I really thought after watching the last part of Mulholland Drive, everything would finally click. That was not the case...at all. It may have had something to do with the fact that I couldn't see a good portion of the movie because every scene that took place in the dark/night time was too hard to see on the screen. What I really think was the main problem after watching this, for me personally was the fact that the movie was a story within a story.
Maybe if Iwatch the movie again for a 2nd or even a 3rd time I may enjoy it, but ultimately I was just frustrated. The first thing that bothered me was the lack of music. Not until the last part of the movie was there any background music happening. It created this feeling that I wasn't watching a movie at all and just watching real people going on with their lives. It also made everything take longer to actually to play out.
Another part that bothered me was how there was 3 or 4 story lines that didn't really connect to each throughout most of the film.
The scene where the nervous guy was sitting in the diner with another man explaining the fear of this man watchign him, wasn't even brought up again until the end of the film, which from what I got out of it had nothing to do with either of the main characters. We see this nervous guy for a split second at the end of the film walking by the diner.
let me just say that in order for me to give a decent blog on this film I really do have to watch this again. From Naomi Watts playing the parts of both Betty and Diane , I was confused how this could have happened if Betty saw Diane's dead body on a bed...unless that really was Betty dead looking into a dream? I'm not really sure on this one.
I think that director David Lynch was really playing with us as the audience to understand and connect the pieces of the film together. We as humans have our minds conditioned to understand certain things in a sequential pattern that has a certain structure to it. Lynch went and altered reality playing with our dreams and reality to see what we can understand from these multi plot narratives. The article points out that Lynch is trying to challenge us to see what we are conditioned to understand. Lynch is sucking us into this paradoxal world that changes events that may have happened that we only dream of.
I still am not quite sure if all I am saying is relevant at all to the movie, but this was the best I could interpret. I'm still not sure what the box was supposed to represent, whether it was like opening pandora's box or entering a alternate reality, but I will find out.
