Makes a dull story turn to exciting mystery

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2007)

The typical story of a nobody going to Hollywood in search of opportunity isn't that exciting and we've all heard that story enough times. But here Lynch makes it exciting in his suspenseful way and with the actresses he chose for the roles, Watts and Harring. When 'Betty' gets to Hollywood and she has great place to stay and a smashingly good audition I started to question the reality and was tempted to go to sleep at this point. But Lynch turns it around completely with all the hits that this is a dream world and in the end shows it to be only a fantasy. The reality is that she came to LA and failed miserably and were it not for the Diana's sexual interest in her and petty parts given her she would have either went packing back to Canada or ended up as a hooker. Who knows. Eventually Betty has Diana killed by a hit man out of jealous rage over her unfaithfulness. There are many spooky scenes throughout that will leave you wondering what the heck? Such as the cowboy, the old couple, the next door neighbor, the dark figure with the blue box. All of these are Lynch's way of hinting that this is all an evil dream. I saw this on regular TV which was heavily edited, and sadly missing some of the more 'light' and humorous parts in the movie such as after the hit man offs the guy in the office he then has trouble exiting the office cleanly with complicated action involving the lady in the next office and the vacuum guy and then the vacuum itself. Also was missing the full length of the cowboy scene which was simply knee slapping. So I had to go out watch to full 'real' version of the movie. You'll like this movie if you want something different from the typical predictable and thoughtlessness of the usual Hollywood Box Office.