To those who did not take the time to understand:

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2002)

You who panned this movie saying it made no sense, or had no coherent story. you who do not take the time, nor have the patience to properly understand.
Do not insult brilliance because it does not strike you as such. This movie, this magnificent piece of cinema, is brilliance.
To those who say there is no story, the story is plain to see if you would simply take the time to watch the time changes as the symbols present them to you. Watch the paino, watch the blue key.
To those who say it makes no sense, the symbolism is your blue key for the box of your mind. You must simply turn it to unlock it. In this case turning the key is synonymous with taking the time to look at it.
I was lucky enough to have a friend who understood it with which to throw back and forth some comments after watching.

*SPOILERS*
The movie starts as a cliche of all hollywood films. Bad acting and all. Winky's. The waitress named Diane. A random man is killed by a phantasm. All in black, pehaps death yes? The reaper. The starry-eyed newcomer blindly stumbles into the realm of show business and quickly works on making a name for herself. "This is the girl." The green couch in the limelight of hollywood. The Director's couch. Betty sleeps with Rita.
The start.
The Club Silencio. The Blue haired woman. Blue. Blue Key. Blue Box. The Blue Box from Betty's purse. Rita has the key to the Box betty holds, locked, closed from the world. Blue mist. A dream? An Illusion? Pre-recorded. Over used. Cliched. (It Links up!) Alex doesn't want Camilla Rhodes. She isn't right for the part. "This is the girl." Anger, home. He fights the system. He is destitute, rejected. The Cowboy calls. He knows everything, but reveals nothing. He knows hollywood. He is the hero who saves the day and rides off into the sunset, just like in the old days. He is hollywood of old.
The Turning point.
The scorned lover. Rita/Camilla makes it big. Betty/Diane and Rita/Camilla make love on the green couch. The Director's couch. Betty/Diane is sleeping her way to the top. Rita/Camilla leaves her, only to fall in love with a director. Used by the corruption of hollywood. Betty/Diane has her killed. The Blue Box in a brown paper bag, dropped by the black man, the reaper, the corruption. Dreams crushed. Stolen by the system. The old couple, home morals, innocence, come from the box and laugh at Diane in her most desperate hour, while she lies defeated and on the brink of destruction. Everything gone, the woman she loved used her as a stepping stone to the top, now dead by her hand. Desperate, she pulls the trigger. Death. The duality of the man in black becomes apparent, both as the reaper, and the destroyer of dreams, the horrible reality of all that is hollywood.
*END SPOILER*