When I saw this thread I was terrified that it was going to be a bunch of people ripping on a movie that they were too dumb to understand...I stand corrected. And I'm glad to do so. Mulholland Drive is a great movie, Lynch's best since Blue Velvet (though The Straight Story comes awfully close). One of the things that's so great about it is that it demands an interpretation on the part of the viewer. You can't sit there and simply watch it--you have to attempt to make sense out of it, which I think is the purpose of a lot of great art. Everyone below (especially CSfilm) offers a lot of great strategies for watching this movie, so sit back and let it fuck with your head for a while, then try to explain what you've just seen. It's a movie that makes you work as much as it does, which I love.
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