Multitude of Mulhollands

Rating: Null/10 (19 January 2002)

I try to watch movies differently from other people. I will rate them good or bad like everyone else but for me that is probably the least important reason to watch a movie. I'll say that that sucked or that was awesome but I don't stop there.
Recently I am increasing unable to watch a movie as a thing in itself.

Watching Mulholland drive is like gazing hypnotically at contents overflowing the container or the container imploding into the contents - in either case your willpower is trying to stuff everything back in but nothing ever goes back to the way it was. You wind up with a movie that has a different ending and beginning everytime because the middle self-destructs. Is that what happens? I don't know, I haven't watched every movie that has ever been made in the world, but in Mulholland Drive I have watched a movie that unmakes itself and is therefore constantly reinventing itself into anything, even becoming something contrary to what it started out being, there are a multitude of Mulhollands.
Well, originally I wanted to make something like:
Mulholland Drive made me think of Crime Wave - which I recommend you look up if you like Lynch's films - because that is where I think Lynch got the idea for that scene with the cowboy.
But, ach, I don't watch movies anymore, it's all ONE BIG MOVIE to me with a million directors and the credits fill up a multilingual telephone book, everybody in the book working on the same film.