MullHolland Dr. is only understood by understanding the play scene

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2005)

I haven't read all the comments so if someone has already pointed this out I apologize.
In short, Lynch movies are designed to only be understood after a second, or a series of, re-watchings. First time I saw it I was confused. The second time, my mind was blown.
Watts character killed the brunette out of professional jealousy.
The amnesia in the beginning is really Watts' character remembering the brunette, but Watts is in a moment of shock and doesn't believe it just yet.
The turn-around. Watts realizes what she's done at the theatre. If you notice the brunette woman singing on stage at one point falls dead but her voice continues. Just like the host says in the play. You hear a trumpet, yet there is no trumpet (notice how he seems to be looking at Watts character). Lightning begins to strike, Watts character begins to shake. She's remembering the truth. She's hearing and seeing what's not there......the brunette woman with amnesia.
Now we see the brunette at the beginning in the car, going to a fancy party. The fact is, is that Watts character desperately wanted to make it in the movie business but is growing more and more jealous of her brunette counterpart. She hires the hit-man, that Lynch cleverly throws in at odd points early on to throw us a curveball, and has the brunette woman murdered (we even see the dead body early on when the two women are searching the mysterious house).
The blue box and the key........Remember at the end how it is opened by the mysterious man behind the dumpster. The horrible truth is unleashed on Watts. Remember early on the story of the two guys at the diner who we never see again? The one guy with big eyebrows is talking about a dream he had of his friend and that there's a man behind the dumpster that's controlling everything. Well, when he finds the man behind the dumpster, that just indicates that the big-eyebrowed man has killed his friend that he saw in the dream. This of course parallels the whole theme of what happened in Mullholland Dr. Lynch movies are very intelligent actually. He's even said on an interview on the Blue Velvet DVD that he wants to make movies that REQUIRE repeated viewings. Quite clever of him. Now, if you want to see a Lynch movie that'll really twist your brain check out Lost Highway.