I had ... extremely mixed feelings about Eyes Wide Shut. But after that review I'm tempted to see it again. I felt it was a lot like a Lynch film: I spent half the time working hard trying to figure out how many layers of narrative and reference the director was trying to work into each scene, and walked away annoyed. Annoyed with myself, because I knew there was a lot I missed; and annoyed with the director both for being obscure, and for perhaps having a less-than-exciting "real" plot dressed up in many layers of "cleverness". And most annoyed by not being able to tell whether that was the case, for certain.
(For example, much as I loved the surface layers of Twin Peaks, the actual story right down at the bottom was depressingly dull. I felt like I'd done a lot of work for nothing! And while I still cannot work out, after many pages of interpretations and reviews, what was going on exactly in Lost Highway, I feel that most of the explanations I've seen have a very unsatisfying and boring "real" plot.)
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Date: 2007-08-12 07:30 am (UTC)(For example, much as I loved the surface layers of Twin Peaks, the actual story right down at the bottom was depressingly dull. I felt like I'd done a lot of work for nothing! And while I still cannot work out, after many pages of interpretations and reviews, what was going on exactly in Lost Highway, I feel that most of the explanations I've seen have a very unsatisfying and boring "real" plot.)