This thriller has everything: suspense, murder, wit and comedy, mystery-- though, don't ask me what it means or how it makes sense. This ranks second for me out of David Lynch favorites next to Twin Peaks.

City youth living on the streets with no cares or obligations,squatting,hustling for income; drugs,if they can score some that night.“Whenever, whatever” attitude set to Shakespearian dialogue.Take-out Chinese joints where one can play 80’s Madonna hits on the jukebox:narcolepsy,loneliness,growing up,empty roads,dilapidated houses in the country-side,Roma Italy and revisited memories.

Beware: a very thought provoking movie that will leave you trying to interpret its message for...? I saw it in 2000 and it's still on my mind. I love movies like this.

Not sure if schools like Rushmore exist: tree-lined streets where one can watch the seasons go by,a culturally diverse and motivated student body.Passes to use the bathroom or to make phone calls are not required.They still teach Latin,has every imaginable club including a bee-keepers society. No authoritarian faculty,security guards or metal detectors.A large aquarium on grounds with Piranhas.

"For...I don't know. If I knew I'd be the Almighty, who knows all. When you are born and when you die...Who knows? I don't know for what this pebble is useful but it must be useful. For if it's useless, everything is useless. So are the stars!" --The Fool

"You're sitting on a winning lottery ticket and you're too big of a pussy to cash it in." --Chuckie

"Annie, there's a big lobster behind the refrigerator. I can't get it out. This thing's heavy. Maybe if I put a little dish of butter sauce here with a nutcraker, it will run out the other side." --Alvy Singer

" [To God]I know, I know. We are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can't You choose someone else? --Tevye

"Who you think you is? You can curse nobody. Look at you. You're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all." --Albert