“Maybe I think we should be grateful. Grateful that we've managed to survive through all of our... adventures. Whether they were real, or only a dream."
One of the best films about artifice, class, sex, and how the three intersect — on top of being the most technically impressive film of the last 25 years... it’s Kubrick’s magnum opus and it’s beyond me how anyone could think otherwise.
Lynch could have very easily made a direct follow up to the season two cliffhanger, but instead he had the empathetic wisdom to remind us all that the tragedy of an abused teenage girl laid at the center of this universe—the darkness no longer goes unseen.
"At the time, it felt like the most important thing in the world." — Vincent Gallo
In my first log I called the film brutal, and now in my third I think that word doesn't do the film justice: it's quite clearly the saddest film I've ever seen. Everything about the film is sad, every frame of it radiates an intense feeling of pain. As I've often described to my brother during our many conversations about the film, I think…
From the ending of Unbreakable—"You know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world. To not know why you're here... that's... that's just an awful feeling. I almost gave up hope. There were so many times I questioned myself... but I found you. So many sacrifices, just to find you. Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake. It all makes sense."
Honestly kind of speechless, but…
