Mulholland drive is a twisting, turning road that tells a story of the history of hollywood. The hit man gives it to bettydiane, to inform her that the job is done. Why mulholland drive is the essential david lynch film. If anyones interested in further detail from this post, theres actually an entire website dedicated to analyzing david lynchs 10 clues and deconstructing the entire film. Perhaps mulholland drive can be seen as the first surrealist film of the 21st century. Since my last project was inspired by mulholland drive i felt it was only right i go and see it again. Mulholland drive has come to be regarded as perhaps the most important film of the century so far. David lynch has been working toward mulholland drive all of his career, and now that hes arrived there i forgive him wild at heart and even lost highway. Unstable ontologies and semiotic markers in the thirteenth floor, dark city and mulholland drive.
Everything you were afraid to ask about mulholland drive. With naomi watts, laura harring, justin theroux, jeanne bates. Yes, theres actually a legit explanation for mulholland. Oct 24, 2001 mulholland drive is a movie along those lines, though its filmic palette is broader, its setting hollywood and the film industry more portentous, and its themes plainer. Mulholland drive is the location of ritas accident in the dream sequence, whereas in real life the limo ride culminated in the dinner party where camilla and adam kesher announced their engagement in front of diane.
Here, david thomson explores david lynchs strange, disturbing allure of this contemporary. Mulholland drive isnt like memento, where if you watch closely enough you can hope to explain the mystery. Jan 17, 2002 mulholland drive is a twisting, turning road that tells a story of the history of hollywood. Film critics and one of the producers of mulholland drive weigh in on the movies extraordinary staying power. For reasons that become progressively clearer, her life has reached a point of desperate crisis that has driven her into a suicidal depression. Is there a logical explanation of the plot of mulholland drive. Mulholland drive david lynch film analysis senses of cinema. There are a few questions about this film, all basically asking what its about. Oct 10, 2015 film is a medium meant to be interpreted by the viewer, and any analyses of mulholland drive or any other film that differ from the norm are perfectly acceptable.
Why david lynchs mulholland drive is the best movie of the. The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we cant stop watching it. You can experience nonlinear narrative style during this movie. This movie doesnt feel incomplete because it could never be completeclosure is not a goal. At last his experiment doesnt shatter the test tubes. There was a time not too long ago when if you asked me what my favorite movie was i might have told you mulholland drive. David lynch is one of my favourite directors and mulholland drive is one of my favourite films. As shutter island, mulholland drive is a film about dissociation, but in spite of scorseses main interest into assembling a great human drama within his movies, lynch prefers to be exclusively focused on the oneiric dimension.
Mulholland drive is a story about a woman named diane selwyn who is experiencing an extreme mental and emotional breakdown. May 24, 2017 mulholland drive was shot by dp peter deming, who is also the cinematographer behind lynchs lost highway as well as all 18 episodes of the new season of twin peaks. Elements of film noir, musical, caper films can be identified in lynchs films. Why mulholland drive is the greatest film since 2000 bbc.
Though this analysis may not be exact its possible only david lynch knows without question the meaning of mulholland drive, it is the greatest agreedupon understanding of what the film is about as far as lynch intended. Jan 27, 2019 as shutter island, mulholland drive is a film about dissociation, but in spite of scorseses main interest into assembling a great human drama within his movies, lynch prefers to be exclusively focused on the oneiric dimension. Sep 04, 2016 at the dawn of the 21st century david lynch released his confusing and ambiguous masterpiece. David lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird.
Lynchs favourite film is sunset boulevard, but this road tells a different story, one set at the edge. Why has mulholland drive topped bbc cultures poll of the greatest films of the 21st century. The film presents a puzzle, and far be it from me or any dusty old theory to offer one pat solution. Sunset is the famous story of a washed up silent movie actress who loses her mind and becomes lost in an obsessive fantasy of her own making, leading to the death of a young screen writer who becomes her consort. Is mulholland drive the greatest film of the 21st century. On one hand, you have those who were certain there was a logical, understandable story line throughout. Mulholland drive was supposed to be the pilot for an abc tv series that was going to both make abc the network of the moment and put lynch back into a twin peakslike limelight. I suspect the best way to appreciate mulholland drive is simply to experience it as a series of scenes, each one with a power and consistency of its own, that do not add up to a logical plot summary, or cannot be reduced to an explanationalthough. Mulholland drive is the greatest study of a dream and therefore. Mulholland drives own troubled history, and the studio politics and power plays depicted by lynch in the film itself, hardly feel like coincidences. Apr 14, 2017 mulholland drive is as brilliant and disquieting as anything lynch has ever done. Mulholland drive 2001 is a neonoir mysterycrime film starring naomi watts, laura harring, and justin theroux. Apr, 2017 almost since its 2001 release, mulholland drive has been hailed as not only a great film but also as the greatest of the 21st century so far.
Analysis of david lynch s mulholland drive 67 words. I suspect the best way to appreciate mulholland drive is simply to experience it as a series of scenes, each one with a power and consistency of its own, that do not add up to a logical plot summary, or cannot be reduced to an explanationalthough various patterns and narratives form out of the mist and then evaporate. Mulholland drive has been analyzed several times from different approaches ranging from gender love, 2004, narratology lentzner, 2005. A dream analysis posted on june 15, 2014 june 15, 2014 by cenca adrian after an unusual the straight story, the master of mindblowing surrealism, david lynch, came out with the highly acclaimed mulholland drive, a neonoir mystery thriller which draws on dream interpretation. The first part has the two main characters betty and rita, following their investigation into the mystery of ritas identity, which eventually blossoms into a sexual relationship between the two characters, as well as the storyline of adam kesher and the making of his film. Encouraging audiences to participate in that analysis that dissection is an.
Mulholland drive city of nightmares film analysis by rob ager. Like so many others, i thought the movie mulholland drive was an inspired work. Diane selwyn naomi watts is the true subject of the film, and shes undergoing a mental breakdown. Everything you were afraid to ask about mulholland drive revised and updated. The true genius of mulholland drive is in the way that it employs an intricate language of symbolism and metaphor that would give even a complex novel a run for its money. How can one interpret the narrative chronology of mulholland. Mulholland drive is said to have been assembled from scenes that he shot for a 1999 abc television pilot, but no network would air or understand this material, and lynch knew it. Apr 15, 2018 mulholland drive is a film that is split in two different parts. Mulholland drive discussion spoilers yeah, im sure there are already plenty of discussions on this movie but i really wanted to share my thoughts and ask some questions, especially to fans of the film and this seems like the best place to do it. David lynchs mulholland drive may be a brilliant movie but do. The drivers are killed but the woman emerges from the wreck. Probably no film has caused as much consternation as david lynchs mulholland drive 2001. Mulholland drive can be a really confusing movie if.
The perfect shots of mulholland drive film school rejects. The first part of the analysis focuses on the content, production history and the interpretation of the movie based on the opening sequence of mulholland drive. The majority of the movie was filmed as a pilot for the proposed tv series, and, as such, it was structured to open up story lines that would take an entire season, and perhaps multiple seasons. Suddenly, the driver stops and orders her out of the car at gunpoint. Oct 27, 2016 watch mulholland drive on tribeca shortlist. Watts is the woman asleep in her room, having a bizarre dream about all of the things that went wrong. He takes his financing where he can find it and directs as fancy dictates. Mulholland drive is a film that lends itself to different readings. We should be careful not to let all this analysis detract from a fantastic film. In mulholland drive, what happened at club silencio. Lynch had shot the 90minute pilot called mulholland drive and showed it to the. In the meantime, a wellknown filmmaker is strongarmed by mafia into casting their actress of choice in the leading role of his film, and a. The first and second halves of the movie feel like parallel universes, with the same actors playing similar but different characters with the names all. Theres a lot going on in the film and i certainly wont claim to understand all of it something i might have done when it was my favorite movie, but i do have a reading of it that seems to answer a lot of the questions it poses, so.
May 22, 2014 sunset boulevard, the dark 1950 film directed by billy wilder, shares many parallels to mulholland drive. It is psychotically lucid, oppressively strange, but with a powerfully erotic and humanly intimate dimension that. For the first two hours of the film what i will call the fantasy narrative the viewer is lulled into a saccharine story about a naive, small town girl. In it, i will make very little mention of lynchs abstract symbolism and his extensive referencing of other works, and i will not dig into the philosophical subtext of the film. Before she can exit, a car driven by joyriding teenagers plows into the limo. The second part of the analysis explores the cinematic devices such as the. Im pretty skeptical on whether or not it can qualify as an experimental film but it is labeled in such a way online and the screening which i found was listed on the screen slate website which you suggested we use. Mulholland drive as experimental film experimental production. There is a lot of classic cinema inside mulholland drive, starting with alfred hitchcocks vertigo whose interplay between characters was already lost highways framework and continuing with the mood and overall aesthetics of the film, where we see all the characters moving, talking and even dressing and combing their hair as an oldfashioned film noir, despite the storys.