what the what?

Rating: 2/10 (8 May 2010)

I've heard it said somewhere that David Lynch doesn't really write stories as much as he write scenes. He admitted to thinking up scenes he thought would be cool and then figuring out how they would fit in later.
This movie is an extraordinarily good example of that. I can accept that the scenes don't really have much to do with each other, but they are presented in a way that makes it seem as though they do. The scene at the silencio, I know they went there to ultimately get the box, but that was like a five minutes scene. Why did we watch that show? What purpose did it serve? While I was watching it, I kept thinking back to Donnie Darko. I didn't leave that movie understanding everything that happened, but I left feeling like there was a deeper meaning that I didn't realize yet. I didn't get that feeling while I was watching Mulholland Drive. I felt like I had just watched stuff happen for two and a half hours. Perhaps each scene was meant to have a deeper meaning. If Lynch writes in scenes and not movies, that's entirely possible. But please, don't bother trying to fit it into a story like these events are in some way related. The Diner Face Nightmare scene near the beginning of the film was a decent scene in it's own right. But I have a problem when the movie insists on saying that the scene is in some way related to everything else happening in the movie.
Someone else on here compared it to a puzzle with missing pieces, I say it's about 5 different puzzles mixed together with half of the pieces missing.