a complete masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2002)

David Lynch is the master of mystery.
This film must be viewed at least two times to even get a taste of how extraordinary it is. In my mind this is definitely the best film of the year and Naomi Watts deserved best actress and she wasn't even nominated.
David Lynch is the only director out there that really makes good mysteries that you really have to pay close attention to if you want to solve, he doesn't tell you at the very end the lead character is really dead or that the best friend turns out to be the villain, he makes you work, he doesn't hand you the solution, you have to find the solution by solving the mystery.
** Spoilers & Clues ** Many people think the car crash is a main event and they can't figure out what is real and not. The car crash never happened it's all a dream and I'm sure everyone's had a dream involving a car crash. At the beginning of the film we go into a pillow. We are in Diane/Betty's dream. The blue box is the escape from her dream, when club Silencio reveals that everything is an illusion we are taken into the blue box, therefore out of the dream. We are put into reality for a short time and than shot right out into flashbacks.
Notice the coffee cup and the robe that Diane has. When she goes onto the couch the robe is gone, she does not have her coffee cup and the ashtray that was recently taken is still there. We are now in past events. These are real, but flashbacks.
The whole dream sequence has a lot of significance and mostly portrays everything the way Diane wishes it was, which is what we do when we dream. When we go back to the coffee cup and Diane is in the robe we are back into the present and soon to the end. I don't want to give away everything, but that is the basic structure that will maybe make things a little less confusing and help you focus on other things that tell a lot more about the story. Also notice how Blue and Red play very significant parts in the film.
My interpretation of this is that Blue represents everything that is negative and completely an illusion, created only from the dream. Red seems to represent everything positive and everything that is associated with reality. Red and Blue mix together in club Silencio and that is when the dream ends. This film is amazing and to get to all the details this message would be ten pages long.