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Your thoughts on Mulholland Drive

posted 4 years ago by CKid (3842)
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I am in the middle of a very serious internal debate as to whether or not I should buy David Lynch's Mulholland Drive on DVD or Blu-ray.

I have never seen the film, so I have no hard evidence on which to base my decision.
What do you guys think of the film? Is it understandable? Is it enjoyable? Is it worth buying?
If truth be told, as of this post, I have no David Lynch films in my DVD/Blu-ray collection, thus this one would be the first.

I already own Mulholland Falls, a crime film set in the 1950s, which I like, so I kind of feel that I should own Mulholland Drive as well.

Oh yeah, back in 1975, I spent five months in L.A. for an extended business trip. Stayed at the Sheraton Universal for $24 per night. On several occasions, I took a drive on Mulholland Dr., so that's another factor that tempts me to add the film to my collection.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

I hated MD on first watch and I'm a Lynch fan. My opinion of it improved on a 2nd watch but I still rank it in the lower half of Lynch's work.

I am a huge fan of Inland Empire, Blue Velvet, and Lost Highway. Not a big fan of Twin Peaks. Opinions on Lynch's work are like arguments over an incomplete chess board in an asylum.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

I'm also a HUGE FAN of INLAND EMPIRE and BLUE VELVET as well, but still feel LOST about what's going on in LOST HIGHWAY.

But that's ok, because most people also feel that way about INLAND EMPIRE, thus also resulting in what you've said about how each film (or a show like TWIN PEAKS) leaves people with different reactions to them being a very accurate way to describe the situation (also love the chess board description).

What's also interesting is how MOST people also never even agreed with each other about what INLAND EMPIRE was suppose to be about. So what's your impression of what was happening in that FILM???

And WHY do you think RITA/CAMILLIA from MD shows up blowing KISSES at DERN's CHARACTER at the end of INLAND EMPIRE when RITA/C wasn't even a character in INLAND EMPIRE???

What's the connection between the 2 of them suppose to be???

Rita does grab hold of a guy who is sitting next to her who's wearing a WATCH. Could that be a clue to what's going on??? Could that be the SAME WATCH that we saw running backwards in TIME, and that we also see the PHANTOM character had PINNED to the inside of his COAT in the BONUS SECTION of the REGION ONE DVD called MORE THINGS that HAPPENED???

That was also the WATCH that is missing from the arm of the CORPSE of the MUSTASH MAN in POLAND (who also looked like he had 2 pieces missing from the forehead of his head where it looked like he'd been hit with the prying part of the end of a HAMMER).

And that's also the same WATCH that the other woman shows up wearing on her wrist when she transfers it over to DERN (because it also has that same GREENISH TINT to the FACE of it). So maybe RITA has also sold that WATCH that runs backwards to the guy who is sitting next to her in IE???

Also NOTE 📌 the way that you NEVER see the DEAD GIRL (who's name is also CAMILLA ROSE) who sings the "EVERY LITTLE STAR song" (ON the AUDITION TAPE in MD) ENTER or EXIT from that BOOTH the way that you see the other group doing who sing the other song at the AUDITION.

And you also NEVER SEE the "DEAD GIRL" standing there with them after she sings the STAR song either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2XnBsLP9lE&t=3s

Mulholland Drive - I've Told Every Little Star

But later on you do see her again at that CAST PARTY kissing RITA (the same way as you also see NAMOI IMAGINE that she sees RITA standing in her kitchen when she's NOT THERE -- and you also see Rita on the couch with her when she's also NOT really there either).

Therefore we can assume that "the DEAD GIRL" who sings the "EVERY LITTLE STAR" song wasn't really there at that CAST PARTY kissing RITA right in front of her husband to be (which is also what the CLUB of SILENCE indicates to us when the other already DEAD WOMAN sings her "CRYING" song on Stage). In other words, NAOMI's character probably only IMAGINES seeing the DEAD GIRL there at the CAST PARTY (due to the way that "SHE'S THE GIRL" who killed her).

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

one of those movies i have not yet watched and may never.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Which one one of them haven't you seen before hownos???

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Mulholland Drive

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Well basically it's about a woman (RITA/CAMILLA) who is almost killed in a LIMO when someone HIRES HIT MEN to kill her.

But then some kids come along who are RACING their cars while JOY RIDING who HIT the LIMO before the HIT MEN can kill RITA.

So as the only one who survives the ACCIDENT she stumbles down the HILL of MULHOLLAND DRIVE and ends up inside of the same apartment as NAOMI does (which is supposedly also her aunt's apartment who has left town).

Then later on in PART 2 of the story (which takes place after RITA OPENS up the BLUE BOX they got from the CLUB of SILENCE) NAOMI hires another HIT MAN again to KILL RITA/CAMILLA again.

And she also hires the SAME HIT MAN that previously also kills his friend ED -- (the HIT MAN who also ends up needing to make the the SUICIDE of his FRIEND look like a DOUBLE HOMICIDE/SUICIDE situation -- after the gun goes off while he's placing it into the hand of DEAD ED --and then the bullet goes through the wall and into the body of the other overweight woman).

So then a FAKE SUICIDE is also STAGED to look like a DOUBLE HOMICIDE/SUICIDE situation (after the JANITOR also comes along and sees the HIT MAN dragging the overweight woman into DEAD ED's office).

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[–] aliensalmon (5619) 4 years ago

It was an interesting movie with an interesting premise. I like the visuals and writing.

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

jeezus crist, do you know anything about Lynch? I'm not trying to be overly aggressive, and maybe I have too high of expectations, but other than the lamentable Dune, everything Lynch has done has a certain signature to it. If you want a conventional film that's easy to follow, don't get it. If you want a puzzle that stars Naomi Watts and is directed by um ... David Lynch, do yourself a favor and buy it, like, the year it came out.
At the very least, it's interesting. I'd love to see it again.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

This is for anyone who isn't familiar with what LYNCH does.

He makes films that are SURREALISTIC or DREAM LIKE.

Because he's also an AVANT GARDE film maker.

What is avant garde?

The amount of films regarded as Avant-garde is huge. Today, as a term applied to films, Avant-garde is used in a more open sense to refer all movie experimentally produced. Moving through the limits of narrative, time and technique, those movies are a matter of great interest to Cinema students and dilettantes.

20 Essential Films For An Introduction To Avant-Garde ...

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-essential-films-for-an-introduction-to-avant-garde-cinema/3/

Lynch's "ERASERHEAD" film (his FIRST FILM) is also listed as number 5 in this list of 20 FILMs.

Eraserhead is David Lynch’s stunning feature-length debut. A refreshment of the surrealists’ body of doctrines and a review of Kafka and Gogol’s worlds, the film is Lynch’s first major exercise of mixing reality with fantasy in a delirious, frenzied bet.

There are many ways of approaching Eraserhead. For instance, it has been stated, following its Kafkaesque influence, that it is a statement about parenthood abuse. It has been stated too, that it is a work about the anxiety caused by the imminent arrival to adulthood. Though there is something in Eraserhead that seems to elude any approach attempt, the film is a widely intimate work.

Eraserhead follows the endearing pathos of Henry Spencer, a man struggling to survive his furious girlfriend and his new born mutant child in a world he lives in.

[–] bobbydallas (8534) 4 years ago

it's aiight.

but i don't re-watch it over and over, and/or ever.

[–] joi2049 (5562) 4 years ago

Have you had a chance to see it yet???

If so, what's your impression of what happens in it???

First time I saw it I had NO CLUE what was going on, and it wasn't until watching scenes several times and discussing them that things began to make more sense.