This story discusses several plot-critical deaths in David Lynch movies; as such, spoilers abound beyond this point.
It’s hard not to get self-conscious talking about the redemptive power of love. But when David Lynch died this January, I—like thousands upon thousands of others—could not stop thinking about how one of the artists most attuned to human cruelty had also argued so forcefully, and so convincingly, that there was something beautiful lurking just beneath and just beyond us….

