The unique neo-noir surrealist film and one best movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2017)

Mulholland Drive is the ninth movie of David Lynch on 2001.
Originally, this story was going to be TV show, like 'Twin Peaks', but this project was canceled in 1999, in this moment, the story end in Rita with her wig. However Canal+ took the project and David Lynch realized the film, as we know it and for own good luck.
This film has attractive, unique and interesting elements: - The mysterious, emotive and subjective soundtrack, moreover excellent three songs: 'Sixteen reasons', 'I've Told Every Little Star' and 'Llorando'. - The critic for Hollywood. - The use of three languages: English, Spanish and French. - The thrilling and tragic lesbian relationship. - The symbolic persons (cowboy, old folks and vagabond), the psychoanalytic elements (colors (blue, red and pink) and traumas) and the metaphorical objects (blue key and blue box). - The neo-noir elements: fatal female, the crime, the detectives and a fatalist environment. - The possibility for interpreter the story from perspectives like metaphysics, dream, reality or both.
Like in The Shawshank Redemption, another of my favorite movies, Rita Hayworth plays an important role in the story because the amnesiac girl takes her name and Lynch uses her name, maybe as a symbol of yearning of stardom and fame in the main character.
Furthermore, this film catapulted the Naomi Watts's career, so in the next years, she did some important movies (21 grams, King Kong, The impossible); however, the Laura Harring's career didn't climb.
The story of this film we can divide in four parts:
-The (metaphorical) beginning: The purple hued swing dance number, Diane and the old folks, and the bed.
-The idealistic (dream) part: One woman suffers a car accident on Mulholland Dr. and then she stays amnesiac meanwhile Betty arrives to Los Angeles and she goes to the Aunt Ruth's apartment, in this place Betty finds the amnesiac woman (Rita), they decides resolve the mystery of accident and the identity of Rita meanwhile Betty search the stardom. For the other hand, the director Adam Kesher must confront the mafia that controls his film and they impose one actress: Camilla Rodas. Adam is fired, his woman is unfaithful and she, with her lover, takes out to Adam of his house. For the night, Adam go to one ranch for see the cowboy, this gay say his that should do. Next day, Betty does her casting and Adam chooses to Camilla; later, Betty and Rita go to Sierra Bonita for find to Diane but they discover that she is die, so Betty do one wig to Rita. In the night, Betty and Rita do the love and they go to 'Club Silencio', afterward Betty finds the blue box, they go the Ruth's apartment, Betty disappears and Rita opens the box with the blue key.
-The depressive (reality) part: Diane Selwyn wakes up and she has many memories with Camilla: from their relationship until their fracture, this include the party, her jealous, her madness, her revenge and her depression. In this part, the watcher must connect the story between Rita and Betty with the story between Camilla and Diane.
-The confused (metaphysical) part: Undoubtedly, the hardest part for understand. The vagabond appears behind of Wilkins restaurant; he throws one bag with the blue box, rotten meat and can opener and the old folks leaves the bag. In the Diane's apartment, she sees the blue key, the two detectives touch her door and the old folks persecute and torment to Diane, she takes one fire gun and shoots herself. Finally, blue smoke appears and we can see the face of vagabond, Betty and Rita together in dream place and the lady of blue hair saying: Silencio. This part can have many interpretations so we must enjoy this ending and we must avoid the over analysis of the story.
I like the neo-noir movies and the surrealist works, so I love this film because David Lynch gets to combine these two genres.
Finally, this film so excellent and it deserves more recognition for the people.