Double Your Pleasure

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2002)

Along with trying to keep up with the characters and the events, I was trying to choose between the two women. Then when they made love, I realized-- I wanted them both!
And later I decided this movie was simply two different stories, each equally true/untrue. Looking at them as dream story and a real story, or as objective reality and a psychotic's reality is too facile for my taste.
First a scary but happy story of Betty goes to Hollywoodland, meets a new friend, plays girl detective, knocks 'em dead in her audition, gets laid, solves the mystery of the blue box (almost), then--
Love betrayed, empty apartment, no career, low-life friends, humiliation at the party, hallucinations, judgment day, etc. Interweave some of the side characters and plot, throw in some symbols and ambiguities, bake at 425 for 2 1/2 hrs.
I'd love to see Lynch collaborate with Umberto Eco.