David Lynch did far more than just make “weird” movies, given how moving his work could be (see The Elephant Man and The Straight Story), and because even his strange films (like Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me) had exceptionally insightful things to say about certain realities. Nonetheless, his eccentric stylistic choices made him stand out as a filmmaker, so much so that the term “Lynchian” now exists.
Essentially, if a movie is Lynchian, it means it has the…