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 No.15200>>15218 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

David Foster Wallace once wrote a piece about David Lynch. In the piece, he coined a new term: "Lynchian". Wallace described a Lynchian tone as "the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal."

He described a husband beating his 1950s housewife to death because she bought the wrong brand of peanut butter. "I told you to buy the JIF," he'd say as he's clobbering her to death. This, he said, would qualify as almost perfectly Lynchian.

I think "World Peace" enters into Lynchian territory. The YouTube clip shows a simple domestic scene. The women look like average suburban moms. They're relaxing on the couch. One imagines they might be discussing casserole recipes when we cut to them. But it slowly dawns on us that in the living room, with placid expressions on their faces, they're talking about the woman's transvestite son's genitals.

Despite the obvious subtext and the producers' hope to normalize this horror, the average person is totally disgusted. Nevertheless, the viewer is fascinated. We're drawn further into this. The sheer naked horror of what they're saying, the blase quality with which they're saying it, it creates this brutal paradox that almost rapes the viewer's basic sense of what is decent.

 No.15216

what's goin on big guy. you just tried to genre my show


 No.15218

>>15200 (OP)

Woah dude my mind is like totally blown.


 No.15219

your post is perfectly GRINCHian cuz you just ruined my day!!

you can take THAT to the bank


 No.15229>>15238

I don't get shit like "Dads". What's funny about asking a poor no name old actor how many of his friends died from alcoholism? It's just pointless cruelty.


 No.15238

>>15229

Moms/Dad was no never funny to me, I appreciated the production but it was not funny for me because it was obvious that the women/men, the actors in the videos were very much in on the joke and were instructed to act shocked or offended or confused. Rather, it is obvious that the women in moms weren't actually being made fun of by Sam & others, and spinning it as if they are saying "shocking" or "offending" things to these "moms actors" "to see how much we could get away with saying" just is not funny for me personally, as it is obviously 'for show' and either way, whatever spin, or context, it just is not funny.




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