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All of you that haven’t really watched any arthouse movies - picture the most confusing film that you have ever seen.
Good.
Now multiply the confusion in that film by ten, throw in a couple of graphic sex scenes, insert a couple of sub plots that don’t go anywhere, and then you’ll have David Lynch’s latest masterpiece. I type David Lynch as though I’m very familiar with the name – that’s just me trying to look clever, this is the first of his that I have seen. And I am very, very glad that I now know the name.
First off, I have to warn you all that this film isn’t exactly showing all over the place. There was just one cinema in the whole of Oxfordshire and Berkshire that was screening this film, and even there it was only on for a week or so. So if you want to see this, either wait for the DVD or be aware that it will take some finding.
The film starts without rhyme nor reason. Actually, I’ve never watched a film that starts with rhyme. So it’s not really surprising that it doesn’t start with rhyme, really. However, usually there is a reason. Not here, however. A girl is being driven somewhere in some kind of taxi, when the taxi stops, and the driver pulls a gun out on the girl and tells her to get out of the car. Before we know the drivers intentions however, a couple of joyriders smash into the car, killing everyone but the girl.
The girl loses her memory, and we see her wander about for a while. She then meets another girl (I’m useless with names in films, so I’m just going to call her blond), and the two form a friendship whilst they try to figure out just why the hell amnesia girl has $10,000 and a strange blue key in her handbag.
That, as far as my limited intellect can discern, is the main plot of the film. Along the way, we meet a film director who is threatened by the Mafia (Strange…MS Word thinks that Mafia has to have a capital letter at the start. Now we know who REALLY owns Microsoft…), an assassin, and a monster of some kind. Quite how all of this fits together is beyond me even though I’ve actually watched the bloody thing, so I’m fairly sure that you are fairly confused by now.
Unless you’re name is David Lynch.
You’re probably wondering how I can watch a film and not understand it. If you weren’t wondering that, chances are you are a monkey with the intellect of a James Bond villen.
The film is very, very confusing. As we get further into the film, characters appear for single shots, and then when we cut back to them again they’re gone. There is a dead woman who seems to come back to life as one of the main characters. There’s a monster that appears randomly. And little old people that can run under doors and explode also make an appearance.
No, really.
Despite all this, the single most confusing thing in this film is the ending, or rather the lack of one. You would think that everything would tie together in the end – the bits that have baffled you up to now should really be explained, the numerous sub plots should all tie together to make a point. This isn’t done – you really are expected to come away from this movie and work it out for yourself. Me and my mates have came up with numerous theories about what the hell was going on, but none of them are without flaws.
Still, I suppose that this ambiguousness is all part of the films charm. It’s testament to the quality of the thing that I still talk about it a couple of weeks later.
Conclusion: This film is great if you watch it with your brain on. Otherwise, I can see it going right over your head.
*****
Good.
Now multiply the confusion in that film by ten, throw in a couple of graphic sex scenes, insert a couple of sub plots that don’t go anywhere, and then you’ll have David Lynch’s latest masterpiece. I type David Lynch as though I’m very familiar with the name – that’s just me trying to look clever, this is the first of his that I have seen. And I am very, very glad that I now know the name.
First off, I have to warn you all that this film isn’t exactly showing all over the place. There was just one cinema in the whole of Oxfordshire and Berkshire that was screening this film, and even there it was only on for a week or so. So if you want to see this, either wait for the DVD or be aware that it will take some finding.
The film starts without rhyme nor reason. Actually, I’ve never watched a film that starts with rhyme. So it’s not really surprising that it doesn’t start with rhyme, really. However, usually there is a reason. Not here, however. A girl is being driven somewhere in some kind of taxi, when the taxi stops, and the driver pulls a gun out on the girl and tells her to get out of the car. Before we know the drivers intentions however, a couple of joyriders smash into the car, killing everyone but the girl.
The girl loses her memory, and we see her wander about for a while. She then meets another girl (I’m useless with names in films, so I’m just going to call her blond), and the two form a friendship whilst they try to figure out just why the hell amnesia girl has $10,000 and a strange blue key in her handbag.
That, as far as my limited intellect can discern, is the main plot of the film. Along the way, we meet a film director who is threatened by the Mafia (Strange…MS Word thinks that Mafia has to have a capital letter at the start. Now we know who REALLY owns Microsoft…), an assassin, and a monster of some kind. Quite how all of this fits together is beyond me even though I’ve actually watched the bloody thing, so I’m fairly sure that you are fairly confused by now.
Unless you’re name is David Lynch.
You’re probably wondering how I can watch a film and not understand it. If you weren’t wondering that, chances are you are a monkey with the intellect of a James Bond villen.
The film is very, very confusing. As we get further into the film, characters appear for single shots, and then when we cut back to them again they’re gone. There is a dead woman who seems to come back to life as one of the main characters. There’s a monster that appears randomly. And little old people that can run under doors and explode also make an appearance.
No, really.
Despite all this, the single most confusing thing in this film is the ending, or rather the lack of one. You would think that everything would tie together in the end – the bits that have baffled you up to now should really be explained, the numerous sub plots should all tie together to make a point. This isn’t done – you really are expected to come away from this movie and work it out for yourself. Me and my mates have came up with numerous theories about what the hell was going on, but none of them are without flaws.
Still, I suppose that this ambiguousness is all part of the films charm. It’s testament to the quality of the thing that I still talk about it a couple of weeks later.
Conclusion: This film is great if you watch it with your brain on. Otherwise, I can see it going right over your head.
*****
Woo hoo... I'm not dumb according to misterhappy!
Anyway, one thing that a friend pointed out (and I found happened to me), was that I was tense and gripped by the story so completely that I must get it on DVD!
The brilliant sub plots are absolute genius- I don't know what relevance most of them have (what was with the "Cowboy"???? Or the mafia boss? Or the guy who dies after seeing the tramp?!?!?!), but never-the-less, the sub polts were amazingly well crafted.
A truely brilliant film.
Sonic
Anyway, one thing that a friend pointed out (and I found happened to me), was that I was tense and gripped by the story so completely that I must get it on DVD!
The brilliant sub plots are absolute genius- I don't know what relevance most of them have (what was with the "Cowboy"???? Or the mafia boss? Or the guy who dies after seeing the tramp?!?!?!), but never-the-less, the sub polts were amazingly well crafted.
A truely brilliant film.
Sonic
I wouldn't entirely agree. I saw this with three of my friends from school and none of us are dumb but we didn't have a clue what was going on. I don't thinkanyone knows what the hell is going on regardless of their level of brain power. In fact the only person who can make sense of the film is David Lynch himself.
That's not to say that the film is bad. In fact it's one of the best I've seen, it's just a complete mindfunk. Lynch has put enough vague links between each sub-plot to make you think that there is an all encompassing answer, or meaning to his film, but I don't think there is. It is the cinemtic equivalent of Hamlet (the character not the play), something so wilfully complex that it will spark debate for years to come.
In the final half hour my friend just started murmuring "I'm lost..." and then when he came out he said that he was going to have to see it again. He summed it up quite well by saying that even though it was thoroughly confusing he had been on the edge of his seat throughout. Mulholland Drive is one of the most compelling films I have seen, despite being incomprehensible. I have never heard so many people expounding incredibly complex theories in a cinema lobby in a vain effort to understand exactly what they just saw.
Mulholland Drive is an utterly brilliant film. I am going to buy it on DVD, despite being completely aware that no matter how many times I see it I will never understand it. Maybe, and this is the only message I can think that the film had, it is meant to show the fallacy of Hollywood. But I'm not entirely sure about that because the film could mean everything and anything.
That's not to say that the film is bad. In fact it's one of the best I've seen, it's just a complete mindfunk. Lynch has put enough vague links between each sub-plot to make you think that there is an all encompassing answer, or meaning to his film, but I don't think there is. It is the cinemtic equivalent of Hamlet (the character not the play), something so wilfully complex that it will spark debate for years to come.
In the final half hour my friend just started murmuring "I'm lost..." and then when he came out he said that he was going to have to see it again. He summed it up quite well by saying that even though it was thoroughly confusing he had been on the edge of his seat throughout. Mulholland Drive is one of the most compelling films I have seen, despite being incomprehensible. I have never heard so many people expounding incredibly complex theories in a cinema lobby in a vain effort to understand exactly what they just saw.
Mulholland Drive is an utterly brilliant film. I am going to buy it on DVD, despite being completely aware that no matter how many times I see it I will never understand it. Maybe, and this is the only message I can think that the film had, it is meant to show the fallacy of Hollywood. But I'm not entirely sure about that because the film could mean everything and anything.
All of you that haven’t really watched any arthouse movies - picture the most confusing film that you have ever seen.
Good.
Now multiply the confusion in that film by ten, throw in a couple of graphic sex scenes, insert a couple of sub plots that don’t go anywhere, and then you’ll have David Lynch’s latest masterpiece. I type David Lynch as though I’m very familiar with the name – that’s just me trying to look clever, this is the first of his that I have seen. And I am very, very glad that I now know the name.
First off, I have to warn you all that this film isn’t exactly showing all over the place. There was just one cinema in the whole of Oxfordshire and Berkshire that was screening this film, and even there it was only on for a week or so. So if you want to see this, either wait for the DVD or be aware that it will take some finding.
The film starts without rhyme nor reason. Actually, I’ve never watched a film that starts with rhyme. So it’s not really surprising that it doesn’t start with rhyme, really. However, usually there is a reason. Not here, however. A girl is being driven somewhere in some kind of taxi, when the taxi stops, and the driver pulls a gun out on the girl and tells her to get out of the car. Before we know the drivers intentions however, a couple of joyriders smash into the car, killing everyone but the girl.
The girl loses her memory, and we see her wander about for a while. She then meets another girl (I’m useless with names in films, so I’m just going to call her blond), and the two form a friendship whilst they try to figure out just why the hell amnesia girl has $10,000 and a strange blue key in her handbag.
That, as far as my limited intellect can discern, is the main plot of the film. Along the way, we meet a film director who is threatened by the Mafia (Strange…MS Word thinks that Mafia has to have a capital letter at the start. Now we know who REALLY owns Microsoft…), an assassin, and a monster of some kind. Quite how all of this fits together is beyond me even though I’ve actually watched the bloody thing, so I’m fairly sure that you are fairly confused by now.
Unless you’re name is David Lynch.
You’re probably wondering how I can watch a film and not understand it. If you weren’t wondering that, chances are you are a monkey with the intellect of a James Bond villen.
The film is very, very confusing. As we get further into the film, characters appear for single shots, and then when we cut back to them again they’re gone. There is a dead woman who seems to come back to life as one of the main characters. There’s a monster that appears randomly. And little old people that can run under doors and explode also make an appearance.
No, really.
Despite all this, the single most confusing thing in this film is the ending, or rather the lack of one. You would think that everything would tie together in the end – the bits that have baffled you up to now should really be explained, the numerous sub plots should all tie together to make a point. This isn’t done – you really are expected to come away from this movie and work it out for yourself. Me and my mates have came up with numerous theories about what the hell was going on, but none of them are without flaws.
Still, I suppose that this ambiguousness is all part of the films charm. It’s testament to the quality of the thing that I still talk about it a couple of weeks later.
Conclusion: This film is great if you watch it with your brain on. Otherwise, I can see it going right over your head.
*****
Good.
Now multiply the confusion in that film by ten, throw in a couple of graphic sex scenes, insert a couple of sub plots that don’t go anywhere, and then you’ll have David Lynch’s latest masterpiece. I type David Lynch as though I’m very familiar with the name – that’s just me trying to look clever, this is the first of his that I have seen. And I am very, very glad that I now know the name.
First off, I have to warn you all that this film isn’t exactly showing all over the place. There was just one cinema in the whole of Oxfordshire and Berkshire that was screening this film, and even there it was only on for a week or so. So if you want to see this, either wait for the DVD or be aware that it will take some finding.
The film starts without rhyme nor reason. Actually, I’ve never watched a film that starts with rhyme. So it’s not really surprising that it doesn’t start with rhyme, really. However, usually there is a reason. Not here, however. A girl is being driven somewhere in some kind of taxi, when the taxi stops, and the driver pulls a gun out on the girl and tells her to get out of the car. Before we know the drivers intentions however, a couple of joyriders smash into the car, killing everyone but the girl.
The girl loses her memory, and we see her wander about for a while. She then meets another girl (I’m useless with names in films, so I’m just going to call her blond), and the two form a friendship whilst they try to figure out just why the hell amnesia girl has $10,000 and a strange blue key in her handbag.
That, as far as my limited intellect can discern, is the main plot of the film. Along the way, we meet a film director who is threatened by the Mafia (Strange…MS Word thinks that Mafia has to have a capital letter at the start. Now we know who REALLY owns Microsoft…), an assassin, and a monster of some kind. Quite how all of this fits together is beyond me even though I’ve actually watched the bloody thing, so I’m fairly sure that you are fairly confused by now.
Unless you’re name is David Lynch.
You’re probably wondering how I can watch a film and not understand it. If you weren’t wondering that, chances are you are a monkey with the intellect of a James Bond villen.
The film is very, very confusing. As we get further into the film, characters appear for single shots, and then when we cut back to them again they’re gone. There is a dead woman who seems to come back to life as one of the main characters. There’s a monster that appears randomly. And little old people that can run under doors and explode also make an appearance.
No, really.
Despite all this, the single most confusing thing in this film is the ending, or rather the lack of one. You would think that everything would tie together in the end – the bits that have baffled you up to now should really be explained, the numerous sub plots should all tie together to make a point. This isn’t done – you really are expected to come away from this movie and work it out for yourself. Me and my mates have came up with numerous theories about what the hell was going on, but none of them are without flaws.
Still, I suppose that this ambiguousness is all part of the films charm. It’s testament to the quality of the thing that I still talk about it a couple of weeks later.
Conclusion: This film is great if you watch it with your brain on. Otherwise, I can see it going right over your head.
*****