Mulholland Drive / Memento / Donny Darko

Rating: 9/10 (14 September 2003)

**SPOILERS**VS is another Lynch-like effort at non-linear film making. Anyone who finds VS puzzling should watch Donny Darko and try to understand time travel, then watch Memento, firstly watch the black and white scenes, then the colour ones. Then finally, with a good grip on your sofa, watch Mulholland Drive and you'll really have a head ache!
VS is mid-way between Memento & Mulholland, it's quite easy to understand at the end so not so challenging, but the cinematography is lovely to watch, personally I didn't care for the obvious "soundtrack album" music, I'd rather have an orchestral background, but my girlfriend liked it.
If you're old enough you should decide whether the Dallas / Bobby Ewing 'dream' plot line is a fore-runner of all 'dream' plots that followed.
My girlfriend felt that the ending was a swiz and that it was too simple an explanation for the weird events in the film. Our 11 year daughter is told never to end stories with "and it was a dream".
Spoilers.
I was a little puzzled that he appeared to have actually died before they froze him, so how would he dream if already dead unless they can resurrect the dead? The 'tech support' guy says he's now 150 years in the future, so until then, surely they couldn't bring him back to life whilst cryogenically frozen. Anyway, much like Star Trek, the technology isn't important.