-rated Disney film about a real…
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