Absolutely mind blowing

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2002)

This movie is the perfect venue for David Lynch's style. He could go as strange as he wants because under the given circumstances, it is totally plausible.
When I started watching the movie, I found the character Betty totally unbelievable, thinking that is not the Hollywood that any newcomer encounters. Instead, she should be wasting away somewhere or doing tricks at Sunset Blvd. Toward the end, I realizes how right I was in thinking that way.
Once could watch this film countless times and pick up the little symbolism in each scene, but it shouldn't take more than one sitting to understand it, and once you get the general outline, you realize nothing is as it seems. I picked it up right away, but given this being a Lynch film, I wasn't sure which one was reality and which one wasn't. But toward the end, one realizes which one is real due to the character superimpositions.
After the nice little movie "The Straight Story," David Lynch is back in full force.