Brilliant art from a master

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2008)

The movie it most makes me think of is "3 Women" by that other cinematic master, ( dearly departed ) Robert Altman.
One occurs throughout old Hollywood, in the shop-worn jewel- toned culturally recycled 'old' downtown and in the hills of the more established privileged, elite Los Angeles; the other in the hinterlands of the suburban/rural California desert. Both hail from a culturally complex southwest, specific to or influenced by a uniquely L.A./Southern California/southwest USA ethos. These movies couldn't have happened anywhere else or they would be different films entirely.
This is the kind of movie that cannot simply be spoonfed to one like 99.9% of movies and other commercial media. It has to be experienced on many levels simultaneously, interwoven with mystical spiritualism, magical realism and ever-changing mythologies -- and yet to experience it means that it goes far beyond those limiting attempts to describe this masterpiece.
Mulholland Drive is mystical and magical, spiritual and physical, intellectual, emotional, soulful, visual ... meta-sensory, extra-sensory and ultra-sensory -- it simply cannot be categorized or dissected nor completely understood.
All I can do is thank David Lynch and his ensemble of creative souls for something that should continue to be seen, studied, experienced forever.