My mom said, "This is the weirdest film I've ever seen." It was her first Lynch film, so I'm excited to show her others.
Both my parents grew up in small towns in the Midwest and my little brother (and myself for a bit). So it was a treat to watch with my family over the holidays.
A Straight Story is a great story that reminded me of Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, is it poked fun of, in an endearing way, farm life in the Midwest, something which is almost never shown in film or television. It has less of the David Lynch flair, but still very recognizable with the auteur’s thumbprint. It’s available via Disney, which is so interesting. The movie has amazing acting and the deer killing scene made my day.
The sounds with Mr. Lynch: sawing metal, a hum of industry, and a new prominent one: the hum of a lawnmower. It’s the simple things in this sweet life that David Lynch knew show up in this movie. There are also crazy coincidences, like being someone to nail a deer on the highway so many times in a row. Just “what if” scenarios that I believe were funny to think about for David Lynch, although he presents the idea with a more startling tone.
Lynch also shows how much easier it is to put an old person in peril? We feel for them. Why do we not have more movies focused on the elderly? It’s something that is firmly noted here.
It’s also a firm anti-war movie. It takes the time we wish we would and it grants sentiment for all political points of view to think about deeply about the cost of waging war.
The movie is excellent and Harry Dean Stanton makes the movie perfect.
