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Mulholland Dr (Patreon)

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Jeff K.

But why does Simone look like a Kristen Wiig SNL character in that thumbnail, that’s the question we all need to ask ourselves

nossieboy

Perfect WTF! thumbnail

Robert Cooper

Now Lost Highway! Also, Eraserhead is a holiday tradition!

weyland1000

Literally watching the reaction now and would highly recommend another David Lynch classic called Lost Highway 1997 . It took me around 30+ watches of Mulholland Dr before I figured out about 75% of the story .

Jon Johns

Am I out on the edges of reality in thinking they would both enjoy at least the first two 'aired' seasons of twin peaks? Am I simply projecting how much *I* would enjoy watching them watch it? 🤣

Mike FromOz

George: "There just was like a pillow, there's aboot..." Oh you silly Canadians, you can't help yourselves 😁 Back from hospital, cycloptic at the moment from the eye surgery, but I am still going to enjoy watching this with you both ❤

PIG

Not S3? Twin Peaks merges into Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway at that point. Would be a trip!

Jon Johns

*I* would want them to watch everything!!! But popularity contests, I'm not sure if all the stuff would pass. Maybe the movie, but not the other stuff. Season 3 was fantastic IMHO, but not everyone's cup o tea.

Max Carter

I mean Twin Peaks is one of my favourite series of all time so I would definitely enjoy a reaction to that

Matt O'Keefe

I saw this in the theater. I not do remember much. It's a Lynch film so S&G are going to be confused as most like me. I do remember Billy Ray Cyrus being in it thougj.

JBK405

It's a metaphor!

funky weapon

Welcome to the wacky and whimsically gothic world of David Lynch, where nothing makes sense and the plot doesn't matter because it's all a metaphor for a dream! That probably sounds like I dislike Lynch, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. I love most of his films and especially adore Twin Peaks. you guys started your Lynch journey with a doozy. but don't worry, it'll only get weirder from here.

Jedi Lounger

So I am about 30 minutes into the movie with you guys, and you may talk about this at the end. Lynch provided a insert in the DVD that is supposed to help with understanding the movie. I am pasting the text below. Contained within the original DVD release is a card titled "David Lynch's 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller". The clues are: 1. Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: At least two clues are revealed before the credits. 2. Notice appearances of the red lampshade. 3. Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again? 4. An accident is a terrible event—notice the location of the accident. 5. Who gives a key, and why? 6. Notice the robe, the ashtray, the coffee cup. 7. What is felt, realized and gathered at the Club Silencio? 8. Did talent alone help Camilla? 9. Note the occurrences surrounding the man behind Winkie's. 10. Where is Aunt Ruth?

Guthwulf

Your first David Lynch Movie? Oh boy... your theory isn't bad btw. If you liked the symbolism, the surreal imagery, the fragmented storytelling, the dream-like quality and the "mystery puzzle", then you might like some of his other work as well. Especially "Lost Highway" is often described as "prototype for Mulholland Drive". I also would highly recommend to give his legendary cult tv series "Twin Peaks" (1990) a go. It was an insane popcultural phenomen back then and is considered a landmark turning point in television drama, often listed among the greatest television series of all time.

G P

Blue Velvet!

DaveJ

Been looking forward to this one! Would love to see you watch Lost Highway and Blue Velvet later on.

Earl Johnson

2 Hours of George with a "huh?" face. Welcome to David Lynch!

Drew

I’ve had a lil’ amnesia, missing 3 hours from a moped crash. Approximately one hour before the accident, and two hours after, and I was awake the whole time. My last memory was getting off work early at 3pm for a 3:30 appointment with an occupational health clinic. 6:00pm I regain lucidity standing in an emergency clinic. No memory after leaving work, and subsequently found out I passed my health exam. I have no memory of ever getting to that building. Apparently I passed the exam and crashed on the way home, and walked my moped a mile. The next day I found the broken mirror and some other parts in my bike’s helmet compartment. I had cleaned up my own crash while in a concussed daze, consequently I couldn’t find where or how it occurred. It’s wild how crystal clear the rest of the day was, but that afternoon is a black hole 🕳️

PIG

Jesus! Glad you’re okay.

s0rd3z

Haven't watched the reaction yet but this movie is wild and I love it. It's been suggested in the past but Twin Peaks is in the top few TV shows I would like them to watch eventually. Not sure they would get that's it's basically a parody of the prime time soap opera (i.e. Dallas, Knots Landing, stuff my parents watched basically) at certain points but it certainly has its place in pop culture and film history. Season 2 flails around for sure but Lynch came back to kind of right it but certainly fell short in doing so, Fire Walk With Me (prequel to the show) gets a bad rep but I personally really like it. Do not watch the prequel movie before the show though, it has heavy spoilers. Season 3 imo is confusing and more of the abstract Lynchian approach (using sound design and imagery as much as dialogue to tell a story is how I describe it) but I do really enjoy it and think it's worth the experience.

Mike FromOz

Also Miranda Hobbes in 'Sex and the City', played by Cynthia Nixon.

s0rd3z

They have also seen his Dune adaptation but that is really only a taste of the artsy weirdness Lynch likes to play around with.

s0rd3z

I think they should eventually. It's in my top five of shows I think they should eventually see either due to pop culture, influence and/or experience. And they should do release order, I know some of it gets a bad rep as I said in another comment but I really like all of it. Prequel film, s3 included. As artsy, abstract and nonsensical as Lynch can be he's a huge influence on film makers that came after. A lot of times refining his attempts more visual & sound scape type story telling.

s0rd3z

Technically Dune was their first Lynch movie I think. Which is just kind of a taste of what he gets up to in Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet etc. I feel like this is their first real full blown Lynch experience.

Jon Johns

(I am currently watching along with James vs Cinema, and living it with him. )

Jon Johns

S0rd3z, I hear you with the 'bad rep' thought. I don't get it (that some folks only like the TV series 1st two seasons), but I respect others tastes... I sometimes wish more folks who don't like something were better able to explain why, in a way that I could understand 🤣

PIG

I’m watching with James too. I have thought about Cinebinge a couple of times and thought they would enjoy its twists and humor immensely.

HeyHeyJK

Yeah, both of you hit on ideas that were pretty true to what Lynch was doing with this film, although Lynch also doesn’t have, in some cases, any concern whatsoever for logic. If you go back to his very first film Eraserhead it is the only film where I felt trapped in somebody’s nightmare and there’s so much of that in this. I’ve also also thought that a lot of the early parts of the film weren’t Betty’s imagination but her brain doing mash ups of guilt and memories as it shuts down after she shoots herself and as she is dying. If you want a very standard structure in storytelling directed by Lynch, The Elephant Man is in my top 10 favorite films of all time. It was his first studio film, which was produced by Mel Brooks of all people. It is a beautiful and absolutely heartbreaking film based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in Victorian England and it has the first mainstream introduction to some of Lynch’s style, mostly in these short dream sequences during the film, and punctuated by sound design that Lynch loves. John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins are just amazing in it and it has one of my favorite shots of all time in any film, but it will rip your heart out. Then, he also did a G-rated film called The Straight Story which is wonderful and stars Richard Farnsworth, who was the sheriff in Misery, and Sissy Spacek. Both highly recommended. Great reaction to a great film by a truly unique Director. I don’t even love all of his work but there’s no question that there’s never been anyone like him and he was very true to his own vision without worrying what other people thought.

PIG

As mentioned above, even Sopranos has some Twin Peaks in it. The dead man wrapped in plastic in Chris’s dream. Uncle Junior watching soap operas that reflect the plot. Tony’s strange dreamscapes. Lynch and Frost indeed influenced pop culture with Twin Peaks.

PureGonzo

Yes, two of his best for sure!

s0rd3z

Everyone should see The Elephant Man at least once.

s0rd3z

Jon, I think movie gets a bad rep specifically because it's a prequel. That was most of the vitriol when it first came out as I recall. Folks wanted a continuation of the show I think more than a fleshing out of events preceding the show (side note do NOT watch prequel before the TV series ;) )

Freddy Cougar

Just a few minutes into the movie - George - "This is odd.." Simone - "This is unsettling..." You guys summed up David Lynch movies perfectly.

David Martin

What about the hitman scene where where he kills the guy and then steals his book of contacts. It turns out he's been hired by Diane to kill Camilla, so I'm having a problem shoehorning that into George's analysis.

JBK405

The theory I've heard is that Diane is imagining the hitman as incompetent and error-prone, so it's posible that he won't actually kill Camilla. It's part of her 'better world' fantasy, so Camilla won't leave her (Either 'leave her' by moving on with someone else, or 'leave her' by dying).

Andrew

F all the people who voted for this movie. 😂

Guthwulf

right, i forgot. They watched the first Dune

Aaron Stinson

Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Lost Highway are must watch. Twin Peaks is one of the most important shows in the history of Television. Welcome to David Lynch. I’m so excited for you both😂

Aaron Stinson

Given that David Lynch believes that ideas and dreams come to us from some other place and not from us, I can’t really get behind the theory that Diane made it all up herself.

Guy-on-Couch

Heineken? Fuck that shit , Pabst Blue Ribbon!

ShōNuff3K

Okay finally. I've seen this movie three times because I tried to figure out what the heck was going on. Also, Naomi Watts naked. My synopsis is and nobody can refute this unless David Lynch told you otherwise, 2/3 of the movie is what the Naomi Watts character is dreaming about while she is already dead. Good luck

GAB

Stanley Kubrick's favourite movie was "Eraserhead" directed by David Lynch. However, he died before he could have seen this movie. All Lynch's movies are worth watching - and I include "Dune" - although it's not a good adaptation, it isn't boring. Lynch movies are never forgettable - his skill at mind f*ckery is probably what impressed Kubrick. I admit it's not for everyone.

Phil Jacke

Hopefully this is cinebinge beginning their David Lynch era. All of his movies are great. Some of them are easier to understand than others but they all make you feel something. And twin peaks is the best

kelvin

Tell me you’ve never seen a David Lynch film, without telling me you’ve never seen a David Lynch film.

KM

(FYI, I’m posting this before I watch the video, so I don’t know how relevant it is to this specific reaction.) IMO, Lynch tried to make it obvious that most of this movie is a dream. At the beginning we see a 1st person view of someone getting into bed (a scene Lynch himself highlighted as being important for understanding this movie), and the big “reality” change only happens after Diane wakes up in the same bed. I don’t see why Lynch would put that in there if he didn’t want us to think it was a dream. And Betty’s first scene in the movie is incredibly dream-like. Plus the idea that it’s a dream makes the movie more interesting IMO. We get to consider how stuff in real life gets jumbled up in dreams and how dreams reflect our real-life experiences, beliefs, emotions, relationships, sense of self, etc., and then we use that to better understand Diane and her story. Not everything in this movie can be analyzed, in the same way we can’t understand or analyze every part of a dream, but IMO there’s still plenty that we CAN analyze. For example, I think the movie gives us enough info to know where the hit man hid the blue key. Here are some of my interpretations (this is far from comprehensive): Betty and Rita aren’t directly Diane and Camilla. There’s lots of room to speculate how the characters in Diane’s dream (especially Betty, Rita, and dream Diane) relate to Diane in real life, especially her sense of identity and her complicated relationship with Camilla. I think Betty is mostly Diane plus who Diane wants/wanted to be. For example, both moved from Canada to LA to pursue an acting career with the help of an aunt who worked in Hollywood, and both auditioned for a movie directed by Bob Brooker who wasn’t impressed with their performance. But Betty is more confident, optimistic, and trusting of others (this could also reflect how Diane felt before she became disillusioned with Hollywood). Because Diane envied Camilla despite her infatuation, Betty shares some similarities with Camilla. For example, Betty is self-assured, charismatic, and willing to use her sexuality to further her career, and she draws the attention of Adam, the director. (Of course, Betty is much nicer). Also, the dream conspiracy forcing Adam to cast dream-Camilla as his lead actress reflects Diane’s resentment over the real Camilla getting the lead on The Sylvia North Story; she thought Camilla didn’t deserve the role. (It’s important to keep in mind that this was before the Harvey Weinstein public fallout, and the idea of a “casting couch” was way too prevalent. It was common for talented actresses to be overlooked or even blacklisted because they didn’t “cooperate” with the creepy, powerful men who wanted to feel them up.) Rita, too, reflects a part of who Diane is. Cinematically, we see that with the “we don’t stop here” limo scenes and with Rita wearing that blonde wig. She’s vulnerable, passive, dependent on Betty, and scared of being found by the police. Rita saying, “I don’t know who I am” likely reflects Diane’s broken sense of self, which (to put it lightly) took a major hit after she had Camilla murdered. As far as I can tell, except for her appearance and her hooking up with Betty, Rita doesn’t share many traits with real-life Camilla. About the key: I’m almost positive the hit man left the blue key in that alcove behind Winkie’s, partly because that’s where the weird homeless monster with the box is. IMO, that early scene with those two men at Winkie’s reflects Diane going behind Winkie’s to check for the blue key, including her fear/apprehension while heading back there and her absolute devastation after finding the key. I won’t go into detail analyzing their conversation, but it sounds like Diane talking to herself, building up the courage to check for the key (and hoping the key isn’t there). Also, after that one guy passes out/dies(?), the other guy keeps asking “Dan, are you alright?” But it’s muffled, and IMO the “Dan” sounds a lot like “Diane.” I interpret dream Diane being dead as a reflection of real-life Diane’s loss of identity plus her suicidal thoughts since Camilla’s murder. I think there was an unexpected witness when the hit man killed Camilla. I base that on the dream scene where the hit man botches his escape after killing that one guy plus the scene where Adam finds his wife in bed with the pool man; the pool man says, “Just forget you ever saw it, it’s better that way,” and Adam’s wife says, “What the hell are you even doing here?” The fact that the police are after Diane shows that the hit man fucked up in some way, at least. I didn’t notice this before, but the sounds from the beginning car crash (young people screaming + crash) are very similar to the very end (Diane’s screaming + bullet shot). There’s lots of smoke after both, too. Edit: the song “Llorando” at Club Silencio is a cover of Roy Orbison’s song “Crying,” and the lyrics give us insight into Diane’s heartbreak.

PidMudda

Like others have said, the biggest theory is that the first and second act is Dianne having a dream of an ideal life after she hired the hitman. But there are other aspects of the movie that contradict it or have other meanings that are hard to understand at first.

Alex

I wish you guys would watch more of David Lynch. And perhaps check out Twin Peaks.

Philipp Roensch

I love this movie, but I could not explain it, or presume to. There is just so much in David Lynch's work that transcends simple explanations, that would make it boring. You are very well on a common tread, there is a fantastical Hollywood and a real Hollywood. Diane has had quite the awful experience at it, and this movie happens around her final moments. A pivotal scene for another, dreadful reality is: Camilla shows Diane a shortcut to the top of the hill, where the stars, producers, directors are. Even calling it "a lovely walk", we see her relationship with the director, and know what might have created this shortcut. Wholly different reading: it is Camilla's story, but I don't quite see that. Diane's story is real and important enough.

Dag Einar Bergli

The guy is telling the creepiest story ever. His dream is playing out as he's sitting there. He's scared out of his mind. George: "Aww, he didn't even touch his food." Simone: "Yeah..."

blerbaberpaterb

correction: 1. AFTER the guy tells his story. 2. Simone: "Yeah!"

rictus grin

welcome to the wonderful world of Art House Cinema

Dag Einar Bergli

Wtf are you talking about? Maybe it got lost in translation, but it was just meant as a funny observation where after that tense and creepy moment they were BOTH worried about the food. The ... didn't mean that Simone disagreed or shrugged.

rictus grin

hope this increases the chance i might get to see a reaction The Cook the Thief His Wife and her Lover ;)

jerry

When George said that the movie "feels like a dream" he hit on the way a lot of Lynch's work feels to people and I assume a lot of that is intentional. I'm by no means a Lynch scholar (really just started watching after his death) but he might be the only filmmaker I've seen that can really capture the way a dream feels, the surreal and heightened nature of the images, just fragments - but with the underlying sense that it's not just random shit but informed by things you've seen or thought about from your life. Some of the causes are easily identifiable ('I dreamt about my ex because I've been feeling lonely lately') but much of it is elusive. And things that happened to you on the day of the dream are mashed together with things that have been buried in the brain's depths for years with no discernible pattern. (I enjoyed Inception but the dreams in that movie in no way felt like the way dreams feel to me - of course maybe other people feel differently). I'm sure I'm not the only person who tries to reconstruct the "why the hell did I dream about that" logic after waking up from a particularly gripping/vivid dream. And it can be a frustrating experience because my brain starts processing everything in a kind of prosaic way, constructing a linear narrative that "makes sense." I think that 's like 95% of artists or filmmakers. One of Lynch's gifts is that he was able to bypass the barrier that wrings out most of the brain's wondrous creativity and color, it's ability to make associations that no waking person ever could. He communicated those feelings and images on screen. What an artist, he is really missed.

jerry

Also a great movie for rewatches, things definitely fall into place more on a second or third viewing.

Jpsynergy

Excited for this David Lynch journey.

Farbod

Love this one. George really did a great job understanding the film for a first watch.

maikeru

nah, I'd prefer they watch Lost Highway next

Tyler Foster

Blue Velvet also an essential before diving into "Twin Peaks," IMO.

Matheus Dutra

I dare you to watch inland empire haha

Axelle Echo

Love seeing folk enjoy seeing one of Lynch's films for the first time, and ya'll are brill anyway. And folks have probably said this. But if you like this please please give Twin peaks a go, alotta love for that series and it's right up this alley.

maikeru

Laura Dern's face in some close up shots are insane😖, not really a fan of that film, don't know if I ever wanna give it a second chance

Matheus Dutra

I agree... I really struggled with that film. Muholland drive is bizarre but it has a narrative that you can understand if you read between the lines but inland empire is just purely insanity the whole time and not in a good way haha still a experience I wish everyone had once in their lives XD

Tyler Foster

My interpretation of the creepy bum is that the Winkies is mentally associated with a feeling of dread because that's where Diane sealed Camilla's fate by hiring the hitman. Someone in here said that the hitman may hide the key behind the diner near that dumpster, and discovering it would feel very much like the guy reliving his dream because he says that she will find it there when the job is done, so the horror is not the bum but discovering that Camilla really is dead. The bum also represents the future Diane is afraid of -- she has no money, no career prospects, and she had a woman killed. Because the blue key symbolizes Camilla's death, the box it opens also represents death. When they get close to opening it in the dream, both Betty and Rita "die," and we return to reality. Last but not least, I think you've overcomplicated the old people just a tad. In the dream, they're strangers to Betty, but in the jitterbug opening, there is a superimposed visual of Watts, bathed in bright light, with them next to her. Seems very likely they are Diane's loving parents and that their torment of her at the end is a manifestation of her guilt at how her life has turned out since that moment she thought everything was going to change for her. When I knew this movie was coming, I posted a comment saying I felt that for Lynch, the viewer's experience was more interesting than whatever he meant, which is why he pretty famously did not like explaining his films. There is a story here, and viewers can figure it out if they try, but the point of the film is the journey, emotionally and psychologically. Whatever it stirred up in either of you two, that's what was interesting to him. It's funny to me how audiences can understand that a movie is taking the viewer on a journey like that as long they feel like the path isn't ambiguous. They laugh, they cry, and even if the story is clever or shocking, unless it's especially complicated, people generally don't act like just following what's happening is the achievement -- they understand that the emotions it creates are the point. When a movie is more abstract, though, some people stop thinking of it that way, and that the primary goal of the film is to understand it. It's fascinating.

J.R.

really good take george, especially for a first time viewing. lost highway is similar in ways but maybe even more of a mindfuck, hope you do that one soon. Blue Velvet is more accessible but also just a great film.

Amelie W

Very much so. I think Lynch's greatest strength was the creative courage to just run with his unfiltered unconscious. That and somehow getting Hollywood backing to put it on film. And a less unique skill, but of course he knew how people are compelled by mystery. I had a chuckle at the end where George and Simone were expecting that list of clues to have "answers."

PIG

George is usually spot on. I love both of their reactions to this one.

PIG

"In the future..."

João Rafael Ferreira

Idk if you watch videos we recommend, S and G, but i'll just put this here. Its just a 2 min answer from a q&a from David Lynch that i think is truly beatiful. And is not just about his films, it applies to cinema as an art form. Such a good short but profound lesson on how we relate to images in a film (*theres no spoilers or anything on his other movies, is just a general thing) https://youtu.be/YtlrDGRCAb8?si=Kg1IcdVjm0jeo-Sc

PIG

Lol. A freebie?

PIG

I had a dream where a man was fucking my wife. But it was Billy Ray Cyrus. Ever had that dream? No?

MacGuffinStuff

I thought I had seen this movie but obviously not because I was also completely lost throughout, but I loved this movie. It's literally like some of my most vivid, but not lucid, dreams, I'm always in some version of a maze, usually a campus, populated by people I know or have met, and it's just all these interactions with other characters, interactions that are meaningful to me but otherwise not often of much import, as I try to navigate the maze, until I wake up dead. So basically LIFE. That's my theory after this first watch. Also I think of context, it IS about Hollywood, something about it gave me Pulp Fiction vibes, the meta, actors portraying actors, life in the actual city of Los Angeles, the diner lol (was the soul box a spoof of the Macguffin suitcase in Pulp Fiction?) and yeah it did make me think of things like the Black Dahlia, and all the many sad stories, and ghost stories, about the people who came to Hollywood seeking the ring but ended up dead or in the gutter, or moving to the "Inland Empire", where I live lol. That's also a film by David Lynch, which I have not seen, when I think of movies about the Inland Empire I think of "Alpha Dog" because it's a true story, crazy story but true. I've met shitty suburban wannabe gangsters like that, except they were from Riverside, not Claremont. Also, "Chinatown", Polanski, Nicholson, tells some of the story about Mulholland the man. David Lynch was really going in on LA with this and I think he did it as someone who probably loves the city, but not so much the industry, that's my thought, could be wrong.

FranciscoGios

Yeah this was a weird movie like Simone said but I kept on watching it because the locations were close to home. I am surprised that David Lynch filmed scenes with Hispanic speaking actors & actresses so the reason I voted for this movie was because I drove thru this part of Mulholland Drive a few times but never had the mindset to pick up this movie because I knew David Lynch was a very very different director putting it nicely to the Lynch followers.

The Film Effect

Incredible film, but I would’ve recommended starting with Blue Velvet. It’s the perfect introduction to Lynch imo.

simon brouillard

Art is awesome. Now I just want you guys to react to eraserhead, Lynchs first movie , a very easy and linear movie 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 Also Twin Peaks for more weird Fun sad head scratching Lynch and he is awesome in is scene in The Fablemans

The Film Effect

Lost Highway is so damn good. I watched it three nights ago for the first time and haven’t stopped thinking about it. Its Lynch’s most metal movie for sure.

Jesse Coombs

Welcome to the world of David Lynch, one of my favorite artists. If you make another channel called "Cinebinge Reacts to Lynch", I would subscribe twofold. All his movies are great (except Dune, although that has it's merits), and Twin Peaks (including the Return) is amazing.

The Film Effect

Agreed, plus it gives you an opportunity to get acquainted with Lynch’s themes and melodramatic aspects like the dialogue. My first viewing it took me out for a second, but once I understood what he was doing I went with it. Now, it’s one of my favorite films.

Ian Tellam

Not a Lynch recommendation, but something along similar lines for those into his movies is the 1977 Robert Altman film 'Three Women', starring Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall. It was critically acclaimed at the time but has become quite obscure over the years. I only saw it recently but it really stuck with me. Maybe a little more psychological and challenging than this, but worth seeking out.

KM

For me, it's a lot of fun speculating as to what different parts of this movie mean, even though I know a lot of it is subjective. I already commented about my general theory of this movie (I think it's mostly a dream), so these are just some random thoughts and speculations that may or may not make sense as I watch this movie for the nth time: That first scene shows the jitterbug competition Diane won, which is what inspired Diane to seek an acting career. The elderly couple from the airport scene are with her. They might be family members or judges or audience members or loved ones who cheer on Diane, but whoever they are, they're in some way linked to her Hollywood dream. In an interview, Lynch said his favorite movie was the neo-noir Sunset Boulevard, which MD alludes to a bit. In Sunset Boulevard, the narrator is dead/dying as he goes through the movie, and I'm pretty sure one of the characters is named Betty. One of the streets Rita crosses after leaving the site of the accident is Sunset Blvd. In Betty's first scene at the airport, the voices were dubbed on purpose. As Betty says goodbye you can see the cab driver open his trunk, but when Betty turns to look for her bags, the trunk is closed. Some of the music in this movie sounds sooo similar to the music from Twin Peaks!! I think dream-Adam's story line is largely related to the conspiracy to have Camilla murdered and Diane trying to escape arrest ("this is the girl"; the man at the hotel telling Adam these guys know where he is and are coming for him; maybe the cops even froze Diane's bank accounts the way Adam's were frozen? Again, I'm just speculating here). I have no idea what "Ed's famous black book" could refer to. I wonder if the real hit man "stole" some of Camilla's jewelry to make it look like a robbery gone wrong (I'm watching the part where Adam takes his wife's jewelry to dump pink paint on it). A stupidly large number of murderers have used Google to look up their crimes before or shortly after the bodies have been found, wanting to know if the police are onto them. I wonder if Diane did something similar (in regards to Betty calling to ask if there was an accident on Mulholland Dr). I'd love to hear others' thoughts on Louise Bonner. I wonder what happened to Adam in real life after Camilla was murdered. Dream-Adam is funny, and I think he's the most relatable; both he and the viewer spend most of the movie absolutely bewildered. Yes!! I 100% think it's a dream, it has the exact same feel as a weird, vivid dream. The audition scene is very interesting (and extremely uncomfortable). There's the whole aspect of actresses having to play along with creepy, unnecessarily sexual stuff, and then it turns into (or at least adds) what I think is a bit of a reflection of Diane's feelings toward Camilla ("I'll kill you...I hate you. I hate us both" in the context of a toxic, sexually-charged relationship). The director does say, "Don't play it real until it gets real." Maybe that's partly related to the shift in tone near the end of the audition scene (as it also pokes fun of many directors and acting coaches). That one actor with the ridiculous tan saying he wants to "play it nice and close" like he did with "the one with the black hair" makes me think about Camilla and how she navigated Hollywood. Also, Diane is super salty about the casting for the real Bob Brooker film. Dream-Camilla isn't bad, but she's far from the best. I wouldn't be surprised if real-Camilla were good but not great. We don't know how good of an actress Diane is, though, either. I imagine Diane went from zero to "I love you" pretty quickly in real life, too. This is all a dream (it's all an illusion). That song "Llorando" always gets me. To me, it describes how Diane feels about Camilla after her heart is broken, especially after seeing Camilla again (before that humiliating dinner) and after realizing Camilla is gone forever (because the hit man Diane hired successfully killed Camilla). The original song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLC9o_unLq4) is great, too, and the lyrics are basically the same. The aunt is wearing the same outfit she wore when she left. "Hey pretty girl, time to wake up." It would be very hard to convince me ~3/4 of this movie isn't Diane's dream. I imagine whenever Diane hears someone knocking on her door, she thinks it could be the police. We get to see the trope of the evil bisexual lol. "Can Diane stay?" and then that smirk and eye contact with Diane as Camilla kisses Adam. And then insisting she go to that dinner? Jesus Christ. Camilla didn't deserve to be killed, but holy shit, what a bitch. Diane is crazy, though, and you don't fuck with crazy. Naomi Watts is so good in this. This was her breakthrough role! I get chills when Diane says, "This is the girl." What a great payoff! That sentence must have been burned into her memory, no wonder it popped up over and over in her dream. The hit man laughs when Diane asks what the key opens, since it's just used to communicate that Camilla's been murdered and isn't meant to open anything. But we know it opens that box. There are tons of popular interpretations as to what that box represents, and I think many/most are valid. That part at the end with the couple spooking Diane is so weird, but it's related to Diane's dream of being a star, which started when she won that jitterbug competition. I was underwhelmed when I first saw this movie, but for a few weeks afterward I kept thinking about it, so I decided to rewatch it even though I wasn't sure why. I'm glad I did! Y'all should watch Twin Peaks!! It's weird but definitely not as weird as most of Lynch's movies, and plenty of people who aren't into Lynch's movies are fans of the show; David Lynch and Mark Frost created the show together, but they were far from the only writers/directors. It's a soap opera, a satire of daytime soap operas, and a surreal murder mystery horror.

MacGuffinStuff

Wake up dead, both a great Megadeth song and a strange but intentional reference to "La Bamba"??? No but I had to. "El Vivir es a dormir, El Morir es a despertar", and I think it was on the Passion of the Christ reaction George asked about snakes in different cultures and I forgot this one, to the indigenous people in Mexico, they would say the World is a snake shedding its skin. Which is deeply cool to me.

Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field

Yes! One of the more under appreciated film brats! Its about time we get some Robert Altman/more Shelley Duval on the channel.

Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field

Welcome back to Lynch’s lovely lodge of transcendentalism, really happy this ended up winning last week’s poll. Maybe ‘84 “Dune” was a weird place to start but I still see too many of Lynch’s hallmarks to deny that movie’s place among his filmography. And what a return! Lots of ink has been spilled and many keys stroked attempting to “make sense” of “Mulholland Drive”. And there are throughlines to the many theories out there that appeal to me, I’m particularly interested in the “Bardo Thodol” angle (not too dissimilar from the dream interpretation that’s commonly used). As well the as the darker implications of Diane being a victim of incest/abuse to explain the troubled mental state she’s in. A clue for this is the painting of Beatrice Cenci in Aunt Ruth’s home. Utlimately though I just have fun immersing myself in these strange waters. There’s a humanistic compassion thats present even in some of the darker subject matter in Lynch’s body of work that I find comforting despite how disturbing/odd things can and do get. We lost a fine fisherman with his passing this year.

Alexrandom

I love David Lynch so much ! I think you should watch most of his films. I'll rank them here in order of what I think you'll enjoy most. At the very top "a straight story". It's way too overlooked. A beautiful little film about people at the twilight of their lives. "The elephant man". To me this is his masterpiece. Crushing film, wonderful story. "Blue velvet" "Dune" actually more interesting to me than the Villeneuve films (but not as tight because of development hell basically) "Eraserhead" I'd you guys ever watch twin peaks you're in for a treat. (S1,2, fire walk with me, S3 and you're good)

Anthony Noar

I have nightmares about the man behind Winkie's.

matan ron

Ah, so is this your first David Lynch film?

matan ron

Not sure if David Lynch's "clues" help by much to the understanding of the movie. I think it might just be his way of trolling the audience.

Jimmy Olofsson

Really enjoyed your reaction to one of my favorite films! Also kudos to George for his take on the movie which was pretty great for a first time viewer!

Dmitriy A.

I agree - it is absolutely, without doubt, trolling. Anyone familiar with David's views on art and his films in particular, knows that there are no such things as 'clues' and 'unlocking' his films, they are not puzzles to solve so that you can feel good about yourself.

Dee Aitch

I'm ecstatic y'all decided to watch Lynch's most accessible and understandable film for your first foray into his work. I'm really happy I knew the song "Crying" before this film as it made the moment a lot more impressive.

Jacob King

My interpretation would be that there are layers of reality, from subjective experience, dreams, fantasies, memories, stories and in this movie there is the extra complication of films and screenplays and other performances. The Club Silencio scene reminds us that as an audience we are never sure if we are watching something real or a simulacra. Betty can be all of the women from the waitress to the small town girl to the star to the bitter failure. The mistake is thinking that you can know exactly what is happening. A good follow up would be Vertigo.

Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field

I think its cool that Lynch was an early adopter to TV’s artistic potential. Though I would say shows as early as “The Twilight Zone” already fulfilled the promise of TV as a creative medium, but I guess being a big name in the “art house” cinema community signaled that idea for others to be involved in that space. And we’ve seen that grow into the variety of shows we love today. Kind of interesting that Lynch even made a movie that has themes that can be read as an indictment on Hollywood/the studio system when he himself had a very successful career all things considered. Not to say one can’t be apart of something and recognize the faults within, but I guess this goes with the many paradoxes one can see as themes in his work. I guess the issue of movies grappling with TV’s presence is something still being explored, exacerbated more so by the dominance of streaming services messing with established orders. As well other activities online or otherwise that compete for our attention. Fun read, more fuel for thought and discussion, something Lynch would have encouraged.

Skate Eight

The true mobius strip narrative!

Vince

I love this movie, and I enjoyed your reaction. I have a different intepretation/theory every time I watch Mulholland Drive. But like most Lynch movies or shows you just enter his world and enjoy the weirdness and mystery. I hope we'll see more of his movies (or Twin Peaks) on your channel !

PIG

I would personally put Lost Highway up with Muholland Drive. Even for the soundtrack alone.

Skate Eight

Baby wants 'Blue Velvet'!!!

CappyZed

I’ll probably get reamed for this but…the thing about fever-dream movies is, you have to be into the vibe to enjoy them and I was definitely NOT into this. I saw it in theatres and to this day remains one of the most miserable viewing experiences of my life. The more praise it received the angrier it made me, far beyond any willingness to “give it a second chance”. There’s plenty of weird movies I enjoy and totally get if other people don’t like them…this is one of my few times on the other side of the fence.

Logan Kerlee

I did not enjoy this movie. This was my first time watching this and it didn't vibe with me at all. Felt like the whole thing was off and just no thanks on that]. One day I'll rewatch this and I hope that I'll enjoy it more then. :) We'll see.

Tymothi Loving

I think you might enjoy Twin Peaks as a series watch. It's a part of television history, and has an influence that has resonated through today, and for the first (1991) and third seasons (2017) at least, was some of the strongest stuff Lynch was involved in.

LazyBoy Stays Up Late Watchin Video Tapes

I'm so glad I looked up what the plot line actually is after watching several times, high out of my mind, over the years. It's so much better now that I know what is goin on now.

Richard S

What did I just watch?! I did enjoy watching it with you. Yes, it's like a dream. It's like a bunch of random scenes that get pulled together when she wakes up to her nightmarish life.

Silver Linings Starman

Played by the same woman who portrayed "The Nun" in the Conjuring universe.

Silver Linings Starman

This movie is right in the middle range of David Lynch weirdness in my opinion. Stranger than "The Elephant Man" or "The Straight Story" but less so than "Lost Highway" or "Rabbits".

photos_by_geoff

I waited 4 months after you posted this because I knew I was always creeped out by this movie. I kept laughing at the beginning comments you both kept making when you said you were confused or what is happening? LOL... I literally kept saying out loud, "You haven't gotten to any of the cobfusing parts yet!" LOL... George,great explanation of what this movie is though. Totally helped me get over not understanding it. Thanks for reacting to this insane movie. You should also watch Magnolia soon!