Mulholland Dr.

[TheDude]

By far one of the strangest films I've ever seen. I don't even know what to say about the film other than the fact that it seemed like you were watching a dream. Has anyone seen this nightmarish work?

 

[Yorick]

I've seen it at least a dozen times, usually like, back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back viewings as we try to unravel the ****ing knot of insanity.

I really like it, but I've never had much of a clue as to what's going on in it.

 

[Unfocused]

It is damn weird, but I enjoyed it.

Read up some interpretations on imdb.com.

 

[Warbie]

Great movie. Every time I watch it it feels like i'm on the verge of understanding, and then it slips away :/

 

[kineaesth]

Excellent film. I'm pretty sure I get most of it, but it seems like there are a few non sequiturs in there just to mess with you.

 

[Kadayi]

Great film. In my top 10 and comfortably so.

Best interpretation I know is this (paraphrased):-

Spoiler

The whole front end of the film is a (possibly mastabatory....the uncontrollable shaking and the scenes of blurred vision) guilt ridden fantasy by Lesbian Naomi Watts character (Diane), over ordering her ex girlfriend (Laura Harring) killed as a result of the belittling and humiliation she suffers when she attends the dinner party, that turns out to be Ritas engagement to the Director. She knows she's ordered the hit but in her fantasy she envisages that the Hitman is inept, that the director is a buffoon, that there are other forces in play (the man in the wheel chair, the man behind Winkies, the cowboy &, the brothers) who ultimately decide upon peoples success rather than their talent, that Rita escapes her fate, and that ultimately she meets up with and falls in love with Diane's idealised self Betty (whose origins of winning a dance competition she shares). However the blue key confirms that the deed is done and unable to deal with the knowledge that she Rita is no more, and the guilt she feels (the expectation of the judges at the competition being the old couple) she ends up blowing her brains out in bed.

The whole point about the club scene is that it brings home to Diane/betty that it just a fantasy and nothing in it is real.

Makes a lot of sense to me, esp when you watch it again.