Here you got it simple

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 2004)

I changed my original review which was very critic to this one, after I watched the movie over (and quite attentively) for the second time. This is no doubt a great movie, which will keep you breathless for a couple of hours; probably one of the best film-noir ever made. However, -HOWEVER-, you will have to watch this film twice, no matter if you are the Kasparov of thrillers. You will have to, so enjoy the first view without much considerations whatsoever. And when you watch it for the second time, enjoy unveiling the very complex structure of events.
FROM NOW ON SPOILERS:
I do not agree with most of the people here who have been discussing for more than two years already about the difficulty in explaining the film; it's pretty simple: Diane has won a contest in Canada and comes to Hollywood with the best expectations. She becomes Camilla Rhode's lover. When the film begins she is starting to sleep and `processes' events in her dream, the way she would have wanted things to turn out. There are lots of symbolisms here, as there are in any dream, and trying to make out a perfect meaning for all them is a waste of time. I don't even think Lynch has done this: interpretations for symbolisms are `open'. After almost two hours film, she wakes up, and back to present time but not for long, because now she also starts to remember real events, so in the last half hour we come and go from present to past and from past to present, but everything now is real. Worth watch, no doubt, even considering I do not like many of Lynch's films at all.