All the World's a Screen Test

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2005)

Assuming "intelligent design" was intended here, Mulholland Dr. may be a Shakespearean tragedy about role-playing. The shifting identities may represent a dream, other parallel universes, or just stereotypes. Like The Matrix, the "plot" involves events occurring in various loosely connected "universes." For me, this "sound and fury" would have amounted to little more than "a tale told by an idiot" except for the casting of Naomi Watts, whose brilliance makes it worthwhile, although still to a limited (probably younger) audience. So, consistent with the apparent theme, it's not what you know, it's who you know. (To be fair, Faulkner's Sound and Fury is also unintelligible to most).