A love story mystery where multiple viewings are required and enjoyable

Rating: 9/10 (28 June 2013)

This is noir Hollywood story from Director David Lynch baffles logic at times, seems creepy and normal at others, and never lets you off the hook. Mesmerized by Naomi Watts characterizations, this may be the best female acting I've ever seen.... ever! The mystery is solvable but only after multiple viewings and those who claim otherwise must be lying! The love story and angle that is revealed is what really drives the film.
This may be my favorite Hollywood genre - point of view storytelling.
Now the weird characters really will throw you off... I believe that's the point as you look at them and are fixated by their strange appearances, timing of their deliveries, confused nature of who they are as much as their meaningfulness to the plot.... very strange. In fact if some of those issues were resolved, I'd rate this a 10.
The cowboy? The normal looking man describing his nightmare to his psychiatrist at the diner? The movie execs who at one point talk with Italian accents then speaking of "the girl" seem like petulant Americans more than gangsters... and don't get me started on the midget in the wheelchair in the air chamber than one can only assume was for germ-free purposes.
You'll figure out what you need to but it could become an obsession!