Page 1 of Mulholland Drive **SPOILER**

Did this make any sense to anybody here or is it even worth talking about? I got the dvd out on saturday night and am wondering if I should bother continuing to try and understand it or just let it go and curse David Lynch up and down forever more.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 14th August 2002, 17:18

from what i could remember, i reckon the first part of the film was essentially a dream - dianne/betty`s dream...or nightmare...and then she wakes up in the second half...hmmm...

although you may think that this is a bit cheating (after all the point of watching a piece of entertainment is to make your own mind up) if you want to have a better handle on all that is going on in the film then check out:

http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/10/23/mulholland_drive_analysis/index.html

this really is an excellent breakdown of the film with loads of questions that i never even thought of asking (even though i had worked out what was happening first time round, not because im clever but because i`ve seen Lost Highway and struggled with that).

hope this helps

mat

It certainly is decodable, at least, most of it is: I still haven`t heard a convincing explanation for the `Silencio` sequence. The real question is whether or not you can be bothered, given there`s little beneath its cryptic surface than a standard tale of obsessive love.

--Mike

aha, the fog clears.....

good article - never really watched lynch before so anything he does would strike a newcomer as strange - remember `lost highway` as being totally incomprehensible and have since read that its not one of his best but i`m sure there must be a story in there somewhere now. don`t know if i could be arsed checkin it out tho...

after all that, i like mulholland dr. now - not because its a good lynch flick, but because of the whole subject it addresses i.e. betty/diane`s illusions about herself; a tragic character.