Beyond Cryptic

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2017)

It is difficult to determine the plot of Mulholland Drive. There are a number of explanations of the plot on the internet. No one explanation is entirely satisfactory.
Some have the plot/story mostly explained. However, there will always be some holes, some things that do not get explained, even with the very best explanation.
Some people say figuring out what is taking place in the movie, takes the fun out of the movie. Therefore, just watch it, and know that is it meant to be cryptic and let it be.
There is a scene just before the opening credits, that shows a room out of focus, then the camera moves over and focuses on a sleeping individual. I believe that scene is the best explanation of the movie. Someone who has an out of focus view, of the world is sleeping and dreaming. That person's dream is out of touch and out of focus with reality because that person's world is out of touch with reality.
Many people see this as a story of Diane Selwyn, in the first half of the movie she is sleeping and dreaming, that she is Betty and meets Rita. Then we see her reality in the second half as a bitter and failed actress who orders a hit on someone and eventually kills herself. There are still hundreds of unanswered questions with this explanation, so...
There are many other explanations to this movie, including that this is a horror movie, meant to shock and scare us but the main horror is that we the audience do not know what is going one and as we continue to watch instead of understanding more, we see more things to confuse us.
The big positive is that this movie made me look for explanations, however, no one explanation completely explains...anything about the movie, and every explanation can be proved wrong...so...
Most importantly, when I watch a movie, I look for an uplift... but this is far from uplifting...and any explanation fails to be uplifiting so...
silencio.