#alteritiestv

[Eyes Wide Shut is not a film about] a couple who get seduced into fantasizing and then, just before getting lost in this abyss of all­-consuming desire, they control themselves and step back.

Just as the characters in Lynch’s films must endure the realization of their fantasies without respite, so must the spectator of these films. 

In making up and flaunting her romantic, imaginary scenarios ..she also flaunts, then, their stagey, cardboard character, the fact that behind this excess of visibility she remains invisible. Stella's "excess visibility" must be understood in these terms.

In Lost Highway, Fred suspects that Renee’s previous life involved ..some secret … place of … obscene enjoyment. ..Fred, … sentenced to death for the murder … of Renee, … transforms into another person (Pete) in his prison cell.

This film is about her coping with trauma by taking responsibility for what she is for others