A wonderful film

Rating: Null/10 (4 March 2002)

Attention: It's better not to read this comment if you still want to watch the film !!!! It wouldn't be that excited. But read it if you're interested in the plot behind the movie. By the way, sorry for eventual mistakes, my native language is not English.
I like "Mulholland drive" because it's a wonderful movie about Hollywood behind the star circus. It tells a (conventional) story about disillusionment in an extraordinary way. For me, there are two levels in the film: one dream-like level, and one "real level". The story (behind the film), in my eyes, seems to be the following one (of course it is more complex than I could describe it here):
A nearly 30 year old women named Diane (=Betty in the nightmare/dream-like passages of the movie) wants to become a movie star in the "city of illusions", L.A. That's why she left the province and her parents who extraordinarily want her to become a movie star - that is what I suggest - (probably the tourists at the beginning of the film and the sneering "dwarfs" - insane without any doubt - at the end of it).
In Hollywood Diane Selwyn/Betty meets Camilla Rhodes(=Rita (Hayworth) in the nightmare/dream passages), a famous actress and she fells in love with her. They have an love affair, so Diane can act in some movies where Camilla plays the main role. Later, Diane bitterly realizes (on a "real" party at Mulholland Drive: Mulholland Drive is also the location and starting point for the nightmarish dream passages) that Camilla only makes a fool of her and doesn't love her. So Diane has to do something.... (The movie will tell you more)
In the end, when curtains in the theater of dreams (called "silencio") are closed, when there are no more illusions that are able to exist, a blue-haired-old spectator indicates (by saying "silencio") that even for the people in the cinema illusions are over.
And look out for the credits to whom "Mulholland Drive" is dedicated: a women who died in the age of 29.