My thoughts on why this film is brilliant.

Rating: 9/10 (11 April 2002)

Mulholland Dr.
There are spoilers in this review. Please do not read it if you have not seen the movie already.
This movie is a true masterpiece; a wonderful work of art. Many people who watch movies like this wonder how someone can see art in chaos. I know I will have to see it many more times to `catch' everything. I think many people get different things from a David Lynch movie. I'd love to share a few of the thoughts I had.
The first time I felt that warm, `ah yes  this is a David Lynch movie' is when the two detectives are talking to each other. If you close your eyes and just listen to their dialogue, you can hear David Lynch's direction. The deliberateness of the words - words like Pearl Earing. No one can make you picture a pearl earing like David Lynch can.
On the flip side;
had he decided to shoot a pearl earing. No words would have been needed.

The Rita character bears a striking resemblance to Sherilyn Fenn, doesn't she?
Did you notice that the Michael Anderson character sat in a room in which the walls were covered with curtains? I couldn't help but think that Lynch just sees him in that room. He sees him in curtained rooms and simply has to put that image on film.
One of the greatest feelings I got during this movie was what seemed to be Mr. Lynch's ability to predict what I was thinking while I was trying to dissect what was going on. I can imagine him laughing about all the thought people try to put into dissecting this movie, but...
Near the end when the character roles have changed and I was trying to decide who Betty really was, I found myself leaning toward her  being a figment of Rita's guilt ridden imagination. I had it all figured out. Betty was really Diane who offed herself because she could not have Camille's love. Camille, guilt ridden, lost it and created Betty to replace Diane, right? `No. no. no,' I thought. `What about the old couple at the airport? And for that matter what the hell is the deal with the old couple at the airport?' Just then they return to the movie. Haunting me the way they are now haunting Diane. I don't know if Lynch did this on purpose or on accident, subconsciously. It doesn't matter. No matter where brilliance like that comes from, it's exactly those types of incidents that make a David Lynch movie a true, masterful work of art. That's the only way I can explain the `why' to the non-believers. That's exactly the type of incident that ties all the Chaos together, somehow.