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Lathe of Heaven. I stumbled onto it tonight--didn't even know they had made a movie version of Ursula LeGuin's sci-fi classic. I wouldn't say the film achieves greatness but it's damn entrancing. The story borders on solipsism but it's very nuanced. That's the only way I can think of to describe it. Now I'm tempted to seek out the book.

I think that's probably why David Lynch refuses to talk much about his movies. Yet people still accuse him of being deliberately vague, all the time. I heard an interview with Robert Plant once where he stated that American audiences did not appreciate a lot of their (Led Zep) music the way their European audiences did because most of their lyrics were more poetic than decipherable. The Navahoes and other tribes too believe that the stories they tell contain several layers of meaning and that one interprets them at whatever level suits him or her.

It's not that I disagree with you, Omni, or that I want to argue that my interpretation is better. I probably just get excited by my mystical interpretation of Donnie Darko because there are SO very few films that even contain the POTENTIAL to have a mystical interpretation put forth. Mysticism is still highly countercultural. It goes against everything that the "powers that be" want us to think about ourselves. Your interpretation is interesting in its own way. In fact, my own take on Lynch's Mulholland Drive is that the first three-quarters of it is actually a kind of purgatorial dream that she has in the moments after she kills herself. Very similar to what you said, a dream of how she wanted her life to be.

LOL bitty! And don't worry, I know when to shut up (kinda, heh) and I wouldn't mess with za Led.