It's David Lynch's birthday – the famous artist opened Monday – but we received the gift. Netflix's latest arrival is a 17-minute short film called What did Jack do? written, directed, and edited by Lynch.
Netflix listings What did Jack do? under "dramas," "crime dramas," "mysteries," and "experimental movies," and is described as "offbeat" and "cerebral." If it can help, I can lay out your basic premise: An investigator (Lynch) is stuffed with a monkey dressed in a suit tied to a murder charge, a crime committed at the train station where the investigation is underway with a closure. The black-and-white look of the film, which is muddy with the grain in the image, reminds us of Lynch's original feature, 1977 Eraserhead.
While all of that is true, it fails to include the context of this bizarre activity. Lynch puts the monkeys in the field, and the monkey returns fire with an abundance of sass. Adopted as Jack Cruz plays himself, the development addresses the same invisible effect Syncro-Vox, which you may know better from the old ones Late night with Conan O & # 39; Brien a little there Conan “interviewed” celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently not a CG monkey, Bob Dunn's Animal Services is listed on the credits as providing veterinary trainers with the product.
Here is a sample of a hard-core noir-type chat:
Jack: Are you a strong arm guy?
Investigator: Don't say that.
Jack: I just did.
Investigator: Well, there is no Santa Claus.
Jack: I won't be here for Christmas.
Their backstory is in full order, as you can see, and I'm still not entirely sure what the motive is except for the killing, the love inside, and the true value of the animals (although Jack and a, um, to download the Toototabon hen is the only one we actually see). The only person What did Jack do? In addition to the detective there is a waitress played by Emily Stofle, a character who is also Lynch's wife. And the film also has a song, "The Real Fire of Love," written by Lynch and his longtime colleague Dean Hurley. This all comes together to be … well, a lot.
While What did Jack do? recently released on Netflix, it's not new in seconds – the end credits are "© 2016 Absurda: Year of Monkey." (Absurda is listed as "David Lynch Company," apparently named after A 2007 short film of his, and 2016 was the year of the monkey on the Chinese calendar.)
What did Jack do? released in November 2017 at Fondation Cartier pour l & # 39; Art Contemporain, a museum of modern art in Paris that has produced a short film. And it turns out that Lynch was working on it in early 2014, when he was in the middle of production for the third season of the season Two Peaks. He presented the project in this interview in December 2014 Keeper, saying, "I love to create stuff and this is done with a baboon film." (Lynch is also known as a filmmaker and filmmaker.) He continued, "I'm working with a monkey named Jack and I & # 39; ll come out sometime.
I enjoy that, then.
