I've been thinking about this film for a year

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2004)

This is one of the most satisfying films I've ever experienced. David Lynch's masterpiece gives us so much to mull over. The guilt and the burden of jealousy, the haunting, unsatisfied ambitions that leave us feeling burned and broken, the way we have to carry ourselves through the debris of dead relationships, the strange sorts of revenge we wish upon those that cross us, all told through brilliantly through the lexicon of dreams. Walking around with his film in my mind was like opening a dark treasure. Boy howdy, that was good. Plus, lesbian kissing. At a book signing I asked David Foster Wallace what he thought of the film (Wallace has a nice essay on Lynch in his excellent book "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again") and Wallace put it quite nicely. He said that, after a few failed attempts, Lynch had finally succeeded at making a real David Lynch film. I think that may understate it a bit, but it falls pretty close to summing up my love of this film.