whenever i listened to the red hot chilli peppers' ninth studio album stadium arcadium (2006) - one of the songs that would stand out is the one entitled "tell me baby". it goes something like this:
they come from every state to find
some dreams were meant to be declined
tell the man what did you have in mind
what have you come to do
this town was made of many things
just look at what the current brings
so high it's only promising
this place was made on you
and this song would remind me of this film - mulholland drive. at that time naomi watts was still relatively unknown, though she had been acting for years but yet was still not recognized as a major acting talent. and that's what the story is about - like the song - it is about broken dreams. david lynch takes us into the complicated labyrinth of dreams that acts as a metaphor of how hard it is to be successful in the hollywood entertainment factory. he literally takes us into the dreams - as in dreams occured during one's sleep - of a young woman called diane selwyn who dreams of making it big in hollywood. the story is an intricate web of multiple personalities, projected desires, unfulfilled wishes, reality and fantasy, and ultimately - the horror of broken dreams. this is not an easy movie to watch - but i love its clever execution. i love it that the dreams we have in our sleep are the misplaced visions we have in our waking hours is finely interwoven in this movie. it is not mechanically executed like in inception (2010), rather lynch sought to imitate the mechanism of dreaming.
do we ever think, how we dream?
this movie came to my mind when i was reading about the lesbian sex scene in the black swan (2010). the author of the site (i can't remember who) contends that the hype surrounding the scene is generating negative limelight towards the movie because it is obviously more than just lesbian sex. i often hold the same opinion about sex scenes in general - i find it distracting. sure i get the point that they are having sex and indicate sexuality - but that's as much information as i can gather. in most cases such scene doesn't drive the movie forward. thus scenes that extend more than 1 minute is really not necessary no matter how tastefully it is done. mulholland drive has one of such scene involving naomi watts and the beautiful laura harring - i am not singling this out - but their relationship is a prime mover of this story.
give it a view, which i think will be a roller coaster ride for you. you will come out with more questions than answers. perhaps later on, when you feel like contemplating about this movie - the following links can help you out with the clues.
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