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I have a feeling Fred is thinking the same thing. In the worst moments of my life, I find myself only gradually discovering that that’s what they are. There’s the dumbfounded way in which Pullman’s hipster doofus Fred reacts to it all, like he’s constantly ten seconds behind realizing how bad things have gotten, which is a feeling I can both relate to and dread experiencing again. There’s Blake’s performance, which is convincing enough to prejudice a jury. There’s the monumental horror-image aspect, of course, and the character’s not-unrelated resonance with other Lynch monsters. I’ve thought a lot about what makes this scene so unnerving in the 20+ years since I first saw it. We may know we’re watching something frightening, but Fred doesn’t, not yet. Nevermind that all the music and party chatter has faded out and all we hear beneath the dialogue is the proverbial ominous whoosh. Nevermind that this guy is saying they met at Fred and Renee’s austere house, where an unknown intruder has been breaking in to film them as they sleep and then dropping off the videotapes at their front door. Nevermind that he’s had nightmares about his wife Renee, whom he can no longer satisfy sexually, in which she had this man’s face. Our hero’s an avant-jazz saxophonist it’s possible this isn’t the oddest person he’s met this week. The Mystery Man states the facts of their past encounter with confidence, and Fred brushes them off with a smile. He’s asserting that they’ve met, forcing Fred to either rack his brain for the memory or contradict a total stranger. He’s not asking if they’ve met, already an awkward bit of party conversation on its own. You always see this line, when quoted, with a question mark, but his diction says otherwise. As a director, Lynch is to ambient room tone what Martin Scorsese is to gangsters listening to “Gimme Shelter.” Evoking a sense of space, and what it’s like to be within four particular walls (curtains optional), is a major part of his project. They’re inviting, to me anyway, and it is not my custom to go where I am not wanted.įrom the Red Room in Twin Peaks to its blue counterpart Club Silencio in Mullholland Drive, David Lynch has created many of these spaces.
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But there’s weird, cold comfort in those spaces. I’d eventually like to leave again, of course, which is usually what separates me from the people who do visit those places within the movies themselves. I want to feel the walls, tap the floor with my foot, smell the viscera. I’d like to be in Leatherface’s bone room, in the Overlook Hotel’s elevator lobby, in the bare wooden attic where the Cenobites kill Frank Cotton, in Scarlett Johansson’s black liquid void.
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If a horror movie I adore has a great scene set in a memorable enclosed space, my instinct, no matter how awful the things that happen in that space are, is to walk right into it. When I love a horror film, I want to live in it.