DVDs & Films Forum - Watched Mulholland Dr. last night - Page 1

I'd fallen asleep halfway through it and found the DVD didn't have chapters, was a bitch fastforwarding an hour whilst also trying to figure out where the f*** I was up to.

Great film though.

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was a bitch fastforwarding an hour whilst also trying to..........find the only scene I can remember.....

Ste
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We will pay the price but we will not count the cost..

I can remember at least two scenes vividly!

No, you just watched it twice.

Ste
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We will pay the price but we will not count the cost..

I find it downright saddening that I know exactly which two scenes you mean.

*runs off to put on Mulholland Dr.*
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I remembering loving this but for no explainable reason because i didn't have a ****ing clue what happened, much in the same way i did with Donnie Darko (still not all there on that one mind), i had always meant to rewatch again though to see if got it second time round but never did. I might give it ago tomorrow at some point, cheers for the reminder

Bryan 

This item was edited on Monday, 24th May 2010, 21:14

I hadn't a clue what was going on the first time I saw it but then watched it again, read a bit about what people's interpretations were online, watched it again, decided to ignore most of those aforementioned opinions/interpretations, watched it again and think I have now figured it out.

I really should find time for another viewing now that I'm pretty certain I know what happened, but Lynch is so fond of the abstract that I could be completely wrong!

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After thinking about it for a bit I've come to the conclusion that it's actually a very simple story, but it just has a lot of misdirection (or at least stuff that appears to be misdirection). I think I was actually looking for hidden meaning where there was none. The gist of it is:

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Diane meets Camilla while shooting a film and they have a steamy affair. Camilla decides to end it and later invites Diane to a party where she humiliates her by cavorting with another actress and implying her engagement to the director, Adam, purely to further her career (at least that would seem likely).

Diane doesn't take too kindly to this, so she hires the hit-man (Jacob from Lost) to kill Camilla. She then goes home and has some sort of lucid dream/masturbatory fantasy, which comprises the first three-quarters of the film. The dream incorporates elements of the events at the party and the meeting with the hit-man (the cowboy, the girl, CoCo, the blue key, and loads more). Of course at the end the guilt gets to her and she kills herself.

I'm sure people can and have come up with many more theories (probably a lot more complex than this), but I guess that's possibly what Lynch wanted.