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Editorial Review:
Pandora couldn't resist opening the forbidden box containing all the delusions of mankind, and let's just say David Lynch, in Mulholland Drive, indulges a similar impulse. Employing a familiar film noir atmosphere to unravel, as he coyly puts it, "a love story in the city of dreams," Lynch establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates, and nightmare visions are induced, but not before we've become enthralled by the film's two main characters: the dazed and sullen femme fatale, Rita (Laura Elena Harring), and the pert blonde just-arrived from Ontario (played exquisitely by Naomi Watts) who decides to help Rita regain her memory. Triggered by a rapturous Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," Lynch's best film since Blue Velvet splits glowingly into two equally compelling parts. --Fionn Meade

Mulholland Dr. [Region 2] Reviews:
One of my favorites, and one of Lynch's best!
2008-07-24 - It's hard for me to explain how much of an impact this film had on me. It is one of the most dreamlike experiences that I have ever had in a theatre. The first two hours of the film seem to follow a narrative -- and then there are the last 40 minutes, which will just blow you away if you have never seen this film before. After repeated viewings, I think that I have my own interpretation. The beauty of this film is that you can attach your own ideas to it, thus involving you in what goes down on the screen. It's laced with both horror and mystery, and filled to the brim with dream logic.

Totally captivating and beautiful to look at, this is a true work of art. The best time to view this film would be late in the evening, with the curtains drawn, in the dark. It's frightening, to be sure, but entirely worth it!

For the parents out there, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone under the age of 17. There are scenes of explicit sexuality throughout the film.

RECOMMENDED!


Horribly disturbing and incredible
2008-07-24 - I've seen this movie twice. I love David Lynch. Maybe it's best not to explain the plot at this point. Just watch it, and experience it, as the horrible nightmare that it is. Innocence gone bad. The horror of insanity. It's all there, in Hollywood, of course. A dreamworld.

It's beautful, horrible, and tragic. It's David Lynch. And it's one of my favorite movies ever.

One of the best of All-time! 10 NOT 5 stars !!
2008-07-09 - This should be recognized as one of the greatest works of Art ever to be committed to celluloid. Lynch is able to plumb deeply into the sub-conscious of all of us and construct a story which resonates on a primal, visceral, instinctive, and altogether natural level. Lynch shows how ultimate truth is revealed in dreams despite our feeble attempts to relegate our fears, insecurities and guilt to our subconscious during our waking hours. In dreams, all of our emotions and thoughts are fleshed out for better or for worse. Our dreams can amuse us when we do good, and terrify us when we do evil! Perhaps good and evil are absolute concepts after all, and are non-negotiable!?

While the film is highly structured and self-explanatory (for those who view it repeatedly and carefully), like most of Lynch's work, and particularly "Inland Empire," this film is so beautifully crafted that it can be appreciated solely on an aesthetic level, but ideally on an intellectual one as well.

MD is haunting, brilliant, and the work of a genius. Just when I was losing interest in superficial and banal modern film-making, David has given us a real diamond in the rough!

P.S - If you don't like challenging films which make you think and concentrate, or if your idea of a great film is about sub-woofers and explosions, avoid this at all costs. If you are amazed at human psychology and drama, don't miss this!

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Want to know who the scary, dirty Bum is?

Well, here is my take at least:

Most obviously, he is an element of her dream. All of the characters that inhabit her dream are people Diane has met or seen briefly during her waking state. Some are significant characters and some are not. Ever dream about the most absurd or trivial things yourself? For instance, notice the mafioso type at the party at the end of the movie who Diane only briefly notices as she is wiping away tears? He may have been a significant part of her life, or he may have just been someone who caused her momentary embarrassment. Here is the genius of Lynch. He is demonstrating that nothing is too trivial or absurd that cannot be dreamt about. This is why Dianne constructs the poolman farce in her dream after only a brief mention of him by Camilla's fiancé.

The dirty and horrifying bum, who is able to scare us with his abrupt appearance can represent the subconscious guilt that Diane is suffering through. He is retribution personified, of having to pay for her crimes, through mental anguish. The guy who Diane only briefly glimpses in Winkies when she is negotiating with the hitman, gives the suspenseful anecdote of "the guy who is always there." At the brief moment when Diane sees him staring at her in Winkies, she no doubt felt fear and anxiety about planning Camilla's death, or being discovered, and therefore even seemingly innocent glances take on a more suspicious nature. It is no accident that the unnamed guy standing at the bar morphs into a character in her dream that is obsessed and overcome with fear. Our dreams really do mix things up.

The bum can also be an archetype of the devil who metaphorically at least, dwells in places such as "sin city" or "tinseltown," where men lose their souls for wanting it all at any cost. These are the places where men sell their souls. Where they are promised the world, but are deceived by the great serpent and deceiver of old; the arche-nemesis of humanity.

Like any true art, Lynch allows multiple interpretations..

Not just one of Lynch's best, but one of the best movies I've ever seen.
2008-07-02 - When Mulholland Drive first starts, you may think that Lynch is making a pretty normal movie. His style is pretty much the same but the plotline is managing to remain pretty linear (for a mystery film). Slowly, but surely, we begin to slip down the rabbit hole, and things get strange. The performances are great, especially Naomi Watts. This is one of those movies where it keeps getting better scene after scene, and you have to see it again and again. What truly makes this movie great is the numerous interpretations that can be realized viewing after viewing, and the fact that Lynch is such a master, none of your interpretations can be discounted. Go see this movie. Go buy this movie. This is a definate must have.

No hay malo in this film
2008-06-23 - Just through Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, David Lynch had proven himself to be the oddest, and one of the most daring filmmakers out there; and also one of my favorites. Mulholland Drive emotionally gripped me more than any Lynch film since Blue Velvet, and it still grips me more than most films today.

First of all, the script is among the deepest I've ever seen. This is one of the only films I know of where every single person who's seen it had a different interpretation. I of course have one, but I'll not explain too much; but the sheer fact of this is just mere proof that this is a film you have to see to believe; and most of the stuff you do try to believe you might just find was not a reality and was just a trip into one's mind. Yes, this film truly is, at times, a trip into the mind, dreams, and desperate desires of one woman. There are several different things this woman can be called; I tend to view her as just human with the same desires as any other (but my views of the film definitely do not stop there).

To truly understand this film, you have to pay attention to everything; the location, the words, the context of words, the arrangement of speech, the arrangement of characters, the relationships of characters (especially between the two leading women and their relationships with others), the reasoning behind characters' acts, even the lighting, and even the smallest detail or object to the side of the screen; in this film, everything is truly important to everything else. You also must know quite a bit about actors and definitely some knowledge on classic hollywood. In this paragraph alone, David Lynch has created a true masterpiece.

I was very disappointed in the 2001 Oscars when it came to the nominations; this film got a sole nomination for Best Director. And while Lynch was certainly deserving of that, this film should've also been nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Actress for Naomi Watts (her Oscar nominated work in 21 Grams doesn't even touch her work here). Oh well then.