"Love, only in my dreams..as real as it may seem..it was only in my dream.."- D. Gibson

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2003)

"Just a dream, just a dream... all our plans and all our schemes, how could I think you'd be mine...? the lies I tell myself each time."
Haunting, Beautiful, Compelling, Addictive, Heartbreaking.

Genius

The film is equal parts film-noir mystery, camp Hollywood parody, comedy, drama, and most of all a love story-Hollywood style.
Of course, then David Lynch takes all these equal parts, adds a heavy dash of surrealism and a bucket of acid to serve up a masterpiece.

The best way to describe M.D. is..lucent dreaming, or the kind of intense dreams you have when you have a fever- part hallucination, part dream, part fantasy. Sleepwalking in your sleep.
There is not one wasted shot or misplaced direction in this film; everything falls into place masterfully. Of course, some elements are more (or less ) concrete than others, but even vagueness has its place in a film like this and is not just confusion for the sake of confusion( or b/c the writer/director had no idea how to resolve a troublesome plot element). No need to emphasize the importance of symbolism and totems in a film like this.
Some art or artists can speak to your on a cerebral level and still manage to inflame the imagination. Some art or artists bekcon you with words and images that flout logical explanation, but speak to you on a more emotionally immediate level; a visceral jolt, an intuitive understanding, an emotive, primitive response- that compels you to analyze, deconstruct and as the 'Cowboy' says " Think".
David Lynch shows his genius with this film- he does both. - A.N.