What can I say about this film that has not already been said. Actually there's a good chance there is something, as this film just has so much to talk about. Lynch is either a genius or one of the craziest bastards that's ever made a movie.

I am kind of serious when I say I don't know what to talk about. The visuals are stunning. The characters are interesting and captivating. The mystery and drama in the film is so well done in the first half that I was extremely dissapointed in not getting to see any resolution. But of course this film is Lynchian, resolution or normalcy is for suckers. 

I find it counterproductive to mention the quality of writing and acting in all of Lynch's film simply because he doesn't care about them. If someone hasn't already coined this phrase, good acting in a Lynch film is discouraged. Everything is strange, stilted, confusing. Even from the beginning the characters don't really understand one another just as the audience doesn't really understand the film. 

If you know this site you know I try to not spoil anything meaningful from a film's plot or whatever. And I'm keeping to this rule here to my own mental detriment. I would love to dive into the differences between two very distinct parts of the film, where all of the theming and character relationships that we have seen get flipped on their head. I will say this: it is just so darn fun to pick apart this film for all of the little pieces that get blended up from the first half and spread across the second half. It makes the film so much more engaging, and I have never seen this done in a film before to such a benefit.

The thematic content is obviously my favorite part. The female experience in Hollywood is illuminated to an excellent degree here, and this is only one of the many tropes and ideas that are explored in the film. Try the complexities of navigating public love as an actor, or truly knowing oneself. Any one of these themes could have filled an entire movie on their own, and they have! The visual motifs, the scenery and framing, everything is there for a reason. Or maybe not? What is the purpose of any film? Mulholland Drive presents plenty of places, people, and ideas but never wants you to apply logic to any of it.

This is a piece of art no one will understand because it was never meant to be "understood", if something like that could even happen to a film. The purpose of it is the same as modern art: to make you think, to make you feel. And unlike modern art, it actually is fun to look at as well.