This movie makes your own dreams seem boring...

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2002)

I've watched this film about 13 times. And at least 5 of the times I've seen it with other movie buffs where we stopped and discussed after every single scene. This movie makes it all worthwhile... I have never seen such a great portrayal of a person's psyche... To all of you who dislike the movie, because it makes you feel a numbness, I can assure you it's because you haven't stopped and thought about the movie, if only for 10 minutes.
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The first 1½ hour is Diane Selwyn's dream / soon to be dead - thoughts. Every single scene displays her inner demon's, her broken heart and her jealousy! The many excellent cross references between the dream and the real story, is what makes it all so relevant and brilliant. Furthermore David Lynch makes a connection between death and dreams - symbolizing that there is movie to the dreams as there is more than meets the eye. This IS far beyond the very easy to access storyline in Memento, as one mentioned in an earlier comment...
Notice in the first part of the movie how Lynch uses the same rooms and buildings in different scenes and as different locations, which makes it clear for us that it's a Dream world. The way he uses accessable yet deeply personal symbols for death, the guilt of killing, bigotry and dreams and hopes not fulfilled.
A dream of a movie... 10 / 10