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Summary: DO NOT buy the DVD version
Review: The movie was interesting, frustrating, captivating, puzzling and bizarre. The other reviews can shed more light on the movie. I wanted to comment on the DVD itself. This must be the first DVD released by the manufacturer! The DVD lacks any interesting extra features and also lacks the most basic of DVD features. The worst part about the DVD is the lack of chapters. If you want to return to a part in the movie, you must fast forward through the entire movie! Hopefully, the will re-release this DVD with at least the basic DVD features.
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Summary: what a waste
Review: Honestly, I cant remember seeing a worse film than this. Not only is it slow, boring and irelevant, but it is one of those movies that makes you really angry for wasting your time in watching it. The bottom line is, it really makes no sense at all. Now you will read other reviews that explain their intrepretation of it or give you their idea of its synopsis, but c'mon people, do you really have to watch a bad movie 12 times to realize its absurd story, plot and structure? Not only that but you still will never really know if youve nailed the plot down in your interpretation because the movie is so outlandish and disconnected. People have written how this movie is really brilliant in its open endedness and its ability to leave the viewer with their own interpretation. Some have even written reviews below indicating that anybody who does no "get it" is a simpleton who should be watching Disney films. If someone claims to have "gotten it", then they are the biggest fools of all because nobody in their right and logical mind can ever comprehend what that idiot Lynch was up to in creating this absurdity. If your looking for something to interpret, read the bible or something. Dont waste your time with this junk.
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Summary: Ugh!
Review: I waited about an hour and a half for the movie to finally start. When I realized that it had, I spent the rest of the movie waiting for something - anything - to pull it all together. I'm still waiting. This is probably the most disappointing movie I have ever seen. I like to think - I really do. I like movies that make you puzzle out the answer. I like the moment of revelation where everything suddenly clicks. This movie has no answer. I'm not even sure that it has a question. It is simply a bunch of unrelated, badly directed scenes strung together in some incomprehensible order. I wish I could give this movie the 0 rating it truly deserves, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
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Summary: 25 Words Or Less
Review: I learned from Twin Peaks that David Lynch is as much "B.S." as "artist". "Usual Suspects"-style twist ending doesn't reward an unpleasant viewing experience.DVD NOTE: Lacks any worthwhile extras, and the entire movie reads as one chapter. If you accidentally chapter skip, be prepared to spend an awful long time searching to find your place again.
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Summary: Materialisation of the parallel universes theory
Review: For me , the film is the materialisation of the "many worlds" or "parallel universes" theory, such as the modern cosmology and quantum physics asseass.
Two young woman are living and interact in two parallel existances. In one Betty(Diane)is helping Rita(Camilla) to find her lost identity and fall in love with her , in the other , the same Diane(Betty) which desperately love Camilla(Rita), plan her killing , on professional and romantical reasons.
An old couple introduce Betty(Diane) to one world and the same
couple drow her out from the other world at the end.
A young criminal wich cause a carr accident , enabeling thus the
meeting between Betty(Diane)and Rita(Camilla)in one world , throw
Camilla(Rita) from the other existance by killing her at the end.
The passage from one existance to another is possible by opening
a small blue box , like using a wormhole passing.
The same peaple live different identities in two parallel worlds
and in this concert conduct God Himself (The cowboy).
Alond the very captivant script and direction of David Lynch ,the
music of Badalamenti and the picture contribute to create an athmosphere of strange, unknown and unforseen situation.
"Mulholand Drive" is a picture that compel to deep thincking and opens interesting debates.
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Summary: My Take
Review: I've watched this movie at least 25 times over, and I still reject the dream interpretation embraced by so many stupid people. Those who, like the critic Curmudgeonson, do not truly understand the film (as I do) may say something like, "No scene shows us a moment outside of a dream". This is totally wrong. As anyone with half a brain should see, what we actually have in the film is a mixture of reality, pseudo-reality, psycho-pseudo-reality, fantasy, micro-fantasy, chronic fantasy, anti-quasi-fantasy, semi-quasi-fantasy, pseudo-fantasy, pseudo-semi-fantasy, quasi-pseudo dream, macro-dream, retro-semi-dream, ante-retro-dream, and plain semi-dream. The movie's central figure is obviously Diane. Diane Selwin fails as an actress and carries on an emotionlly-exhausting lesbian love affair with Camilla Rhodes. Diane eventually becomes revengeful and paranoid. She thinks Camilla's success in the film industry was a result of the aid of powerful men. Hence, the scene in the office is clearly an example of pseudo-fantasy blended with quasi-pseudo-dream. Similarly, the scene with the director and Mr. "Espresso", among others, demonstrates the characteristics of macro-dream. Simply put, it is VERY EVIDENT that Betty is nothing more than the pathetic Diane's idealized self, which is an example of fantasy. But Betty is not just a manifestation of fantasy, as so many moronic people claim. Betty is also an example of anti-quasi-fantasy, and Diane necessarily calls on her every single miserable little day. Betty changes over times, both in reality and in the mind of Diane. Betty is the person Diane wants to be but is not. Let's face it: we all dream of this kind of imaginery self. Other parts of the movie are similar but also different, as well. For instance, the "man" behind the diner is clearly related to Diane in the biological sense, though not in any discernible way. The fact of the matter is: A man saw Diane pass a photo to someone, and then give him the cash in the purse. This man wonders if a "hit" is being orchestrated, but he, as anyone can tell, does not know for sure. Thus, he begins having a retro-semi-dream involving a beast, which may represent his unconscious, unresolved guilt from childhood experiences with his mother. The cowboy, who may be both important and unimportant, is a bit of an enigma to me. Also, why do Rita and Betty have red highlights at the end of the movie? Why does the director have a lighter hair tone? Is Diane's suicide part of an ante-retro-dream? There are some things that even I can't explain, but they are few and far between. For the most part, if you are anywhere close to intelligent, the answers to the questions that the movie raises are very easily answered through a bit of close study. I think I know exactly what Lynch was trying to express. It's just sad that, like Curmudgeonson, most people don't.
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Summary: The best movie of the year so far....
Review: I was bowled over by Mulholland. I had read nothing about the movie before I went to see it, just going on the merits of Lynch as a director. I have always loved his style of directing and vision. There is always a good-natured naiveté about his work. Something very pure and honest (this is why he goes on about the quality of coffee in his movies, I think)and of course very very weird. He loves filmmaking and it shows. His work is uncompromising and pure. It is brave and very rare in Hollywood. Mulholland Dr follows into that vein but there is an underlying tone of evil from the beginning that is fed by the goody goody nature of Betty (just too good to be true..too wide eyed and innocent) and the leering old couple when they leave Betty on the pavement of LA airport. But you just don't know where Lynch is taking you with this. I just let it wash over me and it was astonishing. Creepy, funny and devastating the story is a loop but you only find that out, of course, at the end of the movie... It Ends where it began. It doesn't deal with normal time notions but it gives you clues as to what state of reality Betty/Diane is in. Just look for the ashtray in the shape of the Piano. The lampshade and the robe and the hairstyle... If you keep your eye on that you will know what is real and what isn't. But then the question is.. What does it all mean? The Blue Box? The key? The Cowboy, Silencio? The bum, The old Couple? The Thugs, No one can answer that (perhaps not even David Lynch) but one can only guess... and that is just part of the fun of this movie. There is no wrong answer but the symbolism is logical to a degree. (Think Pandora's box, the key is the key to Diane's release of her obsession, Silencio the calm before death, or death itself, The old couple her innocence lost..coming back to haunt her, The thugs are validating her belief that the director was bullied into choosing Camilla and had nothing to do with Diane's lack of talent or star quality) It stays with you long after you have left the cinema. Like some vivid dreams they can baffle you as to their meaning but make you richer for having them... I was bowled over by Mulholland. Even after seeing it three times.
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Summary: The Best Movie of 2001
Review: This movie is an extraordinary meditation on both death and life in America. Lynch covers the whole emotional range, from hilarious parody to the ecstasy of erotic love to the unbearable pain of loss. Several images from this film are guaranteed to stick with you. The story is complex with many twists and turns, including a big shift with a half-hour to go. And it all feeds an amazing, profound vision. I won't describe the story--many other people are attempting to do that here. Rather, I encourage you to see this film, and see it more than once.
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Summary: Not for everyone
Review: It goes without saying that not all films are for everyone. Okay, 'Shrek' may be the singular exception, but I'll someone doesn't like that movie. 'Mulholland Drive' is pretty much every film major's dream because it's so enigmatic and diverse in it's themes that you can slap just about any meaning onto it that you want and it'll make sense. The real beauty of the film lies in it's enigma. You can explore it from numerous angles and strain your brain's reasoning center with all of them. And it's got two chicks doing it! On the surface, 'Mullholland Drive' is a story about two women searching for the truth about one woman's past in a town of back-stabbers, murders, and the moronically avant garde, that suddenly takes a turn for the confusing that hurls faces, names, and characteristics into a blender and turns it up really high. If you don't start watching the movie with your symbolism glasses on you'll be confused to the point of insanity shortly after the introduction of the blue box. Fortunately the DVD includes a list of ten clues to figuring the mystery out, written by David Lynch. Read this first off or be prepared to clean grey matter of the walls. 'Mullholland Drive' can also be taken as a Freudian metaphor rather than literal occurances. Which leads more into a story about personnal struggle and sacrifice for fame rather than lonliness and rejection in relationships. The fact is there as many interpretations of the film as there are people who've seen it. Well, less actually, since a lot of people wrote it off as non-sensical 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' fodder (I will admit that it isn't diffacult to MST3K this movie). From it's intentionally bad acting at the beginning, to the Silencio scene, the film is meticulously crafted, and a great experience for people who enjoy reading too much into movies or just really want to impress people with their intelligence without having to be very intelligent at all. Oh, and if anyone can explain the cowboy to me, I'd appreciate it.
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Summary: What just happened?
Review: This movie marks the one (and only time) that I have ever listened to a certain co-worker when picking a movie. Craziness and the inability to follow a plot does NOT make a movie a classic. It makes it garbage . . . And this movie certainly fits that term. I STILL don't know what happened. I've since read online reviews that tried to explain it, but I don't see how they are coming up with their opinions. If a movie requires massive amounts of discussion just to figure out what happened, then this is a DOWNFALL! Come on, people! How can anybody give this movie TWO stars, let alone FIVE?! And, about twenty minutes before the end, the movie goes from being an impossible to follow mystery . . . to a PORN flick! I know that this made the move more "watchable" to some people, but, in my opinion, it caused even more deterioration to a movie that I had thought couldn't deteriorate any further.
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