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Ah. Ironically, in defending criticism of the cinematic nonsense-peddler, Laura Dern manages to hit the nail on the head of why David Lynch is a numpty of colossal proportions.

Actress Laura Dern has defended David Lynch against accusations the director makes his surreal movies deliberately difficult to understand - and then refuses to explain them. Dern, who has starred in four Lynch movies including his latest Inland Empire, became incensed at the Venice Film Festival last September when one reporter criticized him for not explaining the movie's plot. She says, "I get so protective of David, like an older sister or something, which is so absurd. He's not waiting for us to get the movie because he doesn't think the cinema is about 'getting it'. I think he believes - which I've found very rare in filmmakers - in the intelligence of the audience, that they're intelligent enough to discover the film and what it means within themselves."

So, what David is saying, is that if you're a storyteller, it doesn't matter if your audience knows what the story is about or what the hell is going on? There's a reason, David, why that attitude is very rare in filmmakers. It's because people with that attitude invariably end up making rubbish films, that's why.

And not a single one of my friends, some of whom are inexlicably David Lynch fans, could tell me what Lost Highway was about. In fact, not a single person I've met has been able to tell me. So David's calling me, all my friends and pretty much everyone I've ever met stupid is he? Well, that's just plain rude and bumps him up to third place on Alex's "Who I Need To Punch In The Face If I'm Ever Unlucky Enough To Meet Them" list.