Intriguing and fascinating

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2002)

I must admit I didn't get it, though I sensed some hints in the story. Anyway, that didn't hinder me from feeling it as a good, fascinating movie. I should have known from my own reaction ("what the ****, where do you find a place like that to rent, unless you are a movie star?", "look how wonderful her clothes and her make-up are after she's been through an accident"), that the first part was not in fact what appeared to be. Indeed everything seemed too good to be true and Lynch certainly doesn't do blunders.
I think MD has a thorough, solid skeleton, the script is very well written and the whole movie seems to me very complete and round. Better than Twin Peaks. Especially after reading the spoilers :-) everything seems to make sense and to be at its own place. I will watch it again tonight. But I am not going to decipher all the symbols in there. I wonder what kind of mind do you need in order to write a script in which every object, line, light, and so on has a meaning and a link to other things. Either a very organized or a deranged one.
I wouldn't compare it to "Vanilla Sky" (as somebody did here). That is an interesting movie but unfortunately completely spoiled by a stupid explanation in the end. Which fortunately MD doesn't do.