It totally confuses you, until you accept to understand it

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2007)

According to a wide bunch of people, David Lynch's movies are mostly based on non-sense fantasies and dreamworld trips more than on really intriguing, deep and smart plots. Approaching this movie, I was trying to understand whether what "people" think is true or if it only reflects a lazy approach to cinema, where everything is not clear should be revealed brightly at the end of the plot, with a wonderful and heartbreaking twist. This is not the case. The story is so linear and simple, but it appears this way only if you are able to reconstruct and give a sense to every single scene. Anyway, this is not the classical movie where a story is broken into pieces which are then mixed ad-hoc, allowing you to understand everything only at the last scenes. Here there is more: you have to think, to watch with your eyes, with your brain and, of course, to restart the movie from the beginning more than once. Then, even if everything appears to be clear, you must use some of the remaining scenes you didn't consider before to complete the engaging puzzle you are trying to solve, and finally reach a state of satisfaction and of admiration for a great movie and a great director.