Rabbits (2002) A Short Film by David Lynch

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  • Опубліковано 28 лип 2021
  • Rabbits (2002)
    In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.
    Written and Directed by David Lynch
    Composer - Angelo Badalamenti
    Cast - Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Scott Coffey, Rebekah Del Rio
    letterboxd.com/film/rabbits/
    www.imdb.com/title/tt0347840/
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  • @MovieMatinee
    @MovieMatinee  7 днів тому +2

    Short Film submissions of 2024 are now open!:
    filmfreeway.com/MovieMatinee/

  • @Herculine1984
    @Herculine1984 6 місяців тому +749

    When life does not make sense.... you watch a David Lynch story, and you remember there are things that make way less sense...

    • @nighteatingyou
      @nighteatingyou 5 місяців тому +37

      the horror starts when his work starts to make sense...

    • @Herculine1984
      @Herculine1984 5 місяців тому +13

      @@nighteatingyou Mulholland drive nearly did.

    • @tmc1372
      @tmc1372 4 місяці тому +4

      best comment ever. Im certain hed be flattered.

    • @billbradley5296
      @billbradley5296 4 місяці тому +1

      😂

    • @aaliyahrose2755
      @aaliyahrose2755 3 місяці тому

      🤣🤣

  • @mrbenoit5018
    @mrbenoit5018 Рік тому +1515

    This is what David Lunch sees when he watches a normal sitcom

  • @davidsummer8631
    @davidsummer8631 2 роки тому +1376

    Rabbits is filmed in front of a slightly terrified studio audience

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 2 роки тому +54

      What if there wasn't an audience? Just recordings and rows of empty chairs

    • @motleygrewe
      @motleygrewe 2 роки тому +21

      @@SamuelBlack84 Inland Empire spoilers!

    • @LuisLopez-wc4sg
      @LuisLopez-wc4sg 2 роки тому +4

      I wanna like this comment but I won’t disturb the 69

    • @jo.v-c
      @jo.v-c Рік тому +6

      I was going to say "in front of a contrived studio audience" but that works too

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +5

      I once watched a play where one scene involved a nurse tied to a chair and tortured to death by a maniac
      The acting and effects were so well done I briefly wondered if it was for real

  • @Ennisburger
    @Ennisburger Рік тому +2191

    I gave my friend a copy of this to clear her frequent house parties when she wanted people to leave - it worked. Turns any happy atmosphere into existential dread😂

  • @firstnamelastname7990
    @firstnamelastname7990 5 місяців тому +310

    I’m at the worst point in my life right now mentally and somehow this is comforting

    • @jaythomaso9311
      @jaythomaso9311 5 місяців тому +20

      Not alone

    • @Tarotqueen-uv1qy
      @Tarotqueen-uv1qy 5 місяців тому +10

      I feel you I’m in the trenches of my ed and all I want is to get lost in films to pretend life is good for awhile.

    • @saintkayleepain
      @saintkayleepain 4 місяці тому +10

      literally, it's 6am rn and I'm watching this like it's a normal movie- my mental state is not the best rn🤣

    • @dagrynch
      @dagrynch 4 місяці тому +5

      no one called today

    • @ggj8823
      @ggj8823 4 місяці тому +1

      For me also

  • @sub-jec-tiv
    @sub-jec-tiv 7 місяців тому +390

    Naomi Watts had to grow her ears out for this one. You can barely tell it’s her. What a great actress!

    • @dagrynch
      @dagrynch 4 місяці тому +6

      I wonder who I will be

    • @MerkabaMillionare
      @MerkabaMillionare 3 місяці тому +1

      Wow! I thought I was the only one that finds her terribly depressing. I cannot sit through her movies.

    • @candenizaras9384
      @candenizaras9384 3 місяці тому +4

      so little actresses would transform into a rabbit for a role

    • @bigol9223
      @bigol9223 3 місяці тому +6

      Because this was the only thing I knew her from, I had no clue she didn't have a rabbit accent in real life. Mind = blown.

    • @benjamincoats5208
      @benjamincoats5208 9 днів тому

      😂

  • @DemonWarp65
    @DemonWarp65 10 місяців тому +563

    One of my favorite fan theories is that the rabbits are three souls in hell. The reason why they talk in such a bizarre, disjointed way, is because the damned condemned to wander hell for eternity can see tha past, and predict the future, but they are unable to see the present.

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +45

      Or, their minds can't process a more familiar form of conversation and can only interpret the world in a fragmented way

    • @lynnchanceable
      @lynnchanceable 6 місяців тому

      Without the present, the past and the future can't exist surely? Is Lynch commenting on the banality of some TV which never the less has the power to influence the masses and to create a false reality?

    • @ernestbuchanan5305
      @ernestbuchanan5305 5 місяців тому +65

      It does feel eternal. My take is that three immortal actors have been trying to perfect their play for some billions of years. Over time any meaning has been lost. They are still rehearsing.

    • @penguinmelissaful
      @penguinmelissaful 5 місяців тому +3

      I agree

    • @God-mb8wi
      @God-mb8wi 5 місяців тому +14

      @@ernestbuchanan5305 sick take

  • @marcelogonzalez8547
    @marcelogonzalez8547 Рік тому +769

    Amazing how Lynch managed to create AI Seinfeld 20 years before AI Seinfeld. The man is a true visionary.

    • @vaporreads5095
      @vaporreads5095 8 місяців тому +17

      It's gold, Jerry. GOLD!

    • @HYP3RC0L0R
      @HYP3RC0L0R 7 місяців тому +4

      ROFL!

    • @Sixsmite
      @Sixsmite 6 місяців тому +4

      AI Seinfeld was inspired by Rabbits

    • @DK-fd3fi
      @DK-fd3fi 5 місяців тому +2

      Rabbit karmr?

    • @ultravioletpisces3666
      @ultravioletpisces3666 4 місяці тому +1

      I thought it reminded me of seinfeld too lol

  • @CrankyRayy
    @CrankyRayy 6 місяців тому +281

    I like how the audience cheers every time the father in the family walks through the door, as if he's the comedic/heroic "man of the house" sort of character you'd have in a traditional sitcom. Then he waits for them to stop laughing lol

    • @perfectbreakfast
      @perfectbreakfast 5 місяців тому +5

      They also cheered for the one in the pink robe a few times, oh and Suzie too

    • @flowrepins6663
      @flowrepins6663 5 місяців тому +11

      ​@@perfectbreakfastthey cheer whenever anyone that was outside enters the room

    • @perfectbreakfast
      @perfectbreakfast 5 місяців тому +7

      @@flowrepins6663Exactly and also the one in the pink robe also got cheered just for crossing the room from the ironing corner to the couch

  • @LarryXLR
    @LarryXLR Рік тому +683

    It's like watching an unnerving surrealist play, but you're the only one in the theater. Especially with the prerecorded applauses. Such an uneasy feeling. I love it.

    • @49558201
      @49558201 3 місяці тому +1

      Creepy !

    • @shuttittuppitt9355
      @shuttittuppitt9355 3 місяці тому +1

      Boring as (guess). Glad I skipped ahead to the ending. The most interesting thing is where one of them says "It was the man in the green coat", which is most likely a reference to Elmer Fudd, since he _tries_ (& fails) to hunt wabbits.

  • @Chyrre
    @Chyrre 8 місяців тому +95

    This is exactly my experience of watching Friends

  • @brunobucciaratiswife
    @brunobucciaratiswife 4 місяці тому +127

    The dialogue makes sense but it’s out of order. Someone would have to match them all up.
    The rabbits are dealing with a traumatic incident. They each speak of their own memories- the same incident, but they each perceived it differently. Their dialogue makes no sense because each of their “truths” were so different. Their trauma shook them up so badly that it infected their daily routine no matter how much they tried to keep their normal life.

  • @joeybeargrooves4ever
    @joeybeargrooves4ever Рік тому +265

    "Were you blonde?" at the beginning and "I wonder who I will be?" at the end imply to me that these are the souls of the dead awaiting reincarnation.

    • @notzul7138
      @notzul7138 11 місяців тому +3

      Yellow saliva

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +26

      Imagine if that was the secret to life and death
      Between each life, everyone waits inside a room for potentially centuries doing nothing but hang around inside a waiting room
      Echoes of Pinter, or Sartre

    • @ToddDouglasFox
      @ToddDouglasFox 7 місяців тому +3

      I make a comment about this.

    • @Thegayone0
      @Thegayone0 4 місяці тому +4

      maybe thats why theres a blonde girl in the window and why her shadows are of two rabbits

    • @Chukeeman
      @Chukeeman 3 місяці тому +1

      @@ToddDouglasFox I think I’m beginning to remember

  • @joncumber2020
    @joncumber2020 7 місяців тому +169

    Perhaps the most successful artist who has attempted to get dream logic on film imho.

    • @jtstory2596
      @jtstory2596 3 місяці тому

      the comment i was looking for.. he nails it

    • @grants7390
      @grants7390 2 місяці тому +1

      inland empire is a weird dream while eraserhead is a nightmare. I'm damn that's why it gave me nightmares when no horror movie has ever come close.

  • @thinginground5179
    @thinginground5179 Рік тому +619

    I like to think that since we can’t see the TV in shot, it’s like they’re watching us. While we’re waiting for them to do something entertaining, they’re thinking the exact same thing whilst we blankly stare just as much as them
    Also, the way the droning music progresses makes me feel like it’s about to climax (musically and visually) but it never does

    • @YSANROCHEOfficialYoutube
      @YSANROCHEOfficialYoutube Рік тому +13

      Wow I never thought of that - you are right

    • @iverbronx
      @iverbronx Рік тому +4

      great take on it

    • @thinginground5179
      @thinginground5179 Рік тому +2

      @@iverbronx thank u :3

    • @Avoidiac
      @Avoidiac 7 місяців тому +26

      The unseen television literally at the center of every halfway family-based sitcom of the last 40+ years has often felt like a weird two-way window to me. More so now.

    • @crichey56
      @crichey56 7 місяців тому +4

      ​@@Avoidiacdark AF tbh..

  • @nigelthornberry5375
    @nigelthornberry5375 Рік тому +405

    this is the epitome of what I like about Lynch's approach to horror: the true unknown. Full abstraction. It's so slow. It's so empty. It's so repetitive. Why am I completely riveted throughout the whole thing? The majority of this film is static images, but they're full to the brim with dread. Because I don't know what's going to happen next, though I feel like I should. I really, really should know what happens next....

    • @cristianm7097
      @cristianm7097 Рік тому +12

      Similar feeling to when I am alone at night in a forest in winter.

    • @okdifficultsituation
      @okdifficultsituation Рік тому +11

      It reminds me of what made P.T. such a genius horror game. The repetitive nature of a small space and putting it to it's full potential while keeping the player/viewer on edge is such a simple yet genius type of horror that isn't used enough

    • @-.CELESTE.-
      @-.CELESTE.- Рік тому

      This film is a masterpiece....also,have fun with this atmospheric gem from my blood sweat and tears ua-cam.com/video/dAbRoJcgIqA/v-deo.html

    • @Martin0
      @Martin0 7 місяців тому

      Very well said

    • @fredahwiwu5219
      @fredahwiwu5219 7 місяців тому +3

      The repetition is basically being a human

  • @freyashipley6556
    @freyashipley6556 7 місяців тому +95

    David Lynch makes such great use of radiators, sick colored walls, the sounds of remote industry....

    • @Chukeeman
      @Chukeeman 3 місяці тому +8

      Existential ruralism

  • @fibonacciCache
    @fibonacciCache Рік тому +142

    i love that train sound in the background. the pulsating hum is hypnotic

    • @-oiiio-3993
      @-oiiio-3993 7 місяців тому +3

      More of a foghorn.

  • @za-ih3ph
    @za-ih3ph 2 роки тому +631

    Watching this entire series at 12 years old probably did more damage than I intended

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 2 роки тому +17

      I saw far more horrible things at that age

    • @za-ih3ph
      @za-ih3ph 2 роки тому +9

      @TETCOM ye im 18 now, I was pretty obsessed with UA-cam creepy pastas and obscure films at the time.

    • @DNTMEE
      @DNTMEE 2 роки тому +1

      I never understood what was supposed to be so scary about that film. Like most of Kings work, it was ridiculous, sexist and pretentious.

    • @Sam_ijbol
      @Sam_ijbol Рік тому +10

      @@SamuelBlack84 is that a flex or something

    • @leandromadeireira8840
      @leandromadeireira8840 Рік тому +11

      @@DNTMEE for me, the weirdness of it, and the anticipation that something very bad is going to happen.

  • @zeeer0rooo
    @zeeer0rooo 5 місяців тому +98

    This would’ve been nightmare fuel to me 10 years ago, but now, this is comforting.

    • @ultravioletpisces3666
      @ultravioletpisces3666 4 місяці тому +2

      Lol i love this comment

    • @imjonathan6745
      @imjonathan6745 3 місяці тому +1

      is there a comment?

    • @omarcv7729
      @omarcv7729 2 місяці тому +1

      Why do they say that in the comments??? Where this is comforting, it's creepy

    • @Max18haack
      @Max18haack Місяць тому

      ​@@omarcv7729 k

    • @Max18haack
      @Max18haack Місяць тому

      ​@@omarcv7729 not really, this is my 10th time watching and it's my comfort movie/show

  • @markwarrensprawson
    @markwarrensprawson 7 місяців тому +51

    "Smoke, oil, heat... mirror, smear of blood, eye opens darkness." The shadows on the wall are a movie on their own. He's one weird cat, but damned if I don't love his work.

  • @SvenS2
    @SvenS2 8 місяців тому +107

    This looks like smth straight out of the Courage the Cowardly Dog universe

  • @breccamerie1
    @breccamerie1 4 місяці тому +12

    This feels like a story of internal dialogs and minimal spaces of the mind. This is what disassociation feels like, thoughts bleed through every now and then, even the feelings occasionally and then you just suppress it back down. Feels like trauma.

  • @afterthedash9784
    @afterthedash9784 4 місяці тому +16

    No one has mentioned the shadows. They each start with a single shadow, but eventually they all have 2 shadows. Keep your eye on the back wall.

  • @paulnash9851
    @paulnash9851 8 місяців тому +55

    It’s distance...
    We are all distanced, out of synch.
    This is how I piece together my days.
    You ARE alone.

  • @emilyfarfadet9131
    @emilyfarfadet9131 8 місяців тому +63

    This is one of my earliest memories of the internet- my dad used to watch every short Lynch was putting up at the time.

  • @1119nj
    @1119nj Рік тому +130

    It is like watching people serve prison time inside someone else's mind.

  • @apothk9549
    @apothk9549 7 місяців тому +70

    Donny Darko origin story...

  • @garyh8227
    @garyh8227 Рік тому +45

    I don't no why i liked this but i couldn't stop watching.

  • @stevematthews4489
    @stevematthews4489 5 місяців тому +27

    An unsettling yet hypnotic dream of a sitcom dystopia.

  • @MarcoCapelli74
    @MarcoCapelli74 7 місяців тому +122

    There's no director in this world who can turn your subconscious mind inside out like a sock and slap it in your face. Everything is so unsettling but so beautiful at the same time.

  • @jeff2v
    @jeff2v 2 роки тому +184

    its almost like David Lynch knew we would watch this shit high as a kite and the dialogue would trip us out.. "i'm going to find out one day." then you start to question if you have secrets and if you've exposed yourself about something.. to "what time is it" for comic relief as if to know that we'd question wtf is going on and why were even watching this at 4am in the morning, with laugh tracks just to trip us out more... Lynch really knew how to grasp that feeling of dread and purposeful randomness, and show it visually in a dreamy nightmarish atmosphere, exactly the way you'd only be able to understand if youre actually dreaming.. from the music, to the movements and position of the characters, and the long stares and randomness of their behavior.. lynch literally just created this to demonstrate the strangeness of the human mind, behavior, and comprehension of random nothingness.

  • @SquidkidMega
    @SquidkidMega 2 роки тому +1187

    This is still a funnier sitcom than “the Big Bang theory”

    • @monkeyman2590
      @monkeyman2590 2 роки тому +58

      A test pattern is funnier than The Big Bang Theory.

    • @parappathehip-hopgoblin5151
      @parappathehip-hopgoblin5151 2 роки тому +30

      This might be my favorite comment on the entire internet

    • @Sam_ijbol
      @Sam_ijbol Рік тому +2

      i was so creeped out i couldnt even find it funny sksksksk

    • @guanojuano
      @guanojuano Рік тому +8

      I enjoyed it more than the Kardashians. It has way more substances.

    • @1highlyunlikely
      @1highlyunlikely Рік тому +2

      indeed, indeed, indeed

  • @timjackson5680
    @timjackson5680 2 роки тому +515

    I loved the way the narrative was arranged in such a way that the conversation was out of time. If listened, the characters actually kept the convention flowing.

    • @marcusmiro7481
      @marcusmiro7481 Рік тому +150

      I was in high school when these were being released (as a series) and my friends and I would get high and try to carry what we called "Rabbits conversations" where we tried to talk like this for as long as we could. Seems silly but we did this all the time back in the day! lol.

    • @EdgieAlias
      @EdgieAlias 8 місяців тому +4

      @@marcusmiro7481 And now?

    • @marioguelbenzu2348
      @marioguelbenzu2348 7 місяців тому +2

      great observation, Noticed the feelings of iso😢😊lation

    • @GrantTarredus
      @GrantTarredus 7 місяців тому +2

      @@marcusmiro7481But I did not eat it.

    • @Rubrasileiro
      @Rubrasileiro 7 місяців тому +1

      ​​@@GrantTarredusIt was great to walk by his side.

  • @nibiru379
    @nibiru379 Рік тому +52

    Lynch's atmospheric background noise Makes this a constant return for me.

  • @patrickmckenna5812
    @patrickmckenna5812 7 місяців тому +107

    Lynch is an insane artistic genius. I first saw Eraserhead at the cinema way back in the day, and people were just sat there gaping at the screen. All these decades later I showed this to my partner, and she just sat there gaping at the screen! Well done David. Incredible stuff!

    • @jenniferd107
      @jenniferd107 7 місяців тому +6

      First time was college Introduction to Cinema course. Was feeling extra miserable from menstrual cycle, then watched Eraserhead. I felt stunned and disturbed, aside from physically ill, and have been a fan ever since. :)

    • @leighewinson9473
      @leighewinson9473 7 місяців тому +4

      I saw Eraserhead for the first time in a seedy theater in NY....changed me. 7:06

    • @stuartchapman5171
      @stuartchapman5171 7 місяців тому +1

      Our small market town had a festival of culture once a year for a week, whilst I was in my early teens. I saw loads of cert.18 films in a makeshift cinema. Eraserhead bring the most poignant. I dont know why and I still don't. I think it's because the narrative is irrelevant in a traditional way, it adds to the lighting, sound etc to invoke emotion, which is a slightly different experience for all of us. Genius. There's a definite vibe about a Lynch film, you can feel his hand it.

    • @sandrahealey6385
      @sandrahealey6385 6 місяців тому

      Really, as soon as I hear Eraserhead, I'm outta there! So maybe I should be gone from this one 5min and looking at the comments...
      Wish me luck!

    • @ididntagree
      @ididntagree 6 місяців тому +2

      Effing eraser head! Yes! Got to see that gem at the Egyptian in Hollywood as a anniversary or some event, changed my life .

  • @Jakuby21
    @Jakuby21 Рік тому +58

    Playing this on 2x does absolutely nothing

    • @kevinr.3542
      @kevinr.3542 8 місяців тому +6

      In this case that would actually slow it down somehow?

  • @DrQuest44
    @DrQuest44 Рік тому +50

    I think Lynch wants each of us to develop our own interpretation. Surreal.

  • @moussetache1815
    @moussetache1815 Рік тому +64

    I'm at work and watching this. No wonder I'm not exactly a popular guy. I'm totally OK with this.

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +3

      The things that others consider pipular are really dull anyway

    • @moussetache1815
      @moussetache1815 4 місяці тому +1

      @@sony7320 And maybe that's precisely why I'm totally OK with this.

    • @giorgiapalazzo4673
      @giorgiapalazzo4673 3 місяці тому

      😂​@@sony7320

  • @lostghost7915
    @lostghost7915 4 місяці тому +12

    It's great how nothing too scary happens, so your mind keeps making up potential scenarios that are actually creepy. Like I imagined that one of them suddenly screamed, or lays down in front of the door with it open, or they start running over the sofa towards the back, or a wolf comes in and kills them all, etc. It's not unlikely because it's such a surreal atmosphere, but it contradicts the slow pace. Your mind makes up all the horror.

  • @Beoulve_
    @Beoulve_ 8 місяців тому +18

    whenever i feel like world is baddy bad and me wanting ending me self, i come here

  • @gregmonks
    @gregmonks 5 місяців тому +17

    I want this played at my funeral.

  • @Lux_Ferox
    @Lux_Ferox 4 місяці тому +11

    I wish there were more film directors like David Lynch.

    • @Omanigirrl
      @Omanigirrl 5 днів тому

      Do you know other works like that?

  • @ArrDee49
    @ArrDee49 7 місяців тому +22

    David Lynch. Genius. Brilliant. Cerebral. Wiggley. Darklight. I must take my feet for a walk now.

  • @SeventiesVet
    @SeventiesVet 7 місяців тому +24

    The music is fantastical. Love the foreboding, mysteriousness, and darkness of it.

  • @ZayJayPlays
    @ZayJayPlays 3 місяці тому +6

    Playing Minecraft with this in the background is an experience.

  • @robertthompson5908
    @robertthompson5908 Рік тому +91

    I love this film so much. But I would never admit that to anyone I know because they would think I’m crazy. But you guys - a bunch of total strangers - no judgment!

    • @gravyontoast8614
      @gravyontoast8614 Рік тому +8

      You have good taste if anything

    • @Nikkilovesrats
      @Nikkilovesrats 11 місяців тому +2

      I love this film so much too! :-)

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +1

      I'd tell people I loved it
      If I had actual people to talk to 😅

    • @kyliesworld89
      @kyliesworld89 7 місяців тому

      I'm just now finding this and I'm not disappointed👏👏👏

    • @guymontag162
      @guymontag162 4 місяці тому

      This is comforting to read.

  • @GromitOPensador
    @GromitOPensador 10 місяців тому +190

    In my interpretation, the film, via metaphor, is talking about 3 rabbits who live in a natural environment, quite possibly a forest. The father of the family goes to work every day at the same time, possibly doing his duties, within the context of the forest. The laughs and the sitcom format refer to the fact that we treat such animals as spectacles, just like their more humanized form, that is, the rabbits have such a form, because it is as if the rabbits were being observed through our human prism and as humans , we often tend to project our "humanity" onto animals, however, the family context is very sad and disturbing and the audience, possibly human, treats it like a sitcom in fact, showing how this "humanistic" approach towards animals, is nothing more than a mere entertainment show for us. The background in the film refers to fire, and in scenes with enigmatic riddles the emphasis is placed on fire, we can constantly see symbols of fire in the rabbits' house, and the descriptions of the father and mother in the film refer to issues of fire and exploitation of nature in a wild and violent way, examples: Sirens, dead dogs, fire which is also mentioned, ships, etc. All of this, joining the dots makes me reconstruct that this scenario is possible. The man in the green suit could be a representation of the human being who uses symbols of ecology to perpetuate such crimes against nature. The family's concern about the father arriving late could be this, the concern about the rabbit finding a human, the reference to the character that the daughter mentions, could be a close relative, friend, or something like that who was killed due to such explorations. The issue of rain could be literal rain, representing a moment of relief for the characters, due to the chaos perpetuated in their habitat. The film also constantly uses the word "wire", which could indicate that the forest to which they belong is being increasingly reduced and limited by such wires and walls. The concern and fear when answering the phone could be a representation of the rabbit family's concern about being disturbed by humans. Finally, the final scene, showing the face of a seemingly bestial and savage figure, could be how this family of rabbits would view humans.

    • @larryslemp9698
      @larryslemp9698 7 місяців тому +7

      Awesome response!!
      Great commentary!!

    • @alejandrocurado5134
      @alejandrocurado5134 7 місяців тому +11

      I like your reading of the movie/story. Mine differs but I think that's what Lynch's aim is: to impact the viewer emotionally and let them then re-create a story of their own. Mine is more the story of what if the rabbit in Alice in wonderland could be the protagonist in a carrollian world of surrealism and lack of time symmetries. In fact, the rabbit in Alice was running late, time pressing on him like a torture. I also see the world of quantum mechanics in this "chaotic" world where coherence gets lost at times. The man in the green jacket could be the final creator/destroyer of all... The stopping of time... I can also see echoes of Donnie Darko, made the year before...

    • @MrJerryk55
      @MrJerryk55 7 місяців тому +8

      This is so ambiguous you can make up anything you want and it fits.

    • @BuddhatheRockstar
      @BuddhatheRockstar 7 місяців тому +2

      Thank you.

    • @jenniferd107
      @jenniferd107 7 місяців тому +1

      Ultimately, it is what any one of us makes of it. It could mean anything, or nothing at all...I really wanted to hear what you said, but just too many words.

  • @nismongg
    @nismongg Рік тому +44

    the ambient noise is amazing

  • @JMorgan67
    @JMorgan67 28 днів тому +3

    I... can't stop... watching. It.

  • @BrionyMinodora
    @BrionyMinodora Рік тому +97

    It’s a real conversation, it’s just scrambled but you can guess the order once you hear everything

    • @goodbye3771
      @goodbye3771 Рік тому +12

      thats what i thought too

    • @kevinr.3542
      @kevinr.3542 8 місяців тому +17

      I once saw it written out in the correct sequence and it was just like a normal conversation. The person explained how to reconstruct the order of lines. I haven't been able to find it again. There was something about it being related to a hunting accident? Or maybe not

  • @deathnotedevil
    @deathnotedevil 7 місяців тому +102

    i love how the rabbits seem to freeze when the applause happens

  • @cellardoor4199
    @cellardoor4199 Рік тому +73

    i love how he just filmed this on the fly in a shed in his backyard. and then just threw it into INLAND EMPIRE mix. I wonder if Watts, Harring, and Coffey are actually in the costumes or they just used their voices. Also, the setting reminds me of the red room from Twin Peaks, another room in another dimension.

    • @Kittiesdawn
      @Kittiesdawn 7 місяців тому +3

      He filmed it on a fly…?!

  • @jokerraton8183
    @jokerraton8183 8 місяців тому +40

    I’ll admit it, it’s hard to contain myself when suit guy walks in

  • @eric_gruby
    @eric_gruby Рік тому +55

    the background music and the rain with distant thunders are so relaxing to me :)

  • @user-bx4vo2jc9r
    @user-bx4vo2jc9r Рік тому +49

    I always wonder how Mr.Lynch explained about this project to Coffey, Harring and Watts. In my imagination it must be a diner serves a "damn" good coffee and he said, "I have a new project. It is about three people with rabbit head. They're in an apartment room...and it's some kind of comedy". Mr.Coffey replied "Woah...that sounds...". "creative" Ms.Watts said. Ms.Harring was smiling in silence.

  • @rachelmcdonough1506
    @rachelmcdonough1506 Рік тому +179

    My friend and I came up with a theory in high school that these rabbits are all holocaust victims in purgatory but they know that someday they will reincarnate, hence "I wonder who I will be". The monologues are them talking about their experiences and eventual deaths in the concentration camp and relating it to a rabbit being killed by a dog. They're turned into prey animals for the same reason. That's also why they have 40s/50s outfits.

    • @namebrandrobots1248
      @namebrandrobots1248 Рік тому +42

      One of the lines is " it was a man in a green suit".. damn u mite b right..

    • @abstraaaction
      @abstraaaction Рік тому +11

      That’s a cool way to look at it.

    • @privateryan5671
      @privateryan5671 Рік тому +48

      That would also explain the train sound that constantly repeats in the background

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +26

      I've always loved the vague descriptions of their memories of dogs snarling and dark landscapes with sinister buildings on the horizon
      Perhaps when Jack leaves the room and reenrters, he's being reincarnated into different people and lives a full life before returning to the apartment where time stands still hence why it's instantaneous

    • @baberoot1998
      @baberoot1998 7 місяців тому

      Except...Holocaust victims were Jewish. Jews do no believe in Purgatory. Purgatory...is a Christian Catholic doctrine. So no...that theory is disjointed.

  • @bmo14lax
    @bmo14lax Рік тому +83

    Love this. Come back to it every couple years.

  • @alejandrocurado5134
    @alejandrocurado5134 7 місяців тому +20

    One's interpretation can be very good, but it could be different and still be good. Thats the magic of Lynchs art in cinematic experience, subjectively framed according to individuals and their emotional character

  • @JOHNWLOUCKS
    @JOHNWLOUCKS День тому +2

    I have one or two brown wild rabbits who live on my property. They recommended this film. I am glad they did.

  • @ToddDouglasFox
    @ToddDouglasFox 7 місяців тому +21

    Each one deeply lost within their own thoughts. Lifetime after lifetime without reprieve, propagating over and over. Each lifetime ends with dogs, sharp knife, electricity, wire…hanging upside down, bleeding out, freezing to death. We sometimes think this is not what happened. Someone called, maybe a reprieve? We almost forget. It’s slow, it’s painful, it’s repetitive. But is it good that they cannot kill us for good? We cheer absent-mindedly, humor is our way. Dark emotions. Nine lives is a joke. So minimalist. Panting we stop picking up the phone. But why do we applaud just another beginning? I missed that part. I also missed the end. Nothing happens. No shame in that. Red. Again. I heard it too. Into another round. How will we meet, who will we be…next time.

    • @panguin7803
      @panguin7803 5 місяців тому +1

      hey this homie gets it. See you next spin on the dharma wheel dude-bro.

    • @ToddDouglasFox
      @ToddDouglasFox 5 місяців тому

      @@panguin7803 👍 I’m not dead yet though! And by the way, I’ve always known that I’m a rare breed of one and done.

  • @bubbaducky7961
    @bubbaducky7961 22 дні тому +3

    The moment the mother said "it is 11:15 pm. it is dark outside" i checked my clock, and it was 11:15 pm on the dot. this movie is freaking me out

  • @terri-b7492
    @terri-b7492 7 місяців тому +32

    This film is a masterpiece of cinematography.

  • @bloodrunsclear
    @bloodrunsclear 2 роки тому +538

    It took awhile to realize this was people in suits and not puppets O_O

    • @user-yq1by2kq1f
      @user-yq1by2kq1f 2 роки тому +11

      Me too lol

    • @amydecker6207
      @amydecker6207 2 роки тому +42

      I thought it was animation.

    • @DustOnTheGround01
      @DustOnTheGround01 2 роки тому +5

      bruh

    • @lp712
      @lp712 2 роки тому +7

      Then I don’t know how you and all the people who also thought they were puppets survive day to day… 🤦🏽‍♂️…

    • @bloodrunsclear
      @bloodrunsclear 2 роки тому +26

      @@lp712 You’re used to seeing people in giant rabbit suits? If that’s normal I’m not sure how I’ve survived either…

  • @Magnymbus
    @Magnymbus 2 роки тому +48

    Okay, there's actually a proper conversation happening here, it's just VERY out of order.

    • @monolithgeometry3221
      @monolithgeometry3221 Рік тому

      @TETCOM You shouldn't say so much

    • @Fraughtful
      @Fraughtful Рік тому +2

      Maybe it's meant to critique on how some people don't respond to each other. They just experience their own experience?

  • @johnunkerman
    @johnunkerman 7 місяців тому +19

    I love inappropriate audience reactions more than life itself. This is priceless!

  • @abe881
    @abe881 10 місяців тому +23

    I personally think that this is supposed to be something beyond our comprehension would look like
    We understand that they are doing something, but we don't know what, why, or how (or to who)

  • @ronagoodwell2709
    @ronagoodwell2709 7 місяців тому +12

    Nobody is going to explain this to us. Everything has been said before but heard as if for the first time. Applause. "Where was I?" Right there on the red couch. Can we assume the live audience is always rabbits? She comes and goes to no applause. Proving she must have been there all along. What monsters frequent the dreams of rabbits? Talk of endless rain, blood and dogs. It's getting late.

  • @marvo10
    @marvo10 7 місяців тому +13

    Brilliant! It was more frightening when I started understanding about half way through....

  • @nothinghere1996
    @nothinghere1996 4 місяці тому +7

    For me, this is what it would be like to live in absolute perpetual fear.

  • @WindTurbineSyndrome
    @WindTurbineSyndrome 4 місяці тому +4

    A blogger believes David Lynch understands the keys to understanding some really incredible esoteric knowledge about reality.

    • @alexpowers5117
      @alexpowers5117 Місяць тому

      Never heard of esoteric so I looked it up very interesting

  • @tomtroy3792
    @tomtroy3792 7 місяців тому +18

    I love this it has given me insights on what might be happening down in that hole in my backyard

  • @mattc.3483
    @mattc.3483 9 місяців тому +8

    I don't know why I find this environment so comforting?

  • @Runnamuka
    @Runnamuka 7 місяців тому +12

    I tried to figure this out, but never could. I know all that is going on is the script is being presented out of order. its wonderful to show someone for the first time.

  • @danii2661
    @danii2661 2 роки тому +192

    This film was used to test the effectiveness of Tylenol reducing existential dread.

    • @DFlacko664
      @DFlacko664 2 роки тому +9

      Elaborate please, is it like a untitled footage of a bear type situation

    • @HelderGriff
      @HelderGriff 2 роки тому

      .

    • @DFlacko664
      @DFlacko664 2 роки тому +2

      @doinkdoink49 wow so, wtf. Is it like that trend where kids was overdosing on Tylenol to feel high.

    • @oogooboggins5956
      @oogooboggins5956 Рік тому +4

      @doinkdoink49 damn, so Tylenol doesn't just fix physical pain, but metaphysical pain as well. That's disturbing.

    • @iverbronx
      @iverbronx Рік тому

      @@oogooboggins5956 I don’t get it

  • @youtubeisevil
    @youtubeisevil Рік тому +103

    Am I the only one who gets chills from this? Especially the laughtrack

    • @csasszer
      @csasszer Рік тому +5

      You're so special!

    • @-.CELESTE.-
      @-.CELESTE.- Рік тому

      No...it's nightmarish...for sure.....if you like atmosphere, you're in luck...ua-cam.com/video/dAbRoJcgIqA/v-deo.html

    • @vinzen14
      @vinzen14 Рік тому +2

      Lol I love this comment cuz I've watched this film a few times re watching this time the "audience" reaction is giving me chills for the first time. Amazing film

    • @davidpierce9949
      @davidpierce9949 7 місяців тому +1

      I get chills and the hairs on my neck stand up

    • @MidwestArtist
      @MidwestArtist 7 місяців тому

      I could sleep to it. Making me tired.

  • @hisfavworstnightmare
    @hisfavworstnightmare Рік тому +81

    this is literally what my dreams look like

    • @wcs9582
      @wcs9582 Рік тому +15

      bro go to a therapist

    • @selensnzl
      @selensnzl Рік тому +4

      This is a nightmare

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Рік тому +1

      If only my own dreams were like this. Like a surreal, ambient world of gloom and melancholy

    • @hisfavworstnightmare
      @hisfavworstnightmare Рік тому +3

      @@SamuelBlack84 yes they are a lot like this. the abstract conversations and empty noise. i swear i have dreamt that i was in this exact room.

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Рік тому +1

      @rebecca-may I'd like to know what's outside their apartment

  • @ravenclause
    @ravenclause 8 місяців тому +10

    I found this really really uplifting, but then again, I meditate

  • @nikozguri4167
    @nikozguri4167 Рік тому +131

    i love how the randomly misplaced laugh track and disjointed dialogue really add to the overall creepiness of these shorts.
    great job, Mr. Lynch!

    • @rahkuaschount
      @rahkuaschount 7 місяців тому +5

      The laugh and applause tracks are not placed randomly. They actually brilliantly timed.

    • @Nostrudoomus
      @Nostrudoomus 7 місяців тому +4

      The laughing track ALWAYS hit for mentions of time, date, or day of the week and other things yet undetermined. Perhaps 🤔 any mention of precision, imitating humans, for the rabbit audience is considered funny 😁?

    • @zombietrash416
      @zombietrash416 7 місяців тому

      He doesn't put anything in randomly there's always a reason for everything and his films don't strive to be "creepy." Sorry to sound like an asshole but are you new?

    • @andrewlau1910
      @andrewlau1910 6 місяців тому +2

      @@zombietrash416 just because he doesn't strive to be creepy doesn't mean it isn't creepy. No matter if it was his intent or not, this is a creepy group of shorts.

  • @jamwall1
    @jamwall1 8 місяців тому +29

    How did David Lynch know so much about my family growing up???

  • @sup.blud.
    @sup.blud. 11 місяців тому +28

    I used to love gore movies as a teenager. In college I understood the mundane as terrifying, then eventually it became the absurd and nonsensical. Now I fear myself most of all because who I am now is giving Rabbits by David Lynch and nobody understands the appeal.

    • @sup.blud.
      @sup.blud. 11 місяців тому +9

      To me, everything people say is dialog and I hear these kind of conversations everywhere. I don't believe people ever truly "say" anything. We are all in fear of so many things subconsciously that our reality is merely escapism for the truths we know deep in our psyche.

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +1

      Our existence is a manifestation of existence experiencing itself as a brief distraction from the howling meaningless chaos of eternity

  • @user-ty5ci2nx1h
    @user-ty5ci2nx1h 7 місяців тому +8

    I'm going outside to watch the grass grow.

  • @Afro.G.
    @Afro.G. Рік тому +91

    This oddly makes sense to me. There's a whole storyline. Like the characters only need to lay out a model of thought and the brain puts the rest together. This is awesome

    • @andrewlau1910
      @andrewlau1910 6 місяців тому +3

      Alright, tell me the storyline your brain put together in this.

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco9235 7 місяців тому +51

    Only a minute in, and I already feel uneasy. The lighting, the rain, the weird rabbits. I have done a lot of dangerous and life threatening things in my 60 plus years. But there are some limits...

  • @SpencerWeltmer
    @SpencerWeltmer 9 місяців тому +12

    One of those relaxing videos to fall asleep to

  • @DJ_Cthulhu
    @DJ_Cthulhu 6 місяців тому +13

    This requires multiple viewings 🖖

  • @joegover9452
    @joegover9452 3 місяці тому +2

    The one time laugh tracks were great, bravo David Lynch

  • @Brokenface
    @Brokenface 3 місяці тому +3

    My first time experiencing a Lynch movie, though a short one, very weird but fascinating.

  • @stratford1
    @stratford1 7 місяців тому +16

    I feel like I dreamed about this as a little kid

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 7 місяців тому +2

      I've had nightmares in my very early years with a similar atmosphere
      Like the one with the ventriloquist dummy screaming "I'M ME!!! I AM MEEEEE!!!!!"

  • @misteuraxe691
    @misteuraxe691 Рік тому +27

    It feels like AI-generated seinfeld

  • @ScarlettR61
    @ScarlettR61 Рік тому +52

    The oppressive laugh track seems to hint that the rabbits are being recorded for propaganda purposes, and they are constantly watched. That’s why their conversation is tampered with, they can’t say what they want to say lest some ambiguous authority finds out, so they have to make it incomprehensible and meaningless. Their actions are slow and choreographed so they don’t do something that the authority does not like. They seem afraid despite not outwardly showing it. As for the strange occurrences, I have no idea. The strange voice could be the higher authority contacting them, or something else. As for the telephone and the door opening, I don’t know, but it all serves to put you on edge and constantly in suspense for what could happen next. I suppose in that way, the rabbits are us. However I’m probably not correct. Still, like everything Lynch does, it’s riveting

  • @hArtyTruffle
    @hArtyTruffle 7 місяців тому +5

    Lynch creates the illusion of dark just as Turner painted the illusion of light. True art for sure.

  • @onebehalf6912
    @onebehalf6912 3 місяці тому +3

    This guy's been warning us for decades : this world is hiding so much from us.

  • @-Reagan
    @-Reagan 7 місяців тому +8

    Follow this up by watching Watership Down and reading Maus... you’ll never look at Beatrix Potter the same. God bless Peter Cottontail

  • @PR-ot7qd
    @PR-ot7qd 6 місяців тому +12

    This is how chatbots talked before chatgpt

    • @jupreindeer
      @jupreindeer 4 місяці тому

      But is it even more scary what current AI with all its advances could do to this... so easily.

  • @sammygadd65
    @sammygadd65 Рік тому +8

    I remember when I first saw this as a teenager and it freaked me out for ages

  • @nomanejane5766
    @nomanejane5766 4 місяці тому +6

    Omg. Cant believe im just seeing this!

  • @jupreindeer
    @jupreindeer 4 місяці тому +6

    One day, I chose a wrong turn at an intersection.
    Its pavement ended past several houses.
    I had to stop to avoid driving into an open field.
    A bunny bounced into sight in front of me.
    Several more bounded in behind it.
    Then the count was five.
    Then twelve.
    Then... too many.
    The grassy field was full of bouncing, active bunnies.
    All deciding to follow the first one.
    To where, who knows?
    I put the car in reverse and drove away.
    Where was all the non-sensical applause?

  • @boogiewoogie6844
    @boogiewoogie6844 4 місяці тому +4

    Bro why did I choose to watch this at night