Sigmund Freud, who was, strangely enough, suffering from a neurotic disorder, never looked into his patients’ eyes. Never admitting that a neurotic disorder was the reason, Freud and his followers – later theoreticians of psychoanalysis – explained that it was only possible to get the “freedom of association” if the doctor’s and the patient’s eyes did not meet. Lynch goes further in this wish to get free associations: he reveals the subconscious of his characters without even being present beside them or anywhere in the near, not speaking about looking into their eyes.

This 2006 comedy by Woody Allen has been heavily criticized in numerous newspaper/Internet reviews for reasons that remain a mystery to me. Among the main arguments for such unfavourable judgments the following seem to outnumber all the rest: it lacks meaning, being just a trifling time-killer at best; the plot is unconvincing and abounds in holes; there is nothing original in it – all that this film has to offer has been already seen somewhere else and better done, too. Well, all these things I completely disagree with and I will try to explain why.