Synopsis
To live is to die.
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
The Grandmother
1970 Directed by David Lynch
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I hate david lynch, what the fuck is “a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother” ??? bitch im gonna kill you
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i didn’t love this but i’m not kidding when i say that i think david lynch is one of the most fascinating people to ever exist, i’d give anything to have a conversation with him
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You haven't lived until you've seen a tiny chalk person pull an old lady out of a tree's asshole.
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David Lynch's head is one crazy beautiful place. This short film is an early nightmare turned into art. Poetry with chalky feelings and no morning dews.
How was this possible in 1970? When Hitchcock was still the guidance to follow suit --remember Coppola's underrated Dementia 13 (1963) or Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968)--, Lynch retreated to more primitive impulses and began the development of a new kind of horror.
I can even see the seeds of Goth giving birth to Tim Burton as if he was one of the characters originating from enormous alien plants, its tortured roots getting wet in the polluted air of a dark room.
Freud and Breton hand in hand, sliding to the abyss…
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Early Lynch that pretty much sums up the rest of his career, The Grandmother is an essential viewing in the contemporary Surrealist master's filmography. Blending a deranged form of animation with blacked out live action sets, the film is the epitome of a celluloid nightmare. While the content is nothing particularly horrifying, Lynch finds a way to unsettle and disturb with thick atmosphere and absurd imagery.
The great aspect about Lynch's brand of cinema is his surrealism can be taken solely at a surface level and to just experience the madness or if one should choose to dig deeper his films always have multiple interpretations to be found. This early example is more cut and dry with a couple of…
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let me offer a tip to those also looking for something short to watch before bed who settle on this: don't
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me: sir please... 30 day free trial of your brain
david lynch appearing in my dream from fifth dimension with a donut in his hand: tasty donut amazing
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Damn David Lynch! Creepy and interesting... I had no idea that this was how grandmothers were made.
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