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In Pulpy L.A. Noir 'Under The Silver Lake,' A Man Chases Signs And Portents

There's a lot of flash and less substance in writer/director David Robert Mitchell's tale of a young man (Andrew Garfield) who sees hidden clues everywhere. But that flash is lovingly executed.
<em>Under the Silver Lake </em>is the newest film from David Robert Mitchell, who directed 2015's <em>It Follows. </em>

The first time I saw David Lynch's , I was, like so many others, bewildered. It was a movie that only made sense on a macro level, zoomed out, like an impressionist painting. I went home and found a bonanza of websites trying to decipher the movie's puzzling structure and meaning. I could see how someone would spend hours, days, years trying to parse every scene for clues, an endless quest with nearly no purpose and an

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