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Anything to critique? I have nothing to say, it's a great record!

I won’t vote for it because I haven’t seen it in a while, but I’m quite far from your enthusiasm... however, it sounds strange to me (though it may not be true) to read that this is the best Kim Ki-duk, everywhere I find that people claim the earlier films are much better. I’ve only seen this one and Primavera, Estate, and neither of them struck me as a masterpiece, although I liked them.

Dear engineer, do you know that Lynch, whom you say is mocking the audience, actually invested, besides four years of his life, everything he had in Eraserhead (the other "extreme" film), to the point that he had nowhere to sleep and slept on set? Does that seem like the attitude of someone who wants to mock the audience, risking failure by throwing all his belongings into a film for a few? What are the real mockeries here, or maybe it’s just the umpteenth tear-jerking war film drenched in disgusting rhetoric? @solomon: obviously I agree with what you said, and the fact that the visual aspect is extremely important (those who talk about mockery should ask themselves what cinema is, if it’s still an art or just two hours spent eating popcorn and listening to a little story), but it’s also crucial how the plot is deconstructed and all the psychoanalytic references are laid bare.

The films you mention, I've seen practically all of them; some are very beautiful, others much less so, but for sure the "50 times better" is entirely your point of view (expressed in your usual pontificating tone, by the way). My view, however, is that none are at that level. But your perspective leaves me quite perplexed since you say you like Mulholland and what Lynch does, creating complicated films (snobbish, many would say), which belongs to a certain type of cinema. And Lost Highway is the most extreme and mature point of what Lynch has done (always bringing up INLAND, which I haven't seen). In Lost Highway, Lynch, in my opinion, approaches that idea of cinema that Greenaway talks about, where what truly matters are the images (another example could be 2001: A Space Odyssey), along with adding a strong psychoanalytic component to a narrative that is no longer just a simple sequence of events (while in Mulholland, the story is absolutely linear). Whether you like it or hate it, that's Lynch. No one would ever think to look for the plot in a painting or a song, or to explain with a bit of rough rationality any image of a poem. In cinema, many, if they don't find the story, shout "fraud."

>>>There will be at least 50 better movies than these in the nineties, and perhaps the true absolute masterpiece of this decade is Heimat 2 (a film that few know, which aired just over a month ago on "Fuori Orario" in episodes), it lasts 25 hours (this is not a joke!), but it truly is the ultimate masterpiece of the nineties. Just a few titles: "Goodfellas," "Casino," "A Straight Story" (by the same Lynch), "Daddy Nostalgie," "Nightmare Before Christmas," "The Truman Show," "Taste of Cherry," "The Silence of the Lambs," "The Piano," "Unforgiven," need more? Well, these are some films from the nineties, all at least ten times better than this one. Now, it’s not that every rambling of Lynch's is a masterpiece, nor is it that anything that’s a bit different from the usual is a masterpiece. At least, that’s how I see it.<<< A polè, and don’t shoot bullshit.

@stoopid: actually, I meant to write "one of the best," and not "the best," but it's very close to what I think. Anyway, Mulholland Drive is (though beautiful) a compromise film compared to this one. A concession to those who want a linear plot. It may be liked or not, but saying that you love Lynch and find Lost Highway ugly seems to me like the joke "I love Allen's films, but not the neurotic guy who plays in them." In other words, I still haven't seen INLAND, but in the rest of his work, Lost Highway is the pinnacle of that journey Lynch began with Eraserhead. It's like saying you love the Velvet Underground because they made Loaded, even if you can't stand VU&nico.

Here it is, for me the greatest film not only of the 90s but of all time. Lynch at his peak. This goes beyond the "meanings" of the plot. Simply immense.

great movie. The end of the American dream

In my opinion, Matrix is a great concept that could have been utilized much better. Instead, the philosophical premises of the first part are resolved in a nice big action blockbuster. This left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth, but it's definitely enjoyable to watch. The second one, on the other hand, is unnecessary, and the third is a shameful and gigantic pile of crap.

This time I agree, one of the most beautiful Italian comedies, and one of my favorite Italian films. Perhaps the Fantozzi saga owes a lot to a difficult life.