Mulholland Drive is a masterpiece: my personal interpretation and thoughts!

Rating: 10/10 (26 September 2015)

This is a movie that I didn't understand at first sight. I needed to put all the pieces together in order to see it as the masterpiece that it is! It seems very chaotic, but it's logical. In order to understand it, you should pay attention to every detail, even before the movie starts, in the head titles! It's like a fight between Diane and her subconsciousness! She wants to forget, to cancel everything, so she forgets, and she's afraid to remember! It is built with either elements of this inner fight or random people seen elsewhere, just like a real dream is! And let's talk about Naomi Watts: she is great! I would totally put her in my "The 50 of the Most Beautiful Actresses"! Thanks to her, you can perceive the struggle, feel the pain! From now on there will be spoilers, so if you haven't seen the movie yet, don't go further. The first three quarters of the movie are all a dream! And a dream doesn't follow the rules of logic, but it's the manifestation of what we truly feel, mixed with random things seen recently and other stuff that we don't understand at all! But you believe that it's the reality, and when the real reality comes, you don't know what to think. Here's what I understood: Diane wants to be an actress, and after her aunt Ruth dies, uses her money to go to Hollywood. Her parents don't believe in her: this explains the final scene where they laugh, and the initial one too at the station. She meets Camilla Rhodes at a casting, which is the real name of Rita, and it's also the name that in the dream is referred to the blonde one, who kisses the real Camilla at a party. Note that "Rita" dresses fake hairs to look like the fake Camilla. Bob, the boss of the casting, in the reality chooses Camilla, but in the dream Betty succeeded. In the dream she is also very good, while Rita is very bad in acting. It sounds like a revenge. The same revenge against Bob, the old man, who is painted like a loser, and the other director. Lynch criticizes Hollywood, which is ruled by references: Camilla gets all her roles because she's going to marry the director. Diane loves Camilla, and discovers this at a party, on Mulholland Drive, and when she goes off the car, the scene is pretty similar with the first one of the dream. Diane is so angry, that asks a bounty killer to kill Camilla, and shows him a photo saying "she is the one" (as the mafia in the dream). Then she gives the killer the money in the purse (remember?). The killer says that she will find a blue key when Camilla is dead (remember?). This scene is set in the same pub where the guy with the black hair tells about his dreams, and where Betty goes with Rita. But the waitress, actually named Betty, is Diane in the dream). I like the scene where Rita wants to sleep, thinking that this will solve all problems. Diane doesn't want to kill her anymore (remember the strange scene, where the man on the wheelchair says "cancel everything"?), but she can't go back. In the head titles you can also see Diane going to sleep, with the same pillow and blanket! Diane hopes that the killer won't be able to do it: in the dream Camilla survives the accident, the killer can't find her and he is goofy, killing three people for a book. The scene at "Silencio" starts to make understand it's a dream! "There is no band, but you can hear it". Diane switched her apartment (number 12 with 17). When they find the dead body, they hear knocking at the door: this sound wakes Diane in the reality. So she wakes up, and finds the blue key. She cannot live anymore remembering that she killed the woman she loved, so decides to kill herself, falling in a similar pose than the dead girl. The homeless is probably the consciousness of what she has done, and the blue box maybe represents her dream. PS: notice that the mafia called a number, and a black phone, near a red lamp rings. It is Diane's phone! It rings when Camilla invites Diane to the party. PPS: the dance shown in the head titles, it's the one in which Diane was good.