Anyone seriously analyze the movie Mulholland Drive?

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Lucifer.

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I was never sold on "The Devil himself," but as a representation of centralized evil, yes.

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I was never sold on "The Devil himself," but as a representation of centralized evil, yes.

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Well we know that the announcer in the club is an ex client of Diane the call girl and he pretty much "screws" the memory of her grandad childhood molestation back in to her (seizure). The blue haired lady is an observer of this, so evil could be an option. I also heard that it was her grandmother, since she was silent about the rape, but it looks nothing like the other grandma.

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tons of the scenes in this movie have nothing to do with anything and only serve to make the movie feel "weird"

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You are right about the movie initially being a tv series, but you couldn't be more wrong about it's incompletion. Everything is explainable and makes sense (BHL is my last mystery). From the paintings on the walls to seemingly insignificant objects, tell an elaborate, complicated, and beautiful story.

Iswydt

haha. not really

I came into this thread because I'm a fan of the movie.

Anyway - I'm in the middle of a rewatch of The Shield right now - I started Season 5 yesterday. The episode I will watch today features: Becca Doyle, the defense attorney that takes up the strike team as a client - Becca Doyle is played by none other than:

Laura Harring



Even not so "dolled up", pretty

(ETA: The first Latina crowned Miss USA - 1985).

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Who is the Blue Haired Lady?

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I'm in the camp that she is somehow related to death - if not death, herself. And, although Blue Haired, not necessarily old, but middle-aged.

The MC seems more overtly a "Luciferian"-type character, although he is performing for the blue haired lady. Evil is more personified by the beast behind Winkie's, or the old couple (grandparents are what I always assumed), as the beast releases the demonic forms of them at the end.

She gets the last word in the film. She presides over the film's single most important scene (Club Silencio), plus the hair color is matched to the blue keys - symbols or markers of death in the film. So, death, finality, closure - these constitute her domain.

I've seen it speculated that she represents G-d in the film and that would make sense, if the MC was supposed to be Satan.

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The beast behind Winkie's is definitely Diane.

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That's true - but it can be interpreted as the evil side of her personality - the side capable of ordering Camilla's murder. That's why it is associated with Winkie's and why it scares Dan so much - remember, she is looking right at Dan, IRL, when the hit man explains the key to her.

It's possible she worked at Winkie's before, but, more likely, I think she just swapped places with "Betty" from the transaction for Camilla's hit.

Another thing - because of the similar looking actresses playing the BHL and the beast - perhaps the BHL is yet another aspect of Diane - the "director" of the dream, so to speak. The fade in of BHL from the image of the beast at the very end might support this as well.

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Another thing - because of the similar looking actresses playing the BHL and the beast - perhaps the BHL is yet another aspect of Diane - the "director" of the dream, so to speak. The fade in of BHL from the image of the beast at the very end might support this as well.

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That's kind of the direction I'm leaning. All of the strange characters in the dream sequence are part of her psyche and represent a part of her (even though they are real outside of the dream). BHL might be her last and final decision maker, the part of her brain that rules all of the others. Club Silencio might have just been a trial for Diane's life with the BHL being the final judge. Maybe her conscience?