Lost hopes and dreams in a twisted surreal puzzle

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2010)

I won't try to explain this movie, the plot or the characters, because the two most voted reviews here on IMDb do it very well and there're a few more sites on the Internet that also do it. All I can say is that the very first time I watched it, back in 2002, I didn't understand the plot, like anyone else (I suppose!), and I just start realizing it for myself when I watched it again today, passed all these years, for the third time. My conclusions were very close to the reviews mentioned. I just failed in a few details, which have little importance. What matters is that I came very close to the most important subject of the film: It's all about frustration, anger, jealousy, sadness, remorse and lost hopes and dreams all together to end in one single word: suicide! That's what really resumes MULHOLLAND DRIVE!
Of course the plot is twisted, allegoric, symbolic and at parts even poetic and dreamful, but it's all part of the very particular and peculiar David Lynch's cinematographic universe. David Lynch's movies are full of symbols, enigmatic characters, and weird scenarios, like it all was just a part of a surreal puzzle. That's what I most love in this director and what makes me say with pride that he's my favorite director! Of all types of cinema! And what I really love about him and his movies is all this iconography and the visual elements and/or characters he creates to represent all the evilness, dirty and perversity that dwells in the Human mind, or to be more generic, in the Human condition In Mulholand Drive, these elements and characters are present, as they were in BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS, or LOST HIGHWAY, some of them change, some of them are the same The enigmatic red curtains or the mysterious little man are two examples often used by Lynch. The "Cabin of Fire" in LOST HIGHWAY or the "Club Silencio" here on MULHOLLAND DRIVE are two more examples of these Lynchian allegories.
The best two scenes in this film to me are precisely the minutes of "illusion" both girls pass inside the weird "Club Silencio", and the very last scene of the movie when those little old man and woman quickly transform themselves into those creepy monsters of guilt, remorse and despair that lead the main character to commit suicide! That last scene is sinister and weird! And even today when I watched it again, perfectly knowing what would happen, I couldn't avoid this chilling impact!
In MULHOLLAND DRIVE I think David Lynch creates something that we can really call a masterpiece, because it has plenty of elements and ideas of his previous movies, as said, but it's all done in such incredible puzzle that turns it very difficult to figure it all out at the very first look.
It's a 10/10 of course!