28 July 2011

Rabbits (David Lynch, 2002)

8/10
Back in 2002 David Lynch released a series of eight 5-7 minute shorts on his website, each one seemingly an episode of a surreal "sitcom" titled Rabbits. Unused clips were later featured in his film Inland Empire, to beguiling effect. Your mileage and patience for these shorts probably depends on your tolerance for Lynch at his most overtly bizarre - the characters (three humanoid rabbits) speak in non-sequiturs, but recurring words and themes suggest the lines might be pieced together to form actual conversations. I thought it was fun and creepy, although anyone looking for a deeper significance may only come away annoyed. They're up on Youtube for now (with Spanish subtitles but no matter) if anyone's interested.

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