Intensely Haunting and Creepy. Brilliant Stuff!

Rating: 10/10 (11 August 2003)

David Lynch makes beautiful films and with each successive film his craftsmanship becomes more and more refined.
I found MD similar in vein to Lost Highway, but even richer in beauty. Like Lost Highway, MD is a story told in three acts. There are also similar mysterious characters who populate the worlds of both Lost Highway and MD.
The first time I viewed MD around 12 months ago, I was very confused when the end credits rolled. After viewing it for the second time last night, the film made a lot more sense.
David Lynch has his own distinct view of the world and how it works, and how events can be inter-linked and inter-related in order to tell a story. What he creates is films that skillfully mesh together mystery, beauty, horror and the mundane. The results are challenging, but oh so satisfying.

I know that Lynch's film are not to everyone's tastes, but I say to anyone who has viewed MD once and found it confusing and convoluted, try viewing it again and you may well see a lot more logic the second time. I certainly did.
And thank you David for showing most of the world their first glimpse of Australian raised Naomi Watts in a staring role. She's come of age and deserves to grace important films.
On a final note, apparently MD was going to be a TV series but plans were dropped. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing because MD is a very tightly edited film (even though it's 146 minutes long!). Even with brilliant concepts and direction, a TV series can drag stories out too long as Twin Peaks eventually did.
10/10