A Dream-like, mystery film about Fate and Love

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2002)

To those film-goers whose like Lynch's movies, Mulholland Dr. will remind them a lot of 'Lost Highway' and will also find the beautiful 'expansion' of what Lynch tried to do in that movie. I personally liked Mulholland Dr. a lot because of its unspeakable 'Lynchian' dark atmosphere, its bursts of psychedelic and visually beautiful scenes and its strongly subjective way of interpreting reality and facts just like in dreams. The plot of the movie is frustrating and incoherent but it gives you some elements and motives to find your own personal logical explanation. I can't say neither that it is totally crazy and illogical nor that there is a fully coherent story with a basic meaning. In art there MUST be things that are not fully interpreted in order to give them your own ego and finally understand them and expand them as freely as possible. Who can say that a painting of Picasso or Dhali or a film of Bunuel is fully and in all of its symbols easily and objectively interpreted? So the meaning that i took from this film is that its basic subject is Fate and how strict and brutal can be done. People confront with it but there is no way out. The world contains no luck but only infinite phenomena that create a stream of necessity that is unaltered. Decisions create a new crevice in time and space and change the future. Parallel worlds follow there own rules but there is a connection in actions and feelings between them just like karma in eastern philosophy that fully depends on other life's actions and feelings. The second meaning is that of love (homosexual or heterosexual) that meets its up and downs, tries to find solutions but ends up with problems that cannot be solved.