Dream/Nightmare: A Lynchian view of Hollywood

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2002)

Mullholland Drive is an utterly spellbinding experience that leaves one gasping for answers. From the word go, a colliding miriad of dancing strangers, the viewer is proppelled into a confusing and haunting world. Everything in the movie seeths with danger and it seems as if anything could jump out and bite you. While the movie is at first confronting and confusing,reflection after the fact ( saw this movie two days ago), reveals more and more insight into Lynch's vision of the hollywood dreamworld. Love, sex, violence and humour are all used with skillful moderation. The one detracting feature is the occasional silliness, it does seem at times to be wierd for wierdness' sake, although for the most part it is a vastly and hauntingly entertaining cinematic experience
8/10