Movies which confuse and bewilder you?

...hmm......I don't know about you, but if the director has to retrospectively explain what his film is about on the DVD release, that's a tacit admission of failure (and I went to art college, so I know a thing or to about failure to connect with the audience :o). I don't dispute that Lynch is a brilliant film maker, but this film is clever at the expense of legibility. A handful of disturbing scenes and lurching reality shifts do not a good movie make.

Whilst I always enjoy the sense of dislocated delirium that typifies Lynch's work, Lost Highway feels like a case of Lynch trying to second guess his own weirdnesss only to end up lampooning himself.
 
There's one I've seen three times now on the television and I still don't understand it.
It's a family touring the mid-west of America in their car and they end up finding a deserted ghost town in the desert. In one of the buildings they find a video camera containing film of a previous family who had also called there. They recognize them as having been working in a diner they called in before coming to this deserted town.
The people on the film are really terrified and say that they are stranded there and are disappearing one by one.
There is some human skin tacked to a wall.

Then their car vanishes.

It all gets weirder and the final scene is them working in the diner like the first family. :confused:

Can anyone remember what it's called?
 
I've seen Donnie Darko three times and still don't know what the hell it's supposed to be about. :confused::o

I didn't understand Close Encounters of the Third Kind either.
 
The Deep End.

never again will i pay attention to the review snippets on a dvd case.

my gawwwwwwd i just do not get that movie at all
 
I was waiting for someone to bring up Fight Club! I left the room for five minutes to go to the loo and must have missed the bit that made it make sense.
 
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing And Charm School.

I love watching ballroom dancing so I tried, I REALLY tried.

I think it must be a seriously crap film but it stars Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, Sean Astin, Donnie Walberg, John Goodman and Danny Devito.

Confused, bewildered, befuddled and got a migraine.
 
There is a difference between movies that purposely leave you guessing and questioning the emaning of the film and others that just leave you guessing because they fail to explain themselves out of sheer badly written script. Donnie Darko is the former and Vanilla Sky is the latter.
 
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