Don't bother unless you like drugs.

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2002)

Well, maybe not drugs. I'll explain that later.
One time I was looking at a personalized license plate that I couldn't figure out. I drove behind the car and pondered. It hurt my mind. I can't remember what it was anymore, but it plagued my thoughts for a long time afterwards. I decided then and now that I was going to create a personalized license plate that LOOKED like it meant something, but it didn't, thus creating confusion and pain in the onlooker.
I think Lynch had the same idea with this movie.
Many people have written comments to explain this movie, but I think the human mind must find an explanation to things it can't understand, and there were so many random elements in the film that some parts of it HAD to fit together. But then there were the elements (about 2 hours of the film) that didn't need to be there. There were the elements that were artistic but meaningless. Something like the elephant who could paint. Unless you like abstract art, stuff that ONLY provokes thought, then don't watch this. Personally I think thought is only a path to a conclusion, and this leads only to confusion, which doesn't make it thought to me. So many elements in the film were just needless and I think stuck in there to make you think, but didn't really mean anything. There were so many ideas that I had that I had to throw from my mind to get the real storyline.
So if confusion, as I imagine, was his goal... 10 stars. But as a movie that I paid to see? Zero.