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Subject: Re: mulholland drive
Date: Jan 22, 2002
A follow up comment.
I think the Rita charactor was very appealing in the first part of the film and therefore difficult to let go as an illussion.
The annts apartment was never so exciting as it had been hoped to be by Diane. Returning as Betty hosting her now innocent lover she helps Lynch fool the audience until Betty and Rita vanish.
We are left with an emptyness that must be only a fraction of that which a life might feel if it takes itself out of existence.
Steven
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the first web-site, where 'normal' moviegoers posted some thoughts about this spooky film...
i have seen the movie just last night and since then, i'm re-thinking what i've seen.
after checking a few websites related to the movie, i realized, that this movie wasn't meant to be a 'movie' in the beginning. it should have become a tv-series like twin peaks, but was cut to a 2 1/2 hours teasing thing (like an apŽro before a goog dinner... but the dinner may never takes place). so i am sure, that much of the filmplot is only showed in its beginning, asking more questions than giving answers. therefore i am convinced, that not every track, lynch opens, must have a true end or so.
i agree with steven, that the movie is (partly) retold out of the eyes of betty (well, more out of the eyes of diane, who was the product of betty after getting into the business of hollywood). but this is, i believe, only the last quarter of the movie. diane, drugged, deceived (she doesnt get the filmroles, she thougt she was meant for), desillusionized and left by camilla (a bisexual vamp), realises during/after the wedding-announcement-party, the she will lose camilla and will never become a star. so she hires the hitman, who got hit by a car himself (this happens in the first quarter of the movie).
in contrary to steven, i think that in the first half of the movie we see the story through the eyes of the surviving camilla, who was not killed by the hitman. she suffers of amnesia and then tries to get her memory back. after a short time (hiding in an appartement, which possibly could belong to the aunt of diane...), she finds diane, who had committed suicide. she, diane, was hounted by the 'ghosts' of her parents/grandparents/her conscience and couldnt stand it any longer to live a life so much different than expected when she came from canada to l.a.
on this journey of camilla, now i can agree with steven, the soul of diane accompanies (and perhaps helps) camilla in search of her identity and, as she doesnt know from the beginning, her pal (do you remeber the scene and especially the face of camilla, when she left appartement 17 after seeing the shot diane... the face of 'betty' in the same scene seemed to me to be very different). so we also see the movie trough the eyes of the dead diane.
in my eyes, the movie is like a huge 'Q'. after a short intro we go on a long tour (about three quarter of the movie) and then, in the end, get a short attempt of an explanetion, how it all could have taken place (even if its only in the 'mind' of the soul of diane, who cant find rest after having given the order to kill her girlfriend and destroy all her dreams).
also knowing, that my explanetion bases on only one (re)view of the movie, i think i will review it once or twice. i loved whatching twin peaks, so i think (knowing, that mullholland dr. wasnt actually meant to be a full movie) also in this movie, many of the questions are not to answer.
so feel free to recomment on this posting, perhaps we find out more...
michael (switzerland)
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