Watch it again and again

Rating: 10/10 (5 March 2003)

MAJOR SPOILER ALERT If you have not seen this movie already, I urge you NOT to read on as this review will ruin the experience for you.
If you did not like this movie, it's either because you should stick to movies such as Pearl Harbour. Another could be that you just did not try to understand the movie. A real movie lover will love this ovie as it offers a major challenge. The challenge is to understand this movie by sort through the clues that are given to you. Some clues bear no meaning, so do. As happens in our dreams.
The story actually begins when Noami Watts' character wakes up as Diane. (not Betty). This movie is a story of obssesion.
The first part of the movie, Diane dreams that she is Betty, an aspiring actress that comes to Hollywood to be an actress. Yes, many weird things happen. She falls in love with the amnesia plagued stranger - Rita - and they go off on a quest to find Rita's identity.
THEN, Diane wakes up. Now Diane (which is the dead girl in the bed when Betty and Rita climb in a house through the window - She dreams about her own death), she is obssessed by Camilla. They where both actresses and fell in love, Camilla eventually dumps her for a movie director. So Diane cannot bear the pain, she hire a contract killer to kill Camilla, because she is obsessed and jealous.
Diane wakes up and the combination of everything gets to her. She hallucinates that her grand-parents come in form under the door and go after her, and then she shoots herself. At this point, this lady has lost her mind. That is the movie. Now the way to understand the movie is to Watch it Again. Once Diane wakes up, pay attention to every little detail that you see on the screen. Because when Diane wakes up, that is reality. Sure, we are suggested to a few flashbacks, but the informartion in these flashbacks is crucial. That information explains the unexplained elements of the first part.
We all know that things that happen to you during the course of your day, can come back in your dream in different circumstances. Here are a few examples. When Diane is contracting her assasin in the DINER, the waitresses' name is BETTY. The blue key? That is the key that the assasin will give to Diane once the deed has been done. Did you get the cowboy? I did not think so. It's very stupid...when Diane is at the supper party with Camilla, the director and whole bunch of other people, Diane glances through the room and a man in a cowboy hat walks by... and that's how a man with a cowboy hat ends up in her dream.
I won't spoile it all for you, because the beauty of this movie is to find all these little unexplained details and associate them with their meaning. Most commenteers on here have not given this movie a fair chance. You need to watch this movies several times before getting everything - and that is what i call art.
No, this movie is nothing like Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks, but is that not a good thing?
I am not trying to say that the poeple that have given bad reviews are idiots that do not know movies, but I think that real movie lovers are missing out by not watching this movie over and over.