Getting Lost in Confusion is Beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2004)

Mulholland Drive is a conundrum that is just as curvy and convoluted as the road for which the film is named. Set in the mysterious and menacing `dream world' of Los Angeles, the film circles around a trance-like landscape where the actual amalgamates with the fantastic, defying logic. Lynch's surrealist techniques--unnatural juxtapositions, irrational "realities" of dreams, circular narrative, and shifting identities--combine to form a beautiful composition, like a painting by Dali. Although Mulholland Drive does not adhere to any logical structure, each mirage of sight and sound evokes several emotional responses within the viewer. Usually, any piece of art will speak to us on an emotional level. And we usually cannot explain why; it just does. Likewise, I cannot explain all of the reasons Mulholland Drive speaks to me; it just does.