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- Unknown
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- Original screenplay
- needed to precede following dl
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- Irrelevant
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- 141 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- Digital: DVD
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- 2001
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- Predominant Genre:
- Mystery
- Directors:
Directors David Lynch 
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Outstanding Performances Rebekah DEL RIO Chad EVERETT Melissa GEORGE 
Outstanding Performances Lee GRANT Ann MILLER Naomi WATTS 
- Premiss:
- An aspiring actress meets and befriends an amnesiac woman hiding in an apartment belonging to the former’s aunt.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Alienation | Art | Corporate Power | Cowardice | Curiosity | Destiny | Emotional repression | Empathy | Friendship | Hollywood | Identity | Ideology | Loneliness | Love | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Paranoia | Parasitism | Passivity | Personal | Political | Political Correctness | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Solipsism | The West | Western culture | White culture | White people
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Fiction:
Non‑Fiction:
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- Unknown
- Awards:
- Awards & honors
Hollywood for beginners
David Lynch’s 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller:
- Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: At least two clues are revealed before the credits;
- Notice appearances of the red lampshade;
- Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again?
- An accident is a terrible event – notice the location of the accident;
- Who gives a key? And why?
- Notice the robe, the ashtray, the coffee cup;
- What is felt, realized & gathered at the Club Silencio?
- Did talent, alone, help Camilla?
- Note the occurrences surrounding the man behind Winkie’s.
- Where is Aunt Ruth?
Summary: The Surreal Dream‑world of Caucasians.
Mannered, surreal, often first‑person mystery (sometimes changing who the person is) that actually works.
Initially somnolent, it grows on you to become a hypnotic tale of schizophrenia and failure. What at first seems trite – complete with weirdness for its own sake – becomes a profound exploration of the nature of both cinema and real‑life alienation with the two seen as necessary concomitants.
The ever‑excellent Naomi WATTS plays the ingénue character needed to drive a somewhat absurd plot without forcing the audience to ask why she simply doesn’t call the police from the get‑go.
The film is really too long and the pace a little too sluggish, but it is a subtle satire on the Hollywood version of the White American Dream that stands favorable comparison with illustrious forebears like Sunset Blvd.: Its characters live in a fantasy world of dreams‑of‑escape that finally lead nowhere but an early grave.
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