First hate, then love, Obsession final

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2003)

This movie is first to be hated. It is in bit and pieces. All the pieces are intriguing and lurking in your head for some meanings. I first hated it because it keeps coming back haunting me. I just could not stop myself from finding some meanings for this film. I hated it when a movie makes me work. I especially hated movies that made me watch them more than once.
And then, after sleeping on it and watching it a few more nights, everything started to come together. All the pieces started to fall in the right places one by one. *****POSSIBLE SPOILER AHEAD***** 1)the fantasy-like opening dancing scene 2)the second scene of falling onto some blood red pillows and bed sheets 3)and then a full hour of story telling in a style of a small town girl's dreaming fantasy 4)and the final hour which had all the elements of the first hour reappear again in opposite directions 5)the main characters, the blue key, the blue box, the accident scene, the boogie man, the cowboy and more first appeared in wonderland after Alice encountered them in reality
The main character (Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn) went from a fantasy world of innocence and beauty to the real world of misery and pain we all live in. We all have our secret fantasy of the world around us. More we face the harsh reality of the real world, more desperate we are to fantasize a dream world for us to hide in. Dreams that will make us forget about pain and unsolvable problems. Dreams of being well-received for the care we give to someone we love (Betty's care for Rita). Dream of punishing for people that are bad to us (Adam Kesher, Camilla Rhodes's new love). Dream of good luck and achievement and explanations for failures (Betty's audition and Cowboy's hostility). I started to love this movie, love the director and his success to show us how we are all in desperation to make fantasy of our own world and the others to the moment we die.
Finally, the obsession. David Lynch, the director first make you hate him by throwing you all the sensual elements and a confusing plot. Then he laughed at you in your dreams for not figuring it out and for calling him stupid. Finally you started to know what he is trying to do, remembering all the purposeful hints he has given you along the way, you start to marvel his brilliance. More I think about the main character more the word obsession and desperation being implanted in the my mind. David Lynch presented his characters to us in a way that is both natural and vivid. Emotion, desire, charm and pain are portrayed to their finest. David Lynch has the power to make star out of talented actresses. David Lynch made you blush thinking about the dream lover in your fantasy.