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A- |
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A |
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B+ |
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| Direction: |
A- |
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A |
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beyond the silken aperture
by a. (movies profile)
Apr 17, 2007
6
of
6 people found this review helpful
This film is by far Lynch's most obscure effort to date. Any and all notions of linearity are tossed in the blender and shredded in a cascading spiral of paranoiac dread and hallucinogenic madness. The primary explicable plotline involves Laura Dern playing an actress cast in a cursed film that seems to encroach upon and infiltrate reality; but as the plot progresses it quickly becomes a dissecting table whereupon themes of time, space, and identity are dealt with essentially in their being distorted and negated. As usual, though, Lynch implants various subtle markers that tie a loose thread between the events that occur, so while fumbling about in the darkness one gets the impression that there is a lightswitch hidden SOMEWHERE, underneath the floorboards perhaps...
As far as negative comments go, I have few. At certain points I thought Lynch could've done a better job with the dialogue. And there are two dance sequences which I found to be horrendously cheesy and disruptive to the overall atmosphere of the film.
In total, though, it is definitely worth seeing once and more, but watch it with an attentive and open mind. |
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