Mulholland Drive
25, Oct. 2008
Me and Emma spent two and a half hours watching this film by David Lynch and until the last moment both were waiting for something, that would bring all the pieces of a puzzle together, making the whole picture clear. Something did not come.
After watching we read a plod, carefully going through the lines in search for a hidden meaning, still non of us can explain, what is this film about, what is the message (if any) from director to his viewer, that we did not receive.
Broken into pieces, the story was still exciting to follow.
28, Oct. 2008
Yesterday I had a conversation about it with Antonio, who names the "Mulholland Drive" as one of his favorite movies, and the picture got more clear. It turned out, that when close to the end of the film Betty and Rita open the blue box in their bedroom and then disappear and we see Diana, waking up in her room, where we have seen the dead body before, it means, that all the previous, couple of hours longs story was nothing, but her dream in which the people from her real life played complitely differnt roles!
The director creates a mysterious story, using our previous experience and thus our knowledge about the rules of the triller genre, to make us to expect, that at the end of the film all the questions will be answered and the whole picture will get completed, while at the very end simply turns it to be a dream, therefore meaningless.
Observed from this point of view, the "Mulholland Drive" is a masterpiece!