« Complaints about our inability to read, interpret, or discern irony, subtlety, and nuance are as old as art. What feels new is the expectation, on the part of both makers and audiences, that there is such a thing as knowing definitively what a work of art means or stands for, aesthetically and politically. This strikes me as a blatant redefinition of art itself.»
Funny thing the author mentions this now that David Lynch is dead, people meme about his response of not expanding on why he considered Eraserhead his most spiritual movie but he was right. It was not up to him to give you a meaning, people scrambling their brains watching old movies and the first idiotic thought they have is "Is this political?"
