um......huh?

Rating: 5/10 (9 October 2001)

I'd like to go ahead and start out by saying that I saw this film amidst a good number of students from the Tisch Film School at NYU, and they don't get it, either.
This is because you aren't supposed to get it. The point of a non-linear narrative is that there is no actual story, just a general idea. From a filmmaking perspective, there are a lot of goodies here, absurdities that are genuinely funny, and I think this film reads best as a dark comedy.
It is definitely not hard to see where we make the switch from proposed TV pilot to forty minutes of wierdness. The last part of the film sees the characters switch roles, and also sees the story (well, ok, the quasi-story) overlap itself a couple of times.
The acting is fine, and Lynch has a key eye for making his film artistic and clean looking. But there's a lot of stuff in here that's just off-beat to the max, pure David Lynch stuff, that shouldn't make sense unless you're on acid, basically, because in isn't supposed to make sense in any natural way.
A good movie to see if you don't mind the fact that there isn't a point to the plot.