Originally Posted by elphenor

I couldn't tell how serious the movie's themes are meant to be taken

is this a serious commentary about how sex and violence is used in mass media to "open us up" to suggestion?

or is Lynch having a bit of fun with a surreal visual depiction of these ideas about how mass media influences us

not knowing anything about Lynch or film in general I wouldn't be able to contextualize it, additionally it's difficult to divorce oneself from viewing the movie as someone living in 2018 where violence and sex in media is well worked politicized ground vs. the early 80's

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.