Awake again at some stupid time last night I was thinking that David Lynch's film "Blue Velvet" may express something of what I believe about objective and subjective realities; that they are distinct dimensions, perhaps almost completely independent of each other, maybe not even connected by any simple relationship of cause and effect, and that what our subjective reality looks like may bear little resemblance to objective reality.
So in "Blue Velvet" there are two realities; the white picket fence one with the robin and the blue velvet one with the gas mask etc. Which one is the subjective one, which one the objective one? I think that the film is "marred" slightly but fundamentally by its ending, which ties everything up with a neat knot. I think that his later films, Mulholland Drive, and INLAND EMPIRE, represent better the ultimately ungraspable muddle/intersection of the two.
Have to take year old son to school. Back soon! :smile: ...
