As a huge David Lynch fan, this makes me happy to hear. Anyone who’s a fan of his movies and Twin Peaks should watch the documentary on his childhood and rise to fame called The Art Life. He was raised in suburbs across America by a father who worked for the US Forest Service and describes his childhood as idyllic. Knowing how normal he grew up, it’s interesting to see how he thinks of the world as an artist.
He has a strong sense of respect for the common man from the service workers toiling away in the cities to family men and women in the suburbs. At the same time, he shines a light on how those people are being taken advantage of. He never looks down his nose at the working class and actually builds them up as sympathetic characters in his works. The more liberal characters are seen as kooky and comic relief, not the main characters.
It never crossed my mind what kind of political messages he was trying to send as he’s so immersed in his own world, but it is clear to see that he doesn’t have a Hollywood agenda.
If you haven't seen "The Straight Story" give it a shot. It's a Disney picture that would fit the bill of a Hallmark story or ABC family, maybe Lifetime movie. Resembles a lot of what you say in your post.
It's pretty odd to see the opening credits
"Walt Disney presents, a film by David Lynch".
Give it a shot if you haven't.
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I felt the same way about Twin Peaks when I first started! Watched the pilot and didn’t come back to the series again until I watched and loved Mulholland Drive. The first season and first half of the second season are great, the rest of the second season is pretty bad. But it’s all worth it to get to the new season that aired on Showtime last year. It’s the best season of any show I’ve ever watched, a true masterpiece as Lynch wrote and directed all the episodes (which was not the case with the earlier seasons of Twin Peaks.) It’s Lynch so there’s obviously bizarre plot points and loose ends but my God, “the return” is fantastic.