Most confusing plots
In a movie,I mean
shareVanilla Sky
shareI follow that one alright.
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Mulholland Drive, you really have to piece a lot together yourself, same with Donnie Darko. Both are satisfying in a do-the-work-yourself sort of way. Southland Tales is confusing and terrible because of it.
shareMost David Lynch stuff fits the bill for this question really. Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, Inland Empire, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead -- all had me scratching my head.
shareWild at Heart and Blue Velvet aren't as confusing as the others. They at least follow something of a traditional narrative, just populated with strange characters. The rest, yeah, I still haven't made it through Lost Highway because I get so frustrated. I haven't tried Inland Empire yet, but I want to. I do like the way Lynch confuses me, so there's that.
shareAnyone who can fully grasp Synecdoche NY (2010) on 1 viewing has my respect. You've heard of a story within a story? That one is a story within a story within a script within a movie within a play within another story.
shareWhat!?
shareFor real. Well I might've exaggerated a little, but it's about a writer who decides to make a play about his life, and he ends up hiring actors to play everyone he knows, as he reconstructs the entire city of NY in a warehouse, and then becomes a character in his own play, and it sorta loops around forever haha. Someone was seriously wasted when they dreamed that up.
shareI like that movie, it is indeed very confusing. After a few viewings I think I have it down, but it's hard to be sure. Great movie, but strange and confusing as hell.
shareMight be time for me to watch it again. I also really liked it, just as I really liked "Being John Malkovich", "Adaptation" and "Eternal Sunshine" written by the same guy Kaufman. But wow it's like inhaling a mentholyptus cough drop right into your brain.
shareI have yet to fully understand Qui-Gon's pod race bet with Watto in "Phantom Menace".
Not that I ever really cared. 😩
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