Mulholland Drive

Cafe Society
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I’m guessing this has been done before, but hey, what are you gonna do?

I saw this movie this morning, and I really, really loved it. It’s like most of the good things about Lost Highway with the bonus that it’s a lot easier to… well if not to follow then to stay focused on. I think this is simply classic David Lynch, in absolute top form.

El Club Silencio - What a great setting, esp. the blue-haired woman in the balcony, and the fact that the MC is the motel guy (Cookie?)

The Cowboy - Should be silly, totally terrifying. He OOZES power, and you have no idea where or who he could have gotten it from. He is dressed in that fashion, yet has absolutely no hint of a western accent. Excellent character

Adam Casher - Just a cool guy. A much better “dude who’s being messed with” than Bill Pullman’s character in Lost Highway.

Negatives-

The evil camera guy in Lost Highway is MUCH cooler than the Rob Zombie looking dumpster dude in Mulholland Drive. I also think that Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein and Marilyn Manson (their version of “I Put A Spell On You” alone would have made Lost Highway memorable) set the feeling that he’s going for better than 50’s pop music, although I understand his use of the latter in Mulholland Drive.

Overall though, WOW. Great movie, loved it loved it loved it. I just tried to describe the El Club Silencio scene to someone who hasn’t seen the movie and that made me fully realize what a gloriously twisted mind we have among us in David Lynch.

LC

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I really enjoyed that film as well, though I didn’t completely understand it. Club Silencio was definitely one of the more haunting scenes in the movie. For days after that, my boyfriend and I would joke around by repeating that in the middle of the night. Sick, huh?
Parts of the film pissed me off, but the general nature of the film and the startling climax made it worth it. I just wish I could understand ALL of it.

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I am so glad there are other people who like this film!

Mulholland Drive was truly mystifying, the way Lost Highway failed to be. LD uses the implication of supernatural activity in an “A wizard did it” (Simpsons ref.) sort of way, but MD had the paranormal as a theme, not a device.

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I tried to watch this movie last week…I got 45 minutes into it before boredom made me stop watching it. I’ve never liked a Lynch film, why did I even bother?