Mulholland Dr

[direstraits]

I just finished the movie. What a mind funk!

Naomi Watts looks like a double for Nicole Kidman. The other girl is gorgeous. It's weirder than Twin Peaks.

What did you think of it?

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[Martin]

Naomi Watts is one of my favourite actresses of the moment. The other woman - meh.

When I saw this film first time round, I didn't get it one bit but I loved it. Then I rewatchied it, several years later, and I didn't love it all that much anymore. It unexplicable for the sake of being unexplicable. Pseudo-intellectual hogwash. Entertaining, but hogwash none the less.

I read somewhere that Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman are great friends.

Cheers

 

[Sell Sword]

The other girl is Laura Elena Harring and she is HOT. The movie was pretty wild!

 

[Martin]

She looked good naked, I'll give you that. Not as good as miss Watts, though.

Cheers

 

[Stewart]

It's an excellent film. It seems strange the first time you watch it but, with a second viewing, it does make sense and the order of all the events and dreams falls into place.

 

[Martin]

I'm sure it has merit, and somewhere underneath the layers of mist and fog there's a deeper meaning in there somewhere. I loved it at first, but I merely liked it after a second viewing.

Lynch has never really been my cup of tea.

Cheers

 

[Stewart]

I think it helps to have seen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway prior to Mulholland Drive as it borrows a separate storytelling technique from each and combines them to further confusion in Mulholland Drive.

 

[direstraits]

Frankly, I must admit I got confused. My wife, who watched it with me, and who didn't know it was Lynch's movie, told me Betty and Diane are the same person...

I mean, what the...???? But apparently she's right - I immediately went to Salon and got the synopsis.

She somehow has an innate understanding of Lynch. She was the one who kept raving about Twin Peaks and got me to watch it, after all.

Martin - the word on the wire is Nicole and Naomi are best friends, both hailing from Oz. But in the film I cannot get over the fact that she looks like a slightly shorter version of Nicole... Eerily similar.

I thought that Naomi overacted her enthusiasm when she first arrived in LA. Her expression looked so fake. But it's a calculated move...

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[Martin]

I thought that Naomi overacted her enthusiasm when she first arrived in LA. Her expression looked so fake. But it's a calculated move...

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Yeah, I saw that, too - but I assumed that was intended, to underline her innocence, and naivity.

Cheers

 

[direstraits]

It's supposed to underline the dreamlike quality of this part of the movie - where everything seems exaggerated.

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[Martin]

Yeah, that too.

Cheers

 

[hay82]

This movie isn't easy to get in the first viewing. It would probably help to watch the last part of the movie first. It took me a bit of time to find out that only the last part of the movie happens.

 

[Inkheart]

I watched that film in a state of confusion and disbelief. Was the acting just abysmal or what?

Haven't got a clue what it was about either!

 

[hay82]

I watched that film in a state of confusion and disbelief. Was the acting just abysmal or what?

Haven't got a clue what it was about either!

I won't recommend any of Lynch's other movies then
I found the acting to be quite okay, but I can easily be wrong.

 

[Stewart]

I thought that Naomi overacted her enthusiasm when she first arrived in LA. Her expression looked so fake.

This is her perceptions of what Hollywood should be where around every corner lurks a happy mystery. She believes there's a guy who controls Hollywood and decides which movies to make and which to not make, a feeling brought on because she missed out on a role despite thinking she'd done a brilliant job at the audition. This first third of the film is set within the moments she is masturbating, all in her head - a passionate confusion and dream about how it could have/should have been - before she goes to the next room to kill herself.

Was the acting just abysmal or what?

The male acting in Lynch movies is deliberately like that: lethargic, seemingly dazed. The females are typically shining despite all their social ills.

Haven't got a clue what it was about either!

A relationship breakup between two young women in Hollywood which leads one to hire a hitman to take out her ex-lover when she wins a part that she felt was meant for her and marries another lover - a male. Realising that she's ruined the Hollywood dream she kills herself.

 

[hay82]

A relationship breakup between two young women in Hollywood which leads one to hire a hitman to take out her ex-lover when she wins a part that she felt was meant for her and marries another lover - a male. Realising that she's ruined the Hollywood dream she kills herself.

That makes sense, but not entirely what I got. Think I should watch it again then sometime.

 

[geneviv]

I always start off loving a Lynch product but by the end I hate because I'm so frustrated and confused. What was with the monster and the box?

 

[bobbyburns]

it's a mystery film. all your answers are questioned.