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Subject: Re: The meaning of Mulholland Drive
Date: Mar 14, 2003
And how many times did you have to watch it to come up with that convenient little formula? We don«t need to know what is happening in the film to gather and understand the overall meaning. Who cares who the characters are and what they do, whether they are alive or dead, real or imagined, whether we are seeing real time or flashbacks or dreams or whatever? We are seeing what happens to dreams in L.A. The become corrupted and decayed by all that surrounds them. Innocent dreams become rotten and the reality becomes one of decay and confusion. There is nothing to understand in the movie, the movie is the message. How do you feel watching the movie? Disturbed. That«s the message.
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The meaning of Mulholland Drive
I am the only person I know who perfectly understands Mulholland Drive (Lynch does to but doesn't publically -- for publicity -- admit to it).
FFFFFFFFFrrFFFFFFFFFFFrrrFFFFFFFFFrrrrrFFFFFFrrrrrrrFFFrrrrrrrFFrrrrrrrr
The above is the linear structure of the film, with FFF = fantasy/daydream the rr = reality.
In real life the blonde and brunette have been lovers. The brunette jilts the blonde to marry a film director. In a fit of jealously, the blonde hires a hitman to kill her lover. In her app't, at Mulholland Drive, while waiting for the news of the brunette's demise, she slips into wishful thinking, a daydream, an if only scenario. (We all do this when things in life aren't working out as we would like). This is where the movie begins. The drive rr is real, the accident begins the daydream FFFFF which takes up the first 1.20 minutes of the film, interspersed with moments of reality, [the introduction the hitman, the director's wife's infidelity, etc]. As the film advances, the daydream begins to show cracks, allowing more rrrr moments to get in (the discovery of the blonde's actual apparment, the brunette's taking up with the film director etc). Eventually, the daydream must yield to reality, (analagous to Hollywood fantasy yielding reality). Ending on a strictly rrrr note, we find the jilted blonde, alone, living in rrrr squalor in Mulholland Drive?
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» Re: The meaning of Mulholland Drive « from Virginia, Mar 14, 2003
wow from Rosanna, Jun 10, 2002
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PCP from Kilgore Trout, Sep 1, 2002
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