I think this is more comparable, and fails next to, one of Lynch's movies, where traditional narrative is not so much of an issue. It seems that everything is happening to the protagonist and not so much within her and not within her - which I think is a flaw.
Reasonable alternative reading but Lynch notoriously hated his movies being distilled to some reductive "interpretation". Men has an extremely traditional narrative: Trauma, try to get away, pursued by threat. Mulholland Drive has no tracks or brakes.
I didn't like men, but calling it propaganda is just dumb. Like you could make the same argument against there will be blood, or any movie with an underlying ideology. Just because you might disagree with the point of the movie, doesn't make it propaganda my dude.
No, you can't. That's exactly the point. Men is superficial and myopic. There Will Be Blood doesn't have a predetermined, generic bumpersticker for a theme. The former jettisons character and story for ideology. The latter does not.
@@readtotheend that's all well and good, but nothing you just described has anything to do with propaganda. Being superficial and myopic doesn't make something propaganda. There can also be well-written propaganda. And there's lots of great movies that disregard story and character in favor of metaphor and theming, and 'the point'. Like the Holy Mountain for example. It's just whatever the filmmaker decides to focus on. It might not be for you, but that doesn't make it propaganda.
I think this is more comparable, and fails next to, one of Lynch's movies, where traditional narrative is not so much of an issue. It seems that everything is happening to the protagonist and not so much within her and not within her - which I think is a flaw.
Reasonable alternative reading but Lynch notoriously hated his movies being distilled to some reductive "interpretation". Men has an extremely traditional narrative: Trauma, try to get away, pursued by threat. Mulholland Drive has no tracks or brakes.
I didn't like men, but calling it propaganda is just dumb. Like you could make the same argument against there will be blood, or any movie with an underlying ideology. Just because you might disagree with the point of the movie, doesn't make it propaganda my dude.
lmao, it's naked anti-male propaganda.
No, you can't. That's exactly the point. Men is superficial and myopic. There Will Be Blood doesn't have a predetermined, generic bumpersticker for a theme. The former jettisons character and story for ideology. The latter does not.
@@readtotheend that's all well and good, but nothing you just described has anything to do with propaganda. Being superficial and myopic doesn't make something propaganda. There can also be well-written propaganda. And there's lots of great movies that disregard story and character in favor of metaphor and theming, and 'the point'. Like the Holy Mountain for example. It's just whatever the filmmaker decides to focus on. It might not be for you, but that doesn't make it propaganda.