A NEW NARRATIVE SPIRAL FOR LYNCH-MANIACS

Entering the official website for the last film by the American filmmaker David Lynch “Mulholland Drive“, a simple musical note seems enough to report us to the eerie world of the author of the hallucinating TV series “Twin Peaks”. “Mulholland Drive”, an American movie in co-production with the French Studio Canal, opens in Brazil this Friday after winning in Cannes the best director award and having been also nominated for the best director Oscar.

David Lynch’s mysterious world has become a gender in itself and doesn’t need explanation. One enters it without the compromise of unveiling mysteries and enigmas. It is enough to be lead through no-return labyrinths and, preferentially, not ask questions. Even because David Lynch is only an expert in deep diving into the soul mysteries, and not properly in emergencies.

The gender obviously has its own followers. There are fanatics for David Lynch in all idioms. One of the most curious internet sites is called ‘City of Absurdity’, at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2093/, which tries to unfold the mental engineering and the puzzles in Lynch’s films through a detailed intimate biography, starting by his pleasure in adventures in the Montana woods, supported by the father, a scientist for the Forest Service.

“Mulholland Drive” was also supposed to be a TV series. The pilot was refused by the American network ABC, which would have gotten afraid of the profusion of odd sequences, even after investing US$ 7 million in the project. A law battle was needed to recover the rights and all that had already been shot under ABC’s custody. It was certainly better having a complete movie by David Lynch, even though the narrative spiral puzzles more that explains, than a new TV series. The frustration of many Brazilian viewers who tried to watch “Twin Peaks” episodes on TV still remains, for they didn’t know the Brazilian network TV Globo decided to re-edit and shorten the series its own way.