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Subject: Re: What really didn't happen on Mulholland Drive
Date: Jan 30, 2003
Shy Ted,
Interesting comments on the ingenue theme.
I saw MD about a year ago in Boston (small town Kentucky boy adrift in a big city <smile>). Long
a Lynch fan, 1986 when I first saw BLUE VELVET, I, too, fell under the spell of Del Rio's rendition of Orbison's "Crying." Orbison's "In Dreams," my favorite song by Lynch's god of the dark side of pop romance, appears in BV in something of an oracular capacity. Check it out if you haven't seen it--full of Freud and Jung if you like that kind of thing (and I do). Other otherwise silly songs in MD come off as high camp and kitsch: "Sixteen Reasons" and "I Told Every Little Star."
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Re: What really didn't happen on Mulholland Drive
I saw it last night for the first time and thought it entrancing. Typical Lynch, sumptuous colours, beguiling characters and sets but ambiguities fron scene one. Betty arrives in LA with the Feel Good pensioners who wish her well but give her no hope of future contact. Betty completely innocent left by parents to fend in adult world. She is so enthusiastically naive on hwer arrival in LA it is not credible in this day and age, even with her sheltered upbringing. She is the ingenue and this part of the movie is the fantasy of how life should have been, arriving at the airport with everyone loving her, the taxi driver loading her bags into the cab for her and her staying at her conveniently recently vacated appartment occupied by a dark stranger (her physical opposite blond/dark, day/night, obvious/conceles, transparent, opaque.) They swap characters because they are the same. It is the environment inwhich they exist that decides which aspects of their natures come to the fore. Rita is a clean sheet of paper with no memory which can be worked upon by the newly arrived Betty who in her failure to succeed kills Rita/ herself and then commits suicide. Rita becomes the successful actress she should have become partnered by the director told to hire Betty. Betty/Rita are the same person: good and bad in the same person. Betty kills both of thyem. The success she could have been as Rita and the failure she was as herself.
One man's opinion, terrific movie and anyone who didn't cry when Rebekah Del Rio sang Lloranda is already dead. RIP
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