Completely explainable....and brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2002)

David Lynch is a director whose work is not concerned with detail or explanation. He does not give the viewer a complete picture of characters or situations. He does not go out of his way to spell out the intent of a character or explain the meaning of certain events in his movies. There are many effective movies that explain everything and provide complete answers, but it's just not Lynch's style.
David Lynch once referred in an interview to the danger of over-analyzing everything around us. Once we begin to overthink something that has a positive or negative effect on us, that thing begins to lose its effect. The moon was much more mysterious before man walked on it. Life, in general, is full of unanswered questions. Sometimes we have feelings or emotions that are unexplained, pleasurable or not. Many times we have dreams that cannot be explained. Lynch completely manipulates these feelings, emotions, and dreams with Mulholland Drive by providing us with situations, characters, and images that are pleasurable, frightening, and everything in between.
If you did not like this movie because no answers were provided, I would urge you see it again at some point. Believe it or not, this movie DID make sense to me although not after the first viewing.