This film makes people who need plot--really angry....

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2002)

and they start throwing around phrases like "pretentious crap." and "Jackson Pollock bulls&^%" and accuse David Lynch of being the Emperor walking down the street with no clothes on. All I know is that I love a movie that is crafted in the "well made play" mode and has easy to follow plot lines.----Sometimes. But not all the time. And thank God there are brave directors like David Lynch--Robert Altman and a few others who know that there are many ways to tell a story and to tell it well. This is a beautiful, scary, frustrating, funny and sexy movie. I think I understand it, but who cares anyway? I kept me totally involved for two and a half hours and I kept praying for it not to end before I could decipher a little more. I give it a 9. Probably my favorite David Lynch film. I can't wait to watch it again.