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All purpose thread for in depth analysis of films. Their meanings. Explanations. Etc.
Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite all-time films. The amount of work that David Lynch put in, crafting the multi-layers to perfection, so many clues built in -- dialogue, props, stories within stories, etc -- it's a stupendous masterpiece the likes of which I've never seen before.
The linked site is a killer amount of text to read and absorb, but well worth the journey for those who love the film. Highly recommended.
Even before I read the link I pasted above, I appreciated the depths and degrees that existed in this film, and I got the essential storyline, but I won't lie and pretend I picked up on a majority of the things going on, the clues, the correlations.
But after reading the entire pages of the linked site (over two nights), I came away with an even greater awe than I did before. So many things gleaned that I never picked up before, it altered how I understood the story of Mulholland Drive, and has pushed this film up even higher on my all-time favorite movies due to not only the sheer depth of the story, but the craftsmanship involved in every scene, every shot, packed with meaning and correlations to multiple other scenes and sub-stories. It's almost unfathomable how an artist can concoct so much meaning in every tiny little detail and every space in between.
Fascinated now to research any book, article, video, interview, or documentary on the "making of" this film.
True, the linked site is just an interpretation, and I didn't agree with everything the author surmised, but I agree with over 90% of it.
And there's even more meaning to this film because it's also a meta commentary on the film itself, a personal statement regarding how the very Mulholland TV project was terminated originally.
I find a lot of Lynch's films are not only multi-layered within themselves, and with call-backs to various other films and historical events/people, but also a meta commentary, a personal aspect related to the project itself embedded in.
There's a couple more interesting little articles worth reading, just because of the intellectualism touched on regarding other things, like LA directors vs NY directors and things like that.
THE CINEMA OF DAVID LYNCH PART TWO: THE L.A. TRILOGY (LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE & INLAND EMPIRE)
Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite all-time films. The amount of work that David Lynch put in, crafting the multi-layers to perfection, so many clues built in -- dialogue, props, stories within stories, etc -- it's a stupendous masterpiece the likes of which I've never seen before.
The linked site is a killer amount of text to read and absorb, but well worth the journey for those who love the film. Highly recommended.
Even before I read the link I pasted above, I appreciated the depths and degrees that existed in this film, and I got the essential storyline, but I won't lie and pretend I picked up on a majority of the things going on, the clues, the correlations.
But after reading the entire pages of the linked site (over two nights), I came away with an even greater awe than I did before. So many things gleaned that I never picked up before, it altered how I understood the story of Mulholland Drive, and has pushed this film up even higher on my all-time favorite movies due to not only the sheer depth of the story, but the craftsmanship involved in every scene, every shot, packed with meaning and correlations to multiple other scenes and sub-stories. It's almost unfathomable how an artist can concoct so much meaning in every tiny little detail and every space in between.
Fascinated now to research any book, article, video, interview, or documentary on the "making of" this film.
True, the linked site is just an interpretation, and I didn't agree with everything the author surmised, but I agree with over 90% of it.
And there's even more meaning to this film because it's also a meta commentary on the film itself, a personal statement regarding how the very Mulholland TV project was terminated originally.
I find a lot of Lynch's films are not only multi-layered within themselves, and with call-backs to various other films and historical events/people, but also a meta commentary, a personal aspect related to the project itself embedded in.
There's a couple more interesting little articles worth reading, just because of the intellectualism touched on regarding other things, like LA directors vs NY directors and things like that.
THE CINEMA OF DAVID LYNCH PART TWO: THE L.A. TRILOGY (LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE & INLAND EMPIRE)
