A broken Hollywood dream.

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2002)

Many reviewers say the movie starts as a normal story, but gets unexplainable at the end, with character shifts etc. But the actual character shifts are made in the first part of the movie (in Diane's dreams). In the last part (when Diane is awake) Lynch gives us the "real" or "actual" situation. We get to know where Diane got all the names, places and objects from her nightmarish dream.
Lynch didn't make a total unexplainable movie. He even made one of the most intelligent scripts of the last few years. There are many details that do make sence, but just not enough to make you say, you fully understand it (which I like).
But it's not only about the plot.
-There's the typical lynch humour (the espresso scene).
-The supurb soundtrack. -The atmospherec photography. -The references to his other movies (Twin Peaks, Lost Highway,...)
-The references to the Hollywood's Film Noire period (the poster of Gilda, the music, the close-up of the Sunset Boulevard streetname etc.)

It's even a mix of all different movie genres: film noire, thriller, horror, comedy (even slapstick humor), romance, cheap erotic movies,action, even western (the cowboy)...they're all there (and not by accident).

Above all this movie is a big f*ck you towards Hollywood. How everything is ruled by one or two mighty persons. How an actress can get to the top by not only using her acting skills. How a young, unexperienced actress with high hopes, can fall so low or in other words how the so called Hollywood "dream" can be broken.
10/10