Mulholland Drive is a film with a key

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2006)

. That means you need to find the key to open it (its meanings), to read it. At the very beginning we see dancing couple multiplied over one another using so called "blue key", special effect used by TV to place a figure (shot in studio) inside an environment, usually exterior (street, nature etc.). If we take this as a key then we realize that two female characters (Rita and Betty) are actually one and the same woman (a box appears later in the film again with a blue key). Rita/Betty is dying after a car accident and in her last moments she sees her life  her coming to Hollywood as a young aspiring actress and her ending as a hooker. Death keeps appearing in different occasions and shapes. The Silenzio club is a place where Rita/Betty meet death on a stage. The singer is introduced by the announcer saying that the performance will be a"play-back". That means not being "live". That's why Rita/Betty cries. At the end of the movie there is also a very impressive appearance of deathetc. Mulholland Drive is a way to the other world, the world of death (in short).