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Blue Velvet is a profoundly conservative film in its morality

the message is that if you want peace and order in your comm...
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
180
Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness
  12/27/20
this is not a subtle theme at all. lynch makes it very clea...
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
...
Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness
  12/27/20
...
Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor
  12/27/20
scholarship
Tan Vivacious Tattoo
  12/27/20
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Bearded Fiercely-loyal Black Woman
  10/02/22
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Histrionic bossy international law enforcement agency
  10/02/22
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fighting supple nibblets
  09/09/26
what's Lost Highway about?
nofapping ultramarine home wrinkle
  09/09/26
180
Hilarious half-breed theater stage
  12/27/20
what was the message of the whole 'mommy'/ nitrous oxide thi...
claret heady jap
  12/27/20
my interpretation is that all of these things refer to perve...
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
youre doing great ITT
Hilarious half-breed theater stage
  12/27/20
good analysis. i agree with you re: BV. ultimately, however...
claret heady jap
  12/27/20
blue velvet's worldview seems fairly direct. its moral mess...
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
Credited exegesis
MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  12/27/20
Should I watch this tonight while drinking David lynch signa...
Dead church macaca
  12/27/20
yes, particularly if you haven't seen it in a while.
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
ricky did you quit cigs for like 8 days
Thriller legend stage
  12/27/20
Yeah I buy 2-4 loosies at a time from these minorities ar...
Dead church macaca
  12/27/20
hell yeah
Hilarious half-breed theater stage
  12/27/20
Great question
slap-happy immigrant
  12/01/24
I love the scene at the end when they see the birds on the w...
Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor
  12/27/20
...
Hilarious half-breed theater stage
  12/27/20
birds in the film come up a few times, such as when the girl...
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
also, when the Man in Yellow shows up at the Williams reside...
Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor
  12/27/20
the official authorities in the film are compromised from th...
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
...
Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor
  12/27/20
...
fighting supple nibblets
  12/27/20
...
gamers rise up
  12/27/20
...
Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness
  12/27/20
in previous human history like 95% of men instinctively unde...
gamers rise up
  12/27/20
...
exhilarant insanely creepy therapy
  12/27/20
op, 180 thread bro. you should do one on another DL film
Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness
  12/27/20
i'd have to re-watch it first. lynch's films are very detai...
ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol
  12/27/20
Feels like a historic thread
Dead church macaca
  12/27/20
...
Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness
  12/28/20
lynch is a pretentious faggot
Rusted crusty principal's office trust fund
  12/28/20
...
Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness
  12/28/20
...
Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness
  12/28/20
...
Dead church macaca
  09/09/26
it's kike garbage
demanding national mother
  09/09/26
Laws were created to achieve the same goal
nofapping ultramarine home wrinkle
  09/09/26
same w The Hitcher
exhilarant insanely creepy therapy
  09/09/26


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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:12 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

the message is that if you want peace and order in your community, you have to identify subversive elements like frank booth and literally kill them. these elements exist in a realm of evil which is beyond reason, and will always serve to corrode the safety and well-being of your people. the only possible response is to stop being a scared little boy (the main character) and to learn to confront and KILL evil. just shoot it dead.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627150)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:13 PM
Author: Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness

180

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627161)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:15 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

this is not a subtle theme at all. lynch makes it very clear over and over again what he means. eg, the kid's initial ruse to get into the lady's apartment was to pose as an exterminator. someone who eliminates pests and vermin. but he didn't do the job, and he was punished for his fraudulent act. his redemption didn't arrive until he corrected the fraud and killed the pests in real life. at that point, he became an honorable guardian of his town, and got the girl as a reward.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627180)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:34 PM
Author: Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627319)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:50 PM
Author: Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627440)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 11:49 PM
Author: Tan Vivacious Tattoo

scholarship

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41628366)



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Date: October 2nd, 2022 6:20 PM
Author: Bearded Fiercely-loyal Black Woman



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#45267638)



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Date: October 2nd, 2022 6:20 PM
Author: Histrionic bossy international law enforcement agency



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#45267642)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 7:14 PM
Author: fighting supple nibblets



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#50125573)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 8:11 PM
Author: nofapping ultramarine home wrinkle

what's Lost Highway about?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#50125706)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:20 PM
Author: Hilarious half-breed theater stage

180

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627211)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:35 PM
Author: claret heady jap

what was the message of the whole 'mommy'/ nitrous oxide thing

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627326)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:40 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

my interpretation is that all of these things refer to perversions of the natural order. frank booth is enacting an incest scenario with a woman whose actual family he has kidnapped and alienated from her. booth has no fixed or transcendent identity; he switches between 'daddy' and 'baby' in a disordered frenzy which he fuels using drugs and alcohol. he literally replaces the natural air of his environment with a different formula in order to carry out violations of nature.



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627374)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:44 PM
Author: Hilarious half-breed theater stage

youre doing great ITT

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627390)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:46 PM
Author: claret heady jap

good analysis.

i agree with you re: BV. ultimately, however, i have lost patience with esoteric moral commentaries, which seem distracting, energy-diverting, and counter-revolutionary in effect.

we need clarity and direct action.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627409)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:52 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

blue velvet's worldview seems fairly direct. its moral messaging is interesting because it depicts booth and his sick little cabal as a kind of emergent phenomenon. ie, like any species of parasite, their genesis is a kind of natural function, and hence, the role of the exterminator is one that good men must always be willing to assume.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627457)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:40 PM
Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus

Credited exegesis

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627874)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:37 PM
Author: Dead church macaca

Should I watch this tonight while drinking David lynch signature blend coffee and smoking cigs?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627353)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:43 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

yes, particularly if you haven't seen it in a while.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627386)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:46 PM
Author: Thriller legend stage

ricky did you quit cigs for like 8 days

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627408)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:17 PM
Author: Dead church macaca

Yeah

I buy 2-4 loosies at a time from these minorities around the corner

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627686)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:17 PM
Author: Hilarious half-breed theater stage

hell yeah

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627692)



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Date: December 1st, 2024 12:30 PM
Author: slap-happy immigrant

Great question

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#48398441)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:45 PM
Author: Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor

I love the scene at the end when they see the birds on the window sill, there's something moving and yet also disturbing about it.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627404)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:46 PM
Author: Hilarious half-breed theater stage



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627413)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:55 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

birds in the film come up a few times, such as when the girl describes her dream. they are depicted as spiritual messengers. they also kill and eat pests, and this is shown as a useful service which also serves a spiritual role.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627479)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:03 PM
Author: Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor

also, when the Man in Yellow shows up at the Williams residence, I took that to mean her father was corrupted or compromised somehow.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627550)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:08 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

the official authorities in the film are compromised from the inside, and don't actually show up until the main threat is dead. the girl's father isn't exactly corrupt, but he is ineffective, and he is fundamentally afraid to take action. that's another part of the film's moral framing - the work of eliminating evil can't just be outsourced to agencies like 'the police,' since evil can infiltrate those agencies. responsibility for extirpating evil sometimes falls upon the individual.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627582)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:13 PM
Author: Glittery turdskin fortuitous meteor



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627652)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:18 PM
Author: fighting supple nibblets



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627698)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:43 PM
Author: gamers rise up



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627893)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:44 PM
Author: Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627900)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:51 PM
Author: gamers rise up

in previous human history like 95% of men instinctively understood this, regardless of social caste or intelligence level

today? maybe 5% of men do

really makes you think

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627445)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 9:57 PM
Author: exhilarant insanely creepy therapy



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627490)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:15 PM
Author: Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness

op, 180 thread bro. you should do one on another DL film

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627670)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:19 PM
Author: ebony soul-stirring heaven pistol

i'd have to re-watch it first. lynch's films are very detailed and have a lot of particular symbols and events with narrative significance. i saw BV within the past week, so i can still recall a lot of those details.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627708)



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Date: December 27th, 2020 10:18 PM
Author: Dead church macaca

Feels like a historic thread

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41627697)



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Date: December 28th, 2020 7:36 AM
Author: Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41629226)



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Date: December 28th, 2020 7:42 AM
Author: Rusted crusty principal's office trust fund

lynch is a pretentious faggot

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41629230)



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Date: December 28th, 2020 10:52 AM
Author: Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41629816)



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Date: December 28th, 2020 12:21 PM
Author: Coral Swashbuckling Lay Messiness



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#41630410)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 6:15 PM
Author: Dead church macaca



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#50125426)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 7:15 PM
Author: demanding national mother

it's kike garbage

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#50125575)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: nofapping ultramarine home wrinkle

Laws were created to achieve the same goal

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#50125702)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: exhilarant insanely creepy therapy

same w The Hitcher

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4722092&forum_id=2#50125728)