A fantastic Puzzle

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2002)

*****SPOILERS***** O.k, so Betty is really Diane and shes having a dream about something that happened to her except she changes everything in the dream to suit herself, i.e she came to hollywood to become an actress, in reality the part went to Camilla and in her dream she makes it so that the director was forced to choose Camilla when he really wanted her, meanwhile she has already landed herself a part in a different movie, notice that the director mentions that the girl who auditioned before her had brown hair, a reference to rita/camilla, they say her performance was forced, this is her way of making herself a better actress than camilla, at least thats what i think is going on, you can never be too sure. That is the beauty of this film, after my first viewing, all i could say was... What the??? Only on the second viewing did i pick up little things and come to those conclusions about the dream. I love films that make me think and especially ones that confuse me as i am not easily fooled with movies, Memento did to a certain extent last year and this definately did it to me this year. I can't fault this film at all, music, cinamatography and acting are all done perfectly, the only thing i do have a problem with is the significance of one scene, the scene being the one with the hitman killing his friend over a black book, it is never really explained and i don't know what the black book was for, maybe it was tied in to why rita was getting shot in the beginning but i really can't figure it out, oh well, i guess i will just have to watch it again. Fantastic, surreal, beautiful, perfect, i love this film. 10/10.