Mondess122 said:

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Mulholland Drive's pretty conventional

This is why I hate Lynch...

To be honest, I was pretty 'eh' towards it. Most people either love it or hate it (a vast majority seems to love it however), but I was just in the middle. Some parts were very clever, some parts were really stupid. I get that it's a dream, a commentary on Hollywood culture and whatnot, but I generally just didn't care. Films like this (which also includes most of Kubrick's filmography) just don't do anything for me. I love analyzing themes in films like Barton Fink or The Big Lebowski, but analyzing the themes in this film and many of Kubrick's films (with possibly the only exception being (the American cut of) The Shining) very much feels like homework to me.

I prefer not to analyse most of Lynch's films. Taking them at face value -- as if they're literally about people being caught in worlds where the laws of physics are breaking down around them, unleashing all sorts of pseudo-Lovecraftian horrors -- just works better for me.