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Originally Posted by meehai my interpretation of that film is its for pretencious people who think too much into random shit, and if u confuse people enough they believe it is something they arent seeing, rather than it just being a mismatch of bad scenes of a director with psycological problems. The real genius lies in a film with a easy to follow, and well put together plot. ie. shawshank redemption etc
Sort of like the people who see a dead dog cut in half, stuck onto a bit of paper and call it art
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I actually couldn't disagree with you more. Sure there are good films that are easy to understand and straight forward, but thats for people who really don't like to think..
People are too used to a film explaining itself 100% with no questions left to the viewer. A film that leaves room for you to dream on and can mean different things to different people (usually through strong metaphor, or as you said mismatched scenes, which are not at all different from eachother) when they are together, they are a whole. a movie, an entity - Which if it's good enough it will stick in your head, and make you think about it.. You'll understand it ( I never thought Lost Highway would make sense, i thought david lynch was just crazy) sooner or later, because it really doesn't matter what it means to your friends - or even to the director. It's what it means to you, and everybody is different. Sometimes for yourself it will even be different when you watch it a fourth or fifth time, it really depends on your frame of mind when you watch it. (ofcourse from beginning to end)
Thats why I like to share what I interpreted of it, and see what others saw as well... Yea I like alot of other films that are much more straight forward (including the Shawshank redemption) but it's pretty much explained.. theres not much to share about what you saw, (especially since the novella was better imho)
A truly great film is one that can explain itself, but leaves a feeling of insecurity at the end... the feeling that something isn't right, and the only one i can think of off the top of my head happens to be another Lynch film, Blue Velvet.
It's so straight forward, and it makes sense at first glance... But start to look for incontinuities in it, most likely you noticed them but you looked over them, just like you would in a dream... The end of this film implies a dream (or does it?) but you really have to think back to what was in the content.
For example (i have many more, i'm not going to get too into it right now)
Dorothy Vallens lives on the seventh floor.
Jeffrey's original plan was to jimmy a window and climb through.
He knew she lived on the 7th floor, this didn't occur to him?
He tells Sandy, and she doesn't seem to see the fault in the plan either.
And really, what a dreamy film - Remember Ben's house? Hah,
anyways, i'm always up for talking more, but if i go on i'm afraid i'll get off topic, i already did... somewhat