Subject: Re: 'Parents'
From: sexkittn@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Caldwell)
Date: 1992-05-01, 09:58
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,alt.tv.twin-peaks

I too thought Parents very Lynchian, which is not always a positive thing
for me. I loved TP but hate most of the movies, and Parents was more like
the latter, particularly in the enervating long-awkward-pause stakes (these
also irritated me in the final ep of TP).

It was a very odd film, combining (as Lynch often does) an obsessive sense
of dangerous undercurrents in seemingly sedate settings with a rather
saccharine view of suburbia which only seems partly ironic in intent.

The music was *great*, and Sandy Dennis was wonderful, but in the end it
didn't seem quite extreme or grotesque enough to achieve its ambitions.

xx Matthew