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Nothing will die, she tells her son.
(Eraserheadbecame a cult sensation immediately.)
Ghostly clothes drift along a night highway.
A bloodied figure staggers in and out of the headlights of an overturned car.
Death bares its face, its mouth filling with blood.
Lynchs own raging against the dying of the light took the form of ever-increasing modes of narrative experimentation.
Something greater and more powerful can be accessed by abandoning or shattering them.
There is no life or death here for Lynchs protagonists, only an endless purgatorial loop.
But, as he would say, Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.
He could no longer direct movies on location.
He prepared fans for the possibility thatThe Returnmight be his final directorial credit.
But not his final project.
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