awful

Rating: 1/10 (2 March 2004)

David Lynch may very well be a genius, but movies are in large part supposed to be about story-telling. If I want to be confused about a movie, I could just watch two minutes of it. If I sit and see the whole thing, I want to be able to make sense of it. I realize that it gets at the part of life that doesn't make much sense, but it does so in such an overly-complex way that it loses its ability to actually hold me as an audience. I never knew what was going on in this film. For my money, I would much prefer a film that actually invites the viewer to engage in some kind of dialogue afterwards. The only dialogue I observed dealt with how much we were confused, or how stupid we must be for not getting such a bizzarely constructed film. Movies that are acclaimed for being complicated are not necessarily good. As this one shows, they can be downright awful.