A masterpiece - and much much more

Rating: 10/10 (5 September 2007)

I stumbled over this movie in April this year (2007) and didn't know what to expect. I had never seen a movie from David Lynch before. After first watching it, I was confused - I didn't understand it, but i had the feeling that it made sense anyway. It sucked me in for the whole 140 minutes and didn't let me go afterwards. I began surfing the Internet and talking to my father, who had already seen it and when I first came across the dream/reality-theory it suddenly all seemed to make sense to me. I had to watch it again.
Watching it the second time changed my whole view on movies and since then nothing is as it was before. I was emotionally touched in a way i can't really describe. The movie haunted me for weeks afterwards and I had to watch it again two more times in the same week.
The movie let's you take a look into a main-character's mind and heart by showing us her dreams and hallucinations, in contrast to the cruel reality she is facing.
And this is done so perfectly. The haunting score of Badalamenti, the shaky camera work of David Lynch, the lighting, the music and of course the acting. Naomi Watts is just terrific - as Betty who is the nice, naive little girl from Deep River, Ontario - and as Diane, heartbroken and desperate. You can almost feel the anguish of her tormented soul. It is, in my opinion, one of the best performances in movie history.
There just isn't a movie that can move me the way "Mulholland Drive" does - and I've been looking for one. All the other David Lynch movies are great, too, but not one comes close. "Vertigo" might be the best contender so far.
Thank you David Lynch for this extraordinary work of art.