Mulholland Drive

(Official trailer of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive)

                      The surrealist film, Mulholland Drive, was released year 2001. It was directed by the great American film director David Lynch. We were given the chance to watch the film inside the classroom with the whole class. Because its merely a film that adapts the surrealism style, we had a hard time realizing every connecting events in the film. After watching, we were tasked to write something about what we understood on the flow of the story. Here goes mine.

                         Everything that happened starting from the car accident until the part where Diane (Naomi Watts) was masturbating on the couch, it was all just a product of hallucination of Diane. Diane, being in love to Camilla (Laura Harring) got jealous after Camilla chose Adam (Justin Theroux) over her. Her jealousy made her hire a hit man to kill Camilla. From the car accident scene, I think Camilla already died on that part. Everything that happened after that was all just Diane's imagination, since she was truly in love with Camilla. In her imagination, she was Betty, whom Camilla fell in love with. And all the names and people inside her imagination were people she encountered in her real life. Camilla and Diane died. It was mentioned in the story that a man's attitude determines, to a large extent, how his life will be. I guess this statement of the cowboy truly fits the life of Camilla and Diane, the reason why they ended up dying.

                      I got the idea that the film was just an illusion, from the scene at the club where it was repeatedly mentioned that, there's no band yet we hear music. It was also mentioned that everything is recorded, everything is just an illusion. From that scene, it gave me a hint that the film is just an illusion of Diane Selwyn.

                                It was a great movie. It stressed my brain cells a bit, but the fulfillment of figuring out the true happening in the story, that itself is a great achievement. :D I'm not closing any door to watching films like this in the future. 

- ClarissaAlimot