Not your standard shallow Hollywood product...

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2001)

I was dragged along to see this movie by a friend. I had no idea what it (or Lynch) was about. If I had had an idea I wouldn't have been contemplating going to sleep after 45 minutes as was the case. I thought this was just a drawn out, boring mess. It definitely had some brilliant moments, the audition, the singer at the Silencio club, the love scene...but at the end of the movie I still thought it was pretty much crap.
Then, after thinking back over the movie for a long time some things started to make sense and now I really want to go back and see it again. Unlike most movies, you go away from this one thinking about it for days. Before reading the comments here, my first impression (as someone else here also concluded) was that this was Camella's dazed fantasy as she was gradually recovering from her amnesia to realize the horrible reality of what she had done to Dianne. After all, it was Cemella who opened the blue box, symbolizing her realization of reality again and Betty, at that same moment, disappeared. But maybe that's another clever aspect of the movie...maybe you can interpret it as a product of either woman's imagination...
I'm sure the second viewing will make things a little clearer...I'll actually be paying attention next time! If you like something different from the standard shallow Hollywood product, go see it...yes, it is too long...but be patient...