Nixt
27-06-2007, 11:23 AM
David Lynch is a Director who is renowned for being a bit of a weirdo. His films and series are generally quite odd and eerie and the short series called "Rabbits" that I have recently come across is a perfect example of this.
It's got a 50 minute run time overall so I doubt you'll want to watch it all, but here are the links in case you do -
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isVg93pLHQQ
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcSsmEVRt9U
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jfvbvwWbew
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSJCrhbqjg
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdI3HRECal4
Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMgEHj5_v4
Part 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLi0zjutPtU
If you don't want to watch them all, which is likely, I'd go for episode 4 or 6 as they give you a good idea of how weird they are.
Synopsis from wiki -
Each episode takes place in a single dark room, with no camera cuts except for one lonely cut in episode five, at a ringing telephone. There's a rain track constantly playing, and the camera loses focus whenever thunder cracks. The three rabbits - Jack, Jane and Suzie - enter, walk, sit, stand up and exit the room. Whenever one of the rabbits enters the room, an applause track is played. A laugh track is played apparently randomly, since there are no jokes, and the laugh seems pointless despite the film having a sitcom format. Action is scant, with the rabbits uttering their lines between pauses in disorder, so that there is no coherent flow of dialogue. When the lines are rearranged, there is still no explanation for the laugh track, and the overall meaning of the dialogue remains cryptic, with several allusions to "it". Jack and Jane take turns in reciting incoherent lines of poetry, interrupted by sudden lapses of awareness that are quickly drowned by a burning match in the background. To a similar effect, a diabolical mouth is shown twice in the show, reciting gibberish. In the very last episode, the steps that have been haunting the rabbits finally come to a stop, the door opens, and a hellish scream is heard. The rabbits cower in fear on the sofa, and Suzie wonders "I wonder who I will be". This last sentence seems to allude to an afterlife. Because of several other allusions to "a previous life" throughout the show, this last line seems to confirm that the rabbits are in an "in between dimension" or a purgatory.
It's got a 50 minute run time overall so I doubt you'll want to watch it all, but here are the links in case you do -
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isVg93pLHQQ
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcSsmEVRt9U
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jfvbvwWbew
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuSJCrhbqjg
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdI3HRECal4
Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMgEHj5_v4
Part 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLi0zjutPtU
If you don't want to watch them all, which is likely, I'd go for episode 4 or 6 as they give you a good idea of how weird they are.
Synopsis from wiki -
Each episode takes place in a single dark room, with no camera cuts except for one lonely cut in episode five, at a ringing telephone. There's a rain track constantly playing, and the camera loses focus whenever thunder cracks. The three rabbits - Jack, Jane and Suzie - enter, walk, sit, stand up and exit the room. Whenever one of the rabbits enters the room, an applause track is played. A laugh track is played apparently randomly, since there are no jokes, and the laugh seems pointless despite the film having a sitcom format. Action is scant, with the rabbits uttering their lines between pauses in disorder, so that there is no coherent flow of dialogue. When the lines are rearranged, there is still no explanation for the laugh track, and the overall meaning of the dialogue remains cryptic, with several allusions to "it". Jack and Jane take turns in reciting incoherent lines of poetry, interrupted by sudden lapses of awareness that are quickly drowned by a burning match in the background. To a similar effect, a diabolical mouth is shown twice in the show, reciting gibberish. In the very last episode, the steps that have been haunting the rabbits finally come to a stop, the door opens, and a hellish scream is heard. The rabbits cower in fear on the sofa, and Suzie wonders "I wonder who I will be". This last sentence seems to allude to an afterlife. Because of several other allusions to "a previous life" throughout the show, this last line seems to confirm that the rabbits are in an "in between dimension" or a purgatory.