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He removes an envelope from his coat pocket : " To all John Does Everywhere " Ann ( feverish from a sick bed ) screams at him to stop . In 1990 , Mahathir Mohamad , then Malaysian prime minister , proposed the creation of an East Asia Economic Group , only to see it buried under feverish opposition from Washington , which charged that the concept was racially discriminatory and exclusive . Add to that the ghosts of two prior Priors , in a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-esque turn , and you've got one feverish , very confused young man . Variously interpreted as everything from a morbidly deadpan black comedy to a Jungian nightmare , David Lynch 's debut film unfolds like a lurid , feverish dream in a bleak , eerily underpopulated industrial wasteland .