Down the rabbit hole with David Lynch: David Lynch’s Rabbits
“In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain. . . three rabbits live with a fearful mystery” Thus begins the script for David Lynch’s Rabbits.
Surreal and disturbing, Rabbits by David Lynch is a master course in mood and atmosphere. Couched as a one-room sitcom, complete with a canned laugh track and applause, Rabbits follows the relationship of a working class family of anthropomorphized rabbits living in a sparse urban apartment. The conversations that they hold are out of order and disjointed, causing the viewer to lean into the story in an attempt to unlock the dark story underlying the seemingly banal sitcom structure, although Rabbits its self is anything but banal.
This is not the first time that Lynch has explored dark underbelly of society, perhaps most noticeably in his 1986 film Blue Velvet, and again in his Television series (and it’s prequel film) Twin Peaks. With the heart of a true artist, Lynch invites us again and again throughout his work, in a manner which can not be denied, to dig deeper, to peer past the surface façade of life and to explore the depths of both art as a form of expression and thus of the human condition it’s self.
Lynch’s Rabbits appear briefly in his 2006 film Inland Empire, and there have been incomplete versions of the series uploaded to YouTube by others in the past, but now Lynch himself has been recently uploading portions of Rabbits to his new YouTube channel David Lynch Theater. You can take a look below to see what it is all about, and even if it turns out in the end to not be of your taste, Rabbits is definitely what I feel to be one of those Things Everyone Should See At Least Once. #TESSALO
