Mulholland Drive

Oct 11 14:48 UTC 2003

I finally watched Mulholland Drive. What the hell was it about? I got totally
lost after the Opera scene. I know many of you have seen it, so explain

response 2 of 36:

Oct 11 17:35 UTC 2003

[SPOILER ALERT!  If you haven't seen the film but think you might
 someday, you may not want to read further.]


If you're going to get lost, the opera scene is certainly the place
to do it.  The plot takes a distinctly bizarre right turn at that
point.  Suddenly the whole universe built up in the first part of
the film comes apart.  Characters change names and roles.  Lines of
dialog that we heard in the first part of the film are repeated but
have entirely different meanings.

My theory is that the Naomi Watts character is seriously paranoid
and delusional, and the film is meant to show how things look
from her perspective.

response 4 of 36:

Oct 12 22:32 UTC 2003

This movie makes perfect sense....if you're a guy.
The chick that got thrown from the plane is an analogy to the VC pow that they
questioned and thru from the helicopter.
Sheesh...I bet if it had a romantic theme(instead of a byline) you would
understand it fully. No biggie....chick flicks don't make sense to me either.

response 6 of 36:

Oct 13 12:51 UTC 2003

Yeah sabre, the only "plane scene" was not even that, just a hot of Betty
coming ot of the airport. There was more of an erotic theme, that I
understood, just confused as to how it tied up with the first half of the
movie.

response 8 of 36:

Oct 14 17:25 UTC 2003

Back to Mulholland Drive, I think the part where Rita/Camilla opens 
that box with the funky blue key signifies "Pandora's  Box" It was as 
if she unlocked the whole episode that led to her present state

response 10 of 36:

Oct 16 13:00 UTC 2003

(Welcome to Grex.  "It gets easier."(tm)  ;-)

Right, what ended up as the movie was originally supposed to be a
mini-series a la "Twin Peaks", on ABC I think.  At some point, Lynch
and the network had a parting of the ways.  Not surprising.  TV
may be a lot more permissive now than it was a few decades ago, but
even nowadays there's content in "Mulholland Drive" that I have
trouble imagining that a broadcast network would allow in prime
time.

Actually, I'm glad that "Mulholland Drive" was released as a
theatrical film.  Lynch got to do it the way he wanted to.
Your mileage may vary, but I think "Mulholland Drive" is close
to being Lynch's best work, and it's one of my favorite movies
of the last few years.

response 12 of 36:

Oct 16 14:58 UTC 2003

?
i agree, though another Lynch TV show would have been great, A third series
of Peaks would have been amazing, and on the air was hilarious!...u should
check that out

response 14 of 36:

Oct 16 16:27 UTC 2003

They should've done "Twin Peaks" as a limited-run miniseries.
Instead, they tried to stretch it out into a regular series and,
as is too often the case, tended to run out of good ideas before
they ran out of film.

response 16 of 36:

Oct 16 22:28 UTC 2003

i totally agree, the second series had LOADS more going for it than the
first!, its just more of what u come to expect from a D Lynch story...the
whole Wyndam Earl plot was great!

response 18 of 36:

Oct 17 10:11 UTC 2003

he wrote a great deal of Peaks and directed a couple of the episodes as well,
as he was busy shooting Wild at Heart at the time, the other guy was called
Mark Frost (who he did on the air with as well)...lynch added the dark
atmospheric parts and Frost added the TV/Comedy feel to it...it was a good
combo!

response 20 of 36:

Oct 18 21:25 UTC 2003

  That's a start, but frankly it'd take an awful lot to explain
  just what made "Fire: Walk With Me" such a trainwreck.

response 22 of 36:

Oct 22 13:57 UTC 2003

Oh God, please, spare us!

response 24 of 36:

Oct 23 10:06 UTC 2003

it keeps almost getting released and then not!!...its fgrustrating as lynch
is my favourite director and i'd love to see the full version!