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Summary: LYNCH FANS MUST BUY THIS!
Review: Remarkably beautiful and insanely true to life. This is quite possibly the best Lynch movie to date. The compositions alone took my breath away. . . David has once again raised the bar in the world of filmmaking. Most out there will be confused by the story as always the case, but if you have an open mind this one is quite a treat, and makes more sense than ever. It's extremely sad, but a must see. . .
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Summary: Movie is Awesome DVD is terrible
Review: Don't waste your money on this DVD. It has no interviews and what's realy bad is that there are no chapter or scene breaks. If you want to jump to a specific scene you can't. You have to fast forward. I can't believe they released it this way.
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Summary: number three of 3 world's most greatest movies ever
Review: When I first watched it I didn't understand the movie at all. Then I watched it again and again and again.. Only when you understand what this movie is about it becomes REALLY scary.. Now I can't even sleep. My life won't be the same ever again. My advice - don't watch it. Whatever life you have is, it's better that it will be when you see this movie
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Summary: It's Really Not That Complicated
Review: I have to say that I was surprised that so many people were confused by this film and that no one seemed to "get it."WARNING: If you havent seen it and don't want to "know how it ends," read no further!!! First, there is not really a plot, but the gradual revealing of an event. Thus, the forward impetus comes not from finding out "what happens next," but from the gradual revelation of reality so that initially unrelated, confusing pieces are connected to form a complete whole. The reality is revealed in the final sequence, which begins with Diane Selwyn being driven in the car, along Mulholland drive. Everything from that point on is reality, which is this: A woman named Diane Selwyn comes to Hollywood to become a movie star. She auditions for a part at the same time as another actress, Camilla Rhodes. The director, Adam Kesher, chooses Camilla, but there is an attraction betwen Diane and Camilla and they begin a lesbian affair. (Camilla also gets Diane small parts in her movies.) Then, one day, Camilla breaks off this affair ("We can't do this anymore") and Diane guesses, "It's him, isn't it?" Meaning that Camilla has fallen in love with Adam. Camilla then invites Diane to a dinner party and humiliates her by announcing the marriage to her in front of everyone and also blatantly kissing another female guest. Seeking revent, Diane meets a hitman at a diner and hires him to kill Camilla. He shows her a blue key and tells her that he will leave the key in a prearranged location as a signal that the job has been done. Diane finds the key and, realizing that her ex-lover is dead, is so overcome with guilt and remorse that she shoots herself to rid herself of the demons in her head. Everything that happens before the "final drive" are Diane's desperate re-imaginings of what has happened, to assuage her guilt -- so things are twisted around. Diane becomes a sweet, innocent girl, who is immediately recognized as a brilliant actress. Whereas, in reality, at the diner with the hitman, the waitress's nametag says "Betty," in the re-imaging, the waitress becomes "Diane" and Diane is "Betty," and she is with "Rita/Camilla," trying to help her, instead of with a hitman, plotting to kill her. The money in Diane's purse at the diner becomes money in "Rita's" purse. Adam's mother, Coco, becomes a friendly landlady. And so on as people and events get twisted in Diane's mind as she is driven to suicide. And finally, the blue key meant to signal Rita's death becomes the key to a mysterious blue box. When Rita opens the box, both "Betty" and "Rita" disappear as Rita looks into the box and sees... Diane, in the back seat of the car, and the beginning of the "real" events. Hopefully, this will help those who were confused to appreciate - and enjoy -- the film more.
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Summary: it don't matter...
Review: what it's about; the ideal is in the suggestion...it don't need to be figured out to simply understand; take it in like something you've not had the pleasure of being somehow moved by.
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Summary: Welcome to the Chasm of a great Movie...
Review: Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine says it best, "Lynch's Mulholland Drive is...a haunting, selfish masterpiece that literalizes the theory of surrealism as perpetual dream-state." Amazingly, Mulholland Drive was originally a pilot for an ABC TV series that never got picked up. What a series it could have been! Viewers would have been scratching their heads from week to week and still kept coming back for more. ABC deemed it too controversal, and lacked some all-around faith. It seem's the censor's are sleeping nowaday's, so it was an amazing move, considering. Mulholland star's: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux. All of whom were terrific. There were some scenes, such as "The introduction to Adam", and "The Audition" that would have alone been worth buying the disk. To me anyways. Remember that most of what you see has a symbolism around things that happen in the ending subplot. This won't make sense until you have seen it. Flak Magazine does a wonderful job decifering all of the in's and out's. If you want a full fledged, interpretation, go there. Even though I understood most of the movie, after I read his review it made me feel a little stupid. Mulholland Dr. is a rare, crazy-eyed vision of a woman's life, her desires and her failures. It was meant for open minded viewers who enjoy simple movies as much as the do complicated film's. ~s.a.o.s.~
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Summary: a haunting film
Review: I was deeply moved by this movie. The story of a woman trying to make it in Hollywood, it is one of the greater character studies I have ever seen. When the final act unfolded, and I realized what I had been privy to, I started squirming in my seat, almost embarrassed and apologetic that I had been such an intruder into this woman's head. Naomi Watts was truly amazing. If the Oscars actually rewarded talent, she would have walked away with one.
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Summary: Lost potential.
Review: This movie is about a suicidal, schizophrenic lesbian who has issues with her parents and is looking for love in all the wrong places. I wanted to like this movie, and in a way I did, but there just wasn't enough substance for me to call it a favorite. Lynch would sort of touch on some very powerful themes but wouldn't delve deeply enough into any one thing build meaning.
The fact that there are no sub chapters was really annoying but I guess that's Lynch's way of being artistic.
That being said, the performances were superb but it wasn't enough to save the film.
The only people who will like this movie are those who create meaning where it is lacking.
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Summary: Content? Don't know, ruined by no chapters on DVD
Review: Having watched 2/3rds of the movie I took a break, which obviosly wasn't the intention of the producers of the DVD. With no chapters, fast forward from the start was the only choice in reaching the point I stopped. Had I wanted a tape, I would have bought a tape. Result? Threw the DVD in the garbage, film concidered uninteresting. I won't buy any other Universal DVD's either, if they really don't know the difference between the DVD and tape format. I'll stick to companies that do.
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Summary: Lynch's Best!!!
Review: David Lynch never ceases to amaze me. The man is a genius! This is a director who over the span of his 25 year career has taken what is considered to be the "acceptable" film narrative and flipped it up side down. He has an ability to tell stories without using convetional story devices, blending mystery and fantastic dream-like sequences. This is shown no better than in Mulholland Drive. This masterpiece of the surreal is Lynch at his best. (Note: I will not give a detailed description of the plot, so as not to give anything away.) Of course, there are many mainstream moviegoers, who I label as "cinematic idiots", who beg to differ with me. They view this film as a narrative disaster, there are sub-plots that go unexplained, there are people who are introduced in a scene as major characters but then never reappear(Robert Forster's cop, the two men in the diner, etc.), and the movie takes a bizarre twist in the last half hour that seems to negate the two hours that came before it. To all the morons who say this movie is pointless, I will clearly illustrate the point: all the weird stuff aside, the film's story is about a young woman's dream of Hollywood that is shattered by an un-fairy tale like reality. There! Was that so hard? After reading this review, all you nay-sayers, go watch the film again, and try to look at it from that angle. Also, another personal note, I feel that Lynch was robbed of a Best Director Oscar for this film. I mean, come on, "A Beautiful Mind?" Yeah, it was a good movie and all, but any moron with a camera could have directed that. I challenge anyone to name one director other than Lynch who could have made this movie. Can you think of one? No, didn't think so. All the personal gripes aside, Mulholland Drive has rightfully been praised by SMART MOVIEGOERS as one of the best movies of 2001. This is a must see for any Lynch fan, and for those of you who are not Lynch fans, rent it with an open mind, and maybe you will be turned into a Lynch fan yet. In fact, my advice would be to watch it on a double-bill with Lynch's way underrated Lost Highway, as the two films have very simular structures. Anyway, that's my two cents, so log-off your computer and watch this mind blowing work of art right away!
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