Track 29

I don't know what to make of this film. I don't hate it, mind you, and for once a Nic Roeg film doesn't let me down, I gotta stew on this one for a little bit.

Superb performances by Theresa Russel, Gary Oldman and surprisingly Christopher Lloyd, in this portrayal of a woman dealing with a trauma through an embodiment of the return of her long lost child. The movie has a very surreal feel and for (a long time) leaves it very ambiguous what's real and imaged.

Top badass moment? Hearing a proper Brit accent in a very American film; it’s like discovering a tea-bag in a jar of coffee. Gary Oldman (channelling his inner Johnny Rotten) is great, but at the end of this film I was left feeling, what was the point of all that? When I was young I was given a proper train set, but I lost my temper with it so often that my parents took it away. This probably explains the love-hate relationship I now have with trains. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

Gary Oldman puts in a great performance. "Mommy!" I'm not sure where all the hate comes from, since this is similar to The Three Faces of Eve and isn't necessarily weirder than any other Lynch movie. Fav scene: Christopher Lloyd presiding over what I 100% believe to be what model train conventions are like.

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There are a lot of good things that can be said about this film; I find it hard not to love everything Dennis Potter wrote. Yet I didn't feel very much about this movie at all.