This morning we had a delivery from a coal yard. The young guy driving is rather unsettling and his dark brooding eyes, and beard and a face thats tainted with coal dust really reminded me of this scene from the latest Twin Peaks series. This guy never says a word either unless spoken to.
I wont waste time saying how unbelievably surreal and dark this series was, despite it being a sequel to an all ready famous original series. David Lynch seems to find horror in seemingly distant American images or old movie stereotypes. Images that are deep in our minds, or rather American minds. Sometimes these images are of every day places like a petrol filling station. And what goes on in a place like that when no one is there ?! Who knows ?
America seems to have a fear of the remote rural areas. Films often portray people getting stranded in the small town. Being such a huge country I guess the fear of not being able to travel comes out more in people ?
I think also as the character looks like a miner or someone very working class that this is also subconsciously chilling us. What if we are suddenly surrounded by people we cannot understand or fathom? People with past values who are now alien to us. These types of people are rapidly dying out before our eyes. This is something thats come up in my counseling. The changing of the guard.
I remember that show.
ReplyDeleteI think only "liberal" Americans are afraid of rural areas. They think everyone in a rural area is a backwards person because, you know, liberals are so sophisticates and smart. They also think that every person who lives in rural village voted for Trump, and every "liberal" (bless their little black hearts), hates Trump with a passion for God knows what reason? I can't fathom it really, they're insufferable.
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