Even by the standards of a David Lynch film, Rabbits is strange. It runs just over 40 minutes, making it borderline feature-length, though I think the cutoff is usually 45 or 50 minutes. It takes place on what looks like a soundstage. There are just three characters. There's only one camera angle (I think).
It seems to parody a classic sitcom due to how the characters move around and get applauded when they enter the room. There's also a laugh track used at just the most random of moments, and every time, I'll admit part of me wanted to laugh, but I might have just been nervous (or I've been conditioned by laugh-track heavy sitcoms. Maybe it can happen to anyone!)
If you try to analyse it alongside the then-recent Mulholland Drive, maybe you could see it tying in? Both are very creepy, and while Mulholland Drive is about filmmaking, Rabbits is about filming a sitcom. Two sides of the same weird coin that is David Lynch's take on Hollywood?
This short film is boring and repetitive, but it definitely has a unique atmosphere that keeps things a little interesting throughout. It's undeniably a one-of-a-kind movie, and given I think I could sort of scratch the surface as to what it was about, I'm sure there's a lot that I haven't been able to unpack. Unfortunately, unpacking a slow movie where not much happens is sort of like unpacking a suitcase after you've returned from a long holiday: it's kind of boring, you don't want to do it, and sleep is more enticing.
It seems to parody a classic sitcom due to how the characters move around and get applauded when they enter the room. There's also a laugh track used at just the most random of moments, and every time, I'll admit part of me wanted to laugh, but I might have just been nervous (or I've been conditioned by laugh-track heavy sitcoms. Maybe it can happen to anyone!)
If you try to analyse it alongside the then-recent Mulholland Drive, maybe you could see it tying in? Both are very creepy, and while Mulholland Drive is about filmmaking, Rabbits is about filming a sitcom. Two sides of the same weird coin that is David Lynch's take on Hollywood?
This short film is boring and repetitive, but it definitely has a unique atmosphere that keeps things a little interesting throughout. It's undeniably a one-of-a-kind movie, and given I think I could sort of scratch the surface as to what it was about, I'm sure there's a lot that I haven't been able to unpack. Unfortunately, unpacking a slow movie where not much happens is sort of like unpacking a suitcase after you've returned from a long holiday: it's kind of boring, you don't want to do it, and sleep is more enticing.