was it all just a dream.....

Rating: 9/10 (9 June 2002)

Before I watched this movie I read a review by Roger Ebert who said the best way to explain this movie is to look at it as a dream. It is a bunch of events that somehow interconnect and yet never make much sense. So I watched it and I didn't expect it to make much sense. I expected a fantastic looking film that would be confusing and somewhat frustrating. It is confusing, but somehow it is never frustrating. What makes this movie great is the same thing that would make a poem great, and that is this:
If one hundred people read a great poem, all of them would have a different interpretation of what it meant.
Well, that goes for this movie. It isn't frustrating because it is consistent in its surrealism. From start to finish the images and happenings are all quite bizarre(especially the last half hour). That is what makes it all so captivating, and the consistency provides each viewer the opportunity to try and piece it together. You don't have to, but for me it is like a puzzle, and I want to solve it. I have my own theories as to what it is all about, but I bet whatever you come up with will be completely different. That is what makes this movie so unique and gripping. Normally I wouldn't go for a movie like this, but when its this well done you can't help but fall under its spell. 9 out of 10.