Short Takes: The Ineffable David Lynch Moment - "Scissors"
I've spent the better part of the hour watching Lynch's short works, some I've seen, some not; but one of them is " Scissors " and I've got to single it out because it's one of those pieces of his that hits some emotional place of anguish and beauty (in me, anyway) that some of the more intense points in his feature work do. I have in mind the fever points in Blue Velvet when Jeffrey and Sandy start to unravel before the enormity of Frank Booth's crimes. Both of them just kind of go to pieces - I'd say out of nowhere, but there was a constellation of evil that brought them to this moment. It is utter trauma, but MacLachlan and Dern sell it so intensely, it's more rattling than anything Dennis Hopper does in the movie. He does this again in "Mulholland Drive" during the "La Llorana" scene. After everything Watts has been through, again there's this fever pitch of something like abject terror and a peculiar grace. Th...