Mulholland Dr.
by David Lynch
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Actor: Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Laura Harring, Naomi WattsDirector: David Lynch
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Import, NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Tva Films
Movie Reviews of Mulholland Dr.
Movie Review: One of the best of All-time! 10 NOT 5 stars !!
Summary: 5 Stars
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 fianc?.
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..
Summary of Mulholland Dr.
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 MeadeArt House & International DVD Video
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