Now I'm no expert on David Lynch, but I have recently seen a lot of his films lately due to the fact that I'm in another course that is all about David Lynch and his time in the film Industry. I really enjoyed Mulholland Drive, because of two reasons really, one because it plays a lot with the concept of reality and imaginary, or the whole light and dark world that Lynch typically depicts in his films, and two , because Mulholland Drive really plays around with the audience.
I really enjoyed a lot of the psychology behind the film, with the audience being tricked into believing the happenings that are taking place on screen. That is why I would have to say the the scene with Club Silencio is probably my favorite and probably the key scene of the film. The reason I figured that it is key is because that scene is probably best described as the transition scene, from the light world two the dark world. The club scene included a conductor that told the audience that what they were seeing and hearing was a recording as recording and not the real thing. For the case of Betty/Diane, this was shown to affect her state of mind and even cause her to convulse because she believed in the imaginary so much, which was pretty weird and i didnt get that at the time. Anyways, just like how Betty believed that she was I this imaginary world, the audience also believed that they were in the same world because emotionally we are taken in by the performances, such as the Spanish singing lady. Now this did effect me on an emotional level I'm not sure if it did for anyone else but I do believe that was the point, because there were no subtitles so we weren't supposed to know what was happening exactly. Instead we were supposed to feel what was going on and be drawn in...then brought out as soon as she fainted, but kept singing.
So in my opinion I really liked that it played with us on psychological and emotional level. Alright in class I really liked that we tried to put a narrative to not only this film, but in general for David Lynch's work. He himself has said multiple times that he hates it when people try to make sense of his films, but I really think that we came up with some good ideas to what some of Mulholland means. Now I thought that it was just about the imaginary and reality but in class someone described Betty and Rita to be the same person, one just being the more sexual side of a person and the other being the peppy blond. I think that was a very interesting way of looking at the film because theirs so many ways of interpreting work by lynch. I thought this description was pretty accurate because both character end up being blond, and there is a point where they are next to each other...blond looking at there mirrored images.
The reading that we were given really put the whole fim in perspective for me to in a way make me see what was really happening. What I'm talking about is the whole ordeal with Mulholland Drive being a depiction of Hollywood and the good and the bad of how that town works.I really think that this fits what we are seeing on screen , because of how many different elements from different films are incorporated into the first "dream world" part. I believe that this really shows the whole " I'm gunna be a star" aspect of moving to Hollywood.
Once I read this I really thought that this was a story that happened to lynch, him being in the spot of Adam the director. the only reason I say this is because a lot of his films are beautiful like Mulholland Drive, but Dune was kinda totally against his will, so I though that this was showing what he was going through at the time. Haha I really can see David Lynch smashing someones windshield in.
