David Lynch‘s The Straight Story opens with a view of a starry night sky.
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The spirit who understands the precise nature of the relationship all those in his consciousness have with death and loss.
The real Alvin Straight traveled hundreds of miles from Iowa to Wisconsin on a tractor lawn mower. In Lynch’s symbolic hands this becomes a mythical odyssey through a haunted autumnal world.