with an opening segment that imitate the music and cinematography of todd haynes safe ( 1995 ) and david lynch use dream and myth and warp notion of reality to tell the fractured story of a failed bit part hollywood actress or waitress and diane selwyn and let down by fame and her own demon and obsess with camilla rhodes and who be engage to hotshot director adam kesher . the film effectively take place in diane drug fuel head while we be witness to her crazy distortion and her wish fulfillment and regret and obsession and fear . use the dream narrative a a way of present two notion of reality in conflict and lynch do not simplify the opposition between reality and fantasy but actively entangle them . the last 45 minute be a dream like a what come before while and the troublesome air of detach and otherworldly ambiguity still pervade and fracture the seemingly secure distinction between reality and dream we expect to see in film about nightmare and dream . lynch film borrows from many film and old and new and but ultimately be a film unlike any other with the exception of the director own lose highway and blue velvet . it constantly challenge the viewer to interpret what be see and not only intuitively but intellectually . yet it be not as pretentious a one would have imagine because lynch make u sympathize with the protagonist despite her murderous deed an element that be miss in all of his other film except the straight story . he do this by present diane dream alter ego and betty and a a wholesome canadian farm girl destine for fame . lynch also present u with an intriguing story that affirms and negates in equal measure . be camilla and diane really lovers or just friend . who be the blue lady . what do she signify . who be the bum behind winkies . what be the significance of the rotting corpse at sierra bonita . do aunt ruth really exist . be silencio an abstraction of hell or perhaps a self referential take on the film status a fiction . lynch isn not prepared to answer any question he pose and choose instead to present his love story in the city of dream a a set of interconnected abstraction and motif . the acting be top rate and especially naomi watt a diane selwyn or betty and who be yet to eclipse this performance . laura harring have the requisite hayworthesque allure a camilla or rita and while adam theroux a adam bring an freewheeling arrogance and sublimate paranoid aggression to his role . it be stagger and a grave injustice that not one of them be even nominate for an academy award . this be a film that demand to be see and analyze closely . the mystery at the heart of the film remain in lynch hand but half the fun be find consistent idea from the maze of seem incongruity that he present . upon close inspection there be a definite sense of a puzzle and perhaps an incomplete jigsaw that tease u with closure but deny the imaginary plenitude of narrative coherence . ultimately and this be lynch key film .