Rabbits (2002) A Short Film by David Lynch
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- 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
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This is what David Lunch sees when he watches a normal sitcom
David Lunch seems like an interesting director.
DAVID FUCKING LUNCH
@@RublevKovacs Pencilface is another good one
@@ComplexFantasiesIndustries yh but i find the lady in the elevator strange and when she sings 'in hell' i get rly scared
@@RublevKovacs Yeah… it was something something, but it was not as bad as the scene where Henry X’s face comes off and then his face gets turned into pencil shavings
When life does not make sense.... you watch a David Lynch story, and you remember there are things that make way less sense...
the horror starts when his work starts to make sense...
@@nighteatingyou Mulholland drive nearly did.
best comment ever. Im certain hed be flattered.
😂
🤣🤣
Rabbits is filmed in front of a slightly terrified studio audience
What if there wasn't an audience? Just recordings and rows of empty chairs
@@SamuelBlack84 Inland Empire spoilers!
I wanna like this comment but I won’t disturb the 69
LOL..thats great
I was going to say "in front of a contrived studio audience" but that works too
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😂
That's so funny!
Damn,, u sad
I used to do the same thing with El Topo
Lmao that'd be hilarious 😂
that happens too when I play Bjork music
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.
Or, their minds can't process a more familiar form of conversation and can only interpret the world in a fragmented way
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?
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.
I agree
@@ernestbuchanan5305 sick take
I’m at the worst point in my life right now mentally and somehow this is comforting
Not alone
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.
literally, it's 6am rn and I'm watching this like it's a normal movie- my mental state is not the best rn🤣
no one called today
For me also
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.
Here it is, in order. There is a linearity:
1. **7:00 PM** (inferred)
- I hear someone.
- There is something I would like to say to you, Suzie.
- Oh?
- I have heard those things being said before.
2. **8:35 PM**
- I was speaking about the other night.
- I do not know where Jack is.
- I was near the harbor after it happened.
- It was raining.
- Who was on the phone?
- It is still raining.
3. **11:15 PM**
- It is 11:15 PM, it is dark outside.
- Quiet.
- Let me tell you.
- I do not think it is the rain.
- He goes to work each morning, and then he comes back home each night.
4. **Post-Midnight**
- It's past midnight!
- All day.
- There is something here!
- It happened like that earlier.
- Who could have known?
- I heard it too.
- Do not forget what I have told you.
- And then, there it was.
- No. Nothing.
- Well then, it must be very dark.
"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.
Yellow saliva
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
I make a comment about this.
maybe thats why theres a blonde girl in the window and why her shadows are of two rabbits
@@ToddDouglasFox I think I’m beginning to remember
Naomi Watts had to grow her ears out for this one. You can barely tell it’s her. What a great actress!
I wonder who I will be
Wow! I thought I was the only one that finds her terribly depressing. I cannot sit through her movies.
so little actresses would transform into a rabbit for a role
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.
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
Wow I never thought of that - you are right
great take on it
@@iverbronx thank u :3
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.
@@Avoidiacdark AF tbh..
This is exactly my experience of watching Friends
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
They also cheered for the one in the pink robe a few times, oh and Suzie too
@@perfectbreakfastthey cheer whenever anyone that was outside enters the room
@@flowrepins6663Exactly and also the one in the pink robe also got cheered just for crossing the room from the ironing corner to the couch
Amazing how Lynch managed to create AI Seinfeld 20 years before AI Seinfeld. The man is a true visionary.
It's gold, Jerry. GOLD!
ROFL!
AI Seinfeld was inspired by Rabbits
Rabbit karmr?
I thought it reminded me of seinfeld too lol
Perhaps the most successful artist who has attempted to get dream logic on film imho.
the comment i was looking for.. he nails it
i love that train sound in the background. the pulsating hum is hypnotic
More of a foghorn.
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.
Creepy !
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.
i love how the rabbits seem to freeze when the applause happens
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....
This film is horrible!! ........
...SIKE!!!..😆..it's actually a mindblowing masterpiece...I'm jealous of his talent...one day I'll be like him czcams.com/video/dAbRoJcgIqA/video.html
Similar feeling to when I am alone at night in a forest in winter.
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
This film is a masterpiece....also,have fun with this atmospheric gem from my blood sweat and tears czcams.com/video/dAbRoJcgIqA/video.html
Very well said
This would’ve been nightmare fuel to me 10 years ago, but now, this is comforting.
Lol i love this comment
is there a comment?
David Lynch makes such great use of radiators, sick colored walls, the sounds of remote industry....
Existential ruralism
Donny Darko origin story...
Watching this entire series at 12 years old probably did more damage than I intended
I saw far more horrible things at that age
12?.....i hope it didnt mess u up too bad...it would have messed with my head at 12.....i would have thought of it the same way i regarded the shining which i saw around the same age
@@TETCOM. ye im 18 now, I was pretty obsessed with CZcams creepy pastas and obscure films at the time.
I never understood what was supposed to be so scary about that film. Like most of Kings work, it was ridiculous, sexist and pretentious.
@@SamuelBlack84 is that a flex or something
This looks like smth straight out of the Courage the Cowardly Dog universe
Or salad fingers
Love, love that show.
Best Cartoon Network show ever
It is like watching people serve prison time inside someone else's mind.
It’s distance...
We are all distanced, out of synch.
This is how I piece together my days.
You ARE alone.
Shit
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.
An unsettling yet hypnotic dream of a sitcom dystopia.
This is still a funnier sitcom than “the Big Bang theory”
A test pattern is funnier than The Big Bang Theory.
you'll laugh more at this than u will big bang theory czcams.com/video/V6djMa0SGHY/video.html
This might be my favorite comment on the entire internet
i was so creeped out i couldnt even find it funny sksksksk
I enjoyed it more than the Kardashians. It has way more substances.
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.
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.
@@marcusmiro7481 And now?
great observation, Noticed the feelings of iso😢😊lation
@@marcusmiro7481But I did not eat it.
@@GrantTarredusIt was great to walk by his side.
"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.
This film is a masterpiece of cinematography.
I don't no why i liked this but i couldn't stop watching.
This is one of my earliest memories of the internet- my dad used to watch every short Lynch was putting up at the time.
Lynch's atmospheric background noise Makes this a constant return for me.
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.
Awesome response!!
Great commentary!!
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...
This is so ambiguous you can make up anything you want and it fits.
Thank you.
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.
the ambient noise is amazing
Playing this on 2x does absolutely nothing
In this case that would actually slow it down somehow?
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.
Most relatable comment.
For the record.."I am going to find out one day" is a mindblowing way to start this amazing film...this is an insane masterpiece..probably his best work ever..artistically speaking...I actually made this short film to the eraserhead soundtrack..it's only about 3 minutes or so..maybe you'll like it czcams.com/video/V6djMa0SGHY/video.html
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.
There are 2 light sources.
I want this played at my funeral.
Whoa.
The music is fantastical. Love the foreboding, mysteriousness, and darkness of it.
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!
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. :)
I saw Eraserhead for the first time in a seedy theater in NY....changed me. 7:06
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.
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!
Effing eraser head! Yes! Got to see that gem at the Egyptian in Hollywood as a anniversary or some event, changed my life .
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...
David Lynch. Genius. Brilliant. Cerebral. Wiggley. Darklight. I must take my feet for a walk now.
I think Lynch wants each of us to develop our own interpretation. Surreal.
I wish there were more film directors like David Lynch.
It’s a real conversation, it’s just scrambled but you can guess the order once you hear everything
thats what i thought too
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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
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)
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.
One of the lines is " it was a man in a green suit".. damn u mite b right..
That’s a cool way to look at it.
That would also explain the train sound that constantly repeats in the background
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
Except...Holocaust victims were Jewish. Jews do no believe in Purgatory. Purgatory...is a Christian Catholic doctrine. So no...that theory is disjointed.
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.
whenever i feel like world is baddy bad and me wanting ending me self, i come here
Playing Minecraft with this in the background is an experience.
I'm at work and watching this. No wonder I'm not exactly a popular guy. I'm totally OK with this.
The things that others consider pipular are really dull anyway
Maybe, the reason your not popular at work is because you don't work.
@@sony7320 And maybe that's precisely why I'm totally OK with this.
😂@@sony7320
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
the background music and the rain with distant thunders are so relaxing to me :)
Rabbits to chill and relax to 😂
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.
He filmed it on a fly…?!
Love this. Come back to it every couple years.
It's a masterpiece for sure...I think this is as well czcams.com/video/dAbRoJcgIqA/video.html
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!
You have good taste if anything
I love this film so much too! :-)
I'd tell people I loved it
If I had actual people to talk to 😅
I'm just now finding this and I'm not disappointed👏👏👏
This is comforting to read.
A blogger believes David Lynch understands the keys to understanding some really incredible esoteric knowledge about reality.
this is literally what my dreams look like
bro go to a therapist
this is ur dream?
This is a nightmare
If only my own dreams were like this. Like a surreal, ambient world of gloom and melancholy
@@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.
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.
The one time laugh tracks were great, bravo David Lynch
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?
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.
hey this homie gets it. See you next spin on the dharma wheel dude-bro.
@@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.
Am I the only one who gets chills from this? Especially the laughtrack
You're so special!
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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
I get chills and the hairs on my neck stand up
I could sleep to it. Making me tired.
This requires multiple viewings 🖖
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
Alright, tell me the storyline your brain put together in this.
I was going to complain that the audio is slightly off, but then again, everything is slightly off.
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.
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.
Our existence is a manifestation of existence experiencing itself as a brief distraction from the howling meaningless chaos of eternity
The soundscape is beautiful
It took awhile to realize this was people in suits and not puppets O_O
Me too lol
I thought it was animation.
bruh
Then I don’t know how you and all the people who also thought they were puppets survive day to day… 🤦🏽♂️…
@@lp712 You’re used to seeing people in giant rabbit suits? If that’s normal I’m not sure how I’ve survived either…
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.
I don't know why I find this environment so comforting?
i love how the randomly misplaced laugh track and disjointed dialogue really add to the overall creepiness of these shorts.
great job, Mr. Lynch!
The laugh and applause tracks are not placed randomly. They actually brilliantly timed.
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 😁?
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?
@@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.
I feel like I dreamed about this as a little kid
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!!!!!"
Follow this up by watching Watership Down and reading Maus... you’ll never look at Beatrix Potter the same. God bless Peter Cottontail
since the first time i saw this, i have never been able to forget when today is friday
speaking of which, today is friday
It’s Friday for me too crazy shit maaaannnn
Okay, there's actually a proper conversation happening here, it's just VERY out of order.
yeah....somewhat true.....but u were never really meant to put in in order
@@TETCOM. You shouldn't say so much
Maybe it's meant to critique on how some people don't respond to each other. They just experience their own experience?
Omg. Cant believe im just seeing this!
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.
I still have the impression that the ending offers a glimmer of hope.
I love inappropriate audience reactions more than life itself. This is priceless!
I found this really really uplifting, but then again, I meditate
For me, this is what it would be like to live in absolute perpetual fear.
One of those relaxing videos to fall asleep to
Bro why did I choose to watch this at night
This is how my brain works when I'm coming off of Benadryl on no sleep.
"Did I remember to be a pigeon today? What did that taste like?"
i want to see the rest of the house
Brilliant! It was more frightening when I started understanding about half way through....
I love this it has given me insights on what might be happening down in that hole in my backyard
This film was used to test the effectiveness of Tylenol reducing existential dread.
Elaborate please, is it like a untitled footage of a bear type situation
.
@doinkdoink49 wow so, wtf. Is it like that trend where kids was overdosing on Tylenol to feel high.
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@doinkdoink49 damn, so Tylenol doesn't just fix physical pain, but metaphysical pain as well. That's disturbing.
DAVID LYNCH'S "RABBITS" (2002)
"In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three
rabbits live with a fearful mystery"
7/26/2019 David Lynch Rabbits Script
2/8
DAVID LYNCH'S "RABBITS" (2002)
Scene 1
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
We see a gloomy room lightened only with lampshade and standard-
lamp. There are two women in the rabbit costumes in the room. One
of them (JANE), dressed in white, sits on the red sofa near the
lampshade. The second one (SUZIE), dressed in red, stands in the
left corner of the room near the standard-lamp, and irons the same
piece of clothing over and over again. There is a door at the
left side of the screen. Near the door we can see an old black
telephone. There is another room on the background. We can hear
the rain outside.
After a long time the door opens, and a man in the rabbit costume
(JACK), dressed in a black suit, comes into the room. His
entrance is accompanied by the rapturous applause of an unseen
audience. After the applause has grown silent, Jack takes his
place on the sofa.
JANE: I'm going to find out one day.
SUZIE: When will you tell it?
JACK: Were there any calls?
JANE: What time is it? (Audiences laughing)
JACK: (Stands up) I have a secret.
JANE: There have been no calls today. (Audiences laughing)
JACK: (sitting back) I am not sure
SUZIE stops ironing, and goes to the sofa. We hear the applause.
SUZIE stops behind the sofa.
JACK: A coincidence.
SUZIE: (laughs)
JANE: Do not forget that today is Friday. (Audiences laughing)SUZIE: Where was it?
We hear steps outside
7/26/2019 David Lynch Rabbits Script
3/8
JACK: I hear someone.
JANE: There is something I would like to say to you, Suzie.
(Audiences laughing)
JACK stands up and goes out the room.
Scene 2
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JANE sits on the sofa near the lampshade. SUZIE stands behind the
sofa. They both stare at the door. The door opens, and JACK comes
back into the room.
(We hear the audience's applause. After the applause has grown
silent, Jack takes his place on the sofa.)
SUZIE: Oh? (Audiences laughing)
JACK: It must be after 7:00 PM
SUZIE: I have heard those things being said before.
JACK: I will bet you are both wondering.
JANE: It is still raining.
SUZIE: I have misplaced it. I am sure of it now.
JANE: All day. (Audiences laughing)
JACK: It was a man in a green suit.
SUZIE: Why?
JACK: It may even be later.
SUZIE: I am going to get them.
SUZIE goes into the adjoining room.
Scene 3
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JACK stands up and sits back.
JACK: Where was I?
JANE: I only wish that they would go somewhere.
JACK: I almost forgot.
JACK goes out of the room and comes back soon. We hear the
audience's applause. After the applause has grown silent, JACK
takes his place on the sofa.
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JACK: Were you blonde? (Pause)Suzie?
JANE: I could hear it also.
JACK: When it happens, you will know it.
Suddenly the light turns off. SUZIE comes back into the room
carrying two lighting candles.(We see the RED RABBIT a
frightening and weird figure in the upper left corner of the wall.
The RED RABBIT speaks loud incoherent strange language.)The RED
RABBIT disappears. SUZIE goes out of the room. The light turns on.
SUZIE comes back into the room without candles and stops behind
the sofa.
Scene 4
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
SUZIE comes in and the living room is empty
SUZIE: Something's wrong. Cold. Siren. Dark. Smiling teeth. Moving
wing, fingers. Smoke. Oil. Heat. Mirror. Smear of blood. Eye
opened. Darkness. All wet. But in bed. Thorn. Bug in bed,
crawling. Over? Moose.
DISAPPEARS
Scene 5
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JACK and JANE sits on the sofa near the lampshade. SUZIE stands
behind the sofa.
SUZIE: There was a call for you, earlier in the day.
JACK: We are not going anywhere.
SUZIE: I almost forgot.
JACK: I knew that was what happened each time I thought about it.
JANE: Are you going to tell?
JACK: It is the rain.
JANE: I was wondering when Suzie was going to do that.
JACK: Who was it?
SUZIE: (looking to the side) It must be the rain.
JANE: It is 11:15 PM, it is dark outside. (Audiences laughing)
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JACK: Quiet.
JACK stands up and goes to the door, leaves the room and back soon
with audiences applause.
JACK: Let me tell you.
JANE: I do not think it is the rain.
SUZIE: He goes to work each morning, and then he comes back home
each night.
JACK: It may have been a coincidence.
SUZIE sits down between JACK and JANE.
JANE: It did not happen that way.
Scene 6
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JACK comes in and the living room is empty
JACK: Distant siren. An old warm rug. A dog crawls. Something's
wrong. Something's wrong. The dog crawls. Lights blown out. A
wind. Dark. Smiling teeth. A swollen tongue. The dog crawls.
The socket drips. Disease. Hot. Electricity. Barbed wire. Sharp.
Tearing open, red. And wiggling, wet dogs. Running swollen blue
feet. Tearing, scraping. Black, old blood. Yellow saliva. Darkroom. Broken window. Green tear. Vinyl. Knife. Blood. Burn. Bulb.
Legs high. Cold.
DISAPPEARS
Scene 7
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
SUZIE stands in the left corner of the room near the standard-
lamp, and irons the same piece of clothing over and over again
while JANE is sitting on the sofa.
JANE: When did you say that?
SUZIE: It was the voice of a man.
JANE: I do not think it will be much longer now.
SUZIE: Where is it that you think I meant? (Audiences Laughs)
JANE: I was speaking about the other night.
SUZIE: I do not know where Jack is.
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JANE: I was near the harbor after it happened. It was raining.
SUZIE: It is 8:35 PM.
JANE: Who was on the phone?
SUZIE: It is still raining.
JACK comes into the room and sit-down on the sofa
JANE: It has always been like that.
JACK: When did you go out?
JANE: I have known since I was seven.
JACK: It happens all the time.
The phone rings for a long while and no one answers. Then JACK
answer without talk.
SUZIE: There is no moon tonight.
JANE: I said it looks like it is still raining.SUZIE: Where was it exactly, do you remember?
JANE: Is it that late?
JACK :(sitting again) Since then?
SUZIE: And getting darker.
Scene 8
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JANE comes in and the living room is empty
JANE: An old warm rug. A dog crawls. Something's wrong. The dog
crawls. Lights blow out. A wind. Dark. Smiling teeth. A swollen
Tongue. The dog crawls. The socket drips. Disease.Hot.
Electricity. Barbed wire. Sharp. Tearing open, red. And wiggling,
wet dogs. Running swollen blue feet. Tearing, scrapping. Black,
oil blood. Yellow saliva. Dark room. Broken window. Band Aid, old
grease cotton. Green tear. Vinyl knife. Steam blood. Burn. Bulk.
Chord. Bugs wiggle on their backs. Legs high. Ceiling drip. Cold
distant siren. Distant ships. Distant ships. Distant ships. Moving
wing. Fingers. Old skin. Smoke. Oil heat. Mirror. Smear of blood.
Eye opens darkness.
DISAPPEARS
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Scene 9
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
SUZIE stands in the left corner of the room but she isntironing
anymore. JACK and JANE are sitting on the sofa looking at other.
JANE: I saw it too.
JACK: I am not sure.
JANE: I went earlier, when it was just light.
JACK: I need to tell you something.
SUZIE: It was red.
JACK: Did he say anything? (Audiences laughs)
SUZIE: You could not do anything?
JANE: No one can know about this.
SUZIE LEAVES THE ROOM
JANE: It happened to me only once.
JACK LEAVES THE ROOM
JANE: It's past midnight!
JACK ENTERS TO THE ROOM (AUDIENCES APLAUSE)
JANE: All day.
SUZIE: There is something here! (FROM THE OTHER ROOM)
JANE: It happened like that earlier.
JACK: Who could have known?
Suddenly the light turns off. SUZIE comes back into the room
carrying two lighting candles (AGAIN). We see the RED RABBIT again
but this time is shortly
SUZIE: I heard it too.
JACK: Do not forget what I have told you.
The door opens by itself and the rabbits look at that. We hear a
scream and the lights go off suddenly. SUZIE goes to close the
door and the scene comes back to normality
SUZIE: And then, there it was.
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JACK: No. Nothing.
JANE: Well then, it must be very dark.
JACK: It was the man in the green coat.
SUZIE sits down between JACK and JANE.
JANE: I wonder who I will be.
END.
How did David Lynch know so much about my family growing up???
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
Lynch creates the illusion of dark just as Turner painted the illusion of light. True art for sure.
It feels like AI-generated seinfeld
I’ll admit it, it’s hard to contain myself when suit guy walks in
He's a riot !!
I wonder if when they talk about hearing something, if it is the cheering, and they are trying to figure out what it is, and where it is coming from
This is how chatbots talked before chatgpt
But is it even more scary what current AI with all its advances could do to this... so easily.