re: Mulholland Drive

My opinion of it is the same for every David Lynch movie:

I like the scene with the tits in it.

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First step in his projects though is u can't expect to figure out his films.

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I don't think he makes movies to be figured out.

Just like people don't write stream of consciousness to make a point.

I guess he just wants to give you an experience...and tits.

I think the movie is amazing. I'm not sure it's a movie that's meant to be figured out.


I especially love it when Naomi Watts is furiously fingerbanging herself.

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I think the movie is amazing. I'm not sure it's a movie that's meant to be figured out.

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I disagree. Lynch wouldn’t have given out the “hints” if he didn't have a meaning. Check out the essay I posted on the previous page. Even the paintings on the walls add meaning to this film.

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What is the opinion on this movie?

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Not my cup of tea.

I'm not knocking it. Those that love it can love it. I just didn't care for it.

In addition to everything being said in this thread, one thing lots of people are afraid to do -- because they think it'll make them look stupid or banal or uncultured or whatever -- is admit that Lynch, like every surrealist or layered filmmaker/writer, sometimes just throws in random stuff that doesn't actually mean anything and tells the audience to figure it out. Inevitably, people will dissect it and find meaning simply because they want to show off their analytical skills. It's a cheap but effective way to get people talking about you and your art/writing. Nothing really wrong with it. It's just something to keep in mind.

Kinda figured it was a story about purgatory.

I think I still have the DVD somewhere. There was a list of hints/suggestions in the liner that I guess was supposed to help people out but it never did me any good.

the diner scene is fantastic. It's eerie and unsettling even without the reveal near the dumpsters.

I echo what others have said. It's def the most "straightforward" of his films but I still enjoy unpacking it.

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I disagree. Lynch wouldn’t have given out the “hints” if he didn't have a meaning. Check out the essay I posted on the previous page. Even the paintings on the walls add meaning to this film.

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You're saying that there's no such thing as intentional ambiguity?

I cannot disagree strongly enough.

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that Lynch, like every surrealist or layered filmmaker/writer, sometimes just throws in random stuff that doesn't actually mean anything and tells the audience to figure it out. Inevitably, people will dissect it and find meaning simply because they want to show off their analytical skills

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There could be some of that, but I think that the more common occurrence is people trying to find meaning from stuff in the film that had no intended meaning, and, indeed, the filmmaker probably wasn't even aware of.

The human brain is amazingly good at finding patterns -- connecting dots. So good, in fact, that we often find them when they aren't actually there. (Cosmos gets into this a little bit, and it's fascinating). And this is what happens when you get on a message board trying to figure out what happened in a film like Mulholland Drive (or inception, for example). I mean, it's good fun, but there aren't always actual answers to be found.