but no one else is really able to do that, since lynch came of age in 1950's montana, and a lot of his work seems to hint at the intrusion of dark, outside forces of modernity into a idyllic order, causing it to lose hold of its reality.

directors who grew up later or in more jaded environments aren't going to understand this process, because they never experienced it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3656332&forum_id=2#33628083)