The Architecture of David Lynch by Martin Richard

Author:Martin, Richard [Martin, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472520234
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2015-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

A Less-Than-Perfect Radio

“A good radio,” according to Le Corbusier, is an American “national virtue.”26 For Lula, however, the radio is an unwelcome intrusion into the sealed world of the road trip. Driving through sterile flatlands, she scans several stations, only to encounter increasingly disturbing tales of illness, murder, necrophilia and pollution. Lynch cuts between the rotating dial and Lula’s growing anguish, before she hits the brakes and leaps from the car complaining: “I’ve never heard so much shit in all my life!” The car radio might be considered an essential fixture of the American road trip, offering companionship, regional quirks and important news updates as a driver traverses the continent. In Jean Cocteau’s Orphée (1949), moreover, the car radio emits coded messages from another world that take on the quality of abstract poetry. In a sense, Sailor and Lula’s radio performs the same service. The elliptical reports it broadcasts merge into a grotesque communication from an alternate universe, a language that Lula, in particular, refuses to comprehend:

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