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Mulholland Drive

If you want to know all about the hell of Hollywood, I think you could watch a simpler film than this one. This reviewer says it was well told and worth watching.

If you’ve never seen anything by filmmaker, David Lynch, I’d recommend this film as the first to watch. It’s fascinating to this reviewer. Hold onto your hats, people, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

The two main characters are Betty (Naomi Watts) and Rita (Laura Elena Harring). Betty arrives in Hollywood with a fresh new face and Pollyanna attitude to be a success as a movie star. She borrows her absent aunt’s apartment and discovers Rita in the shower, a beautiful exotic woman who has lost her memory. The only thing Rita remembers is a car accident - that's the first mystery. Betty and Rita become friends -- thanks to Betty who decides to help Rita find out who she is. Keep an open mind and try to relax as scene after scene puzzles you. You’ll be exasperated at one point and think you don’t want to watch this DVD. You think you've been cheated, but you don't turn it off because you are hooked. In more ways than one, this is a mystery. It’s up to you to figure out how the puzzle fits together. There aren’t any red herrings in Mulholland Drive, a trick in mysteries to throw you off the scent. Unless you want to make one up for yourself. The last thing needed is a red herring clue. There’s characters, scenes and unanswered questions that suffice.

Two and a half hours later, I still hadn’t figured it out, but I was intrigued. The next day I was still thinking about the story. That’s a lot more than I did for a few other mysteries.

This fast-moving story was an adventure and I didn’t even have to leave my living room. Keep your eye on the bouncing ball, ladies and gentleman. It’s possible to lose track of who’s who when you are shown another scene, but not likely. I kept looking for more clues, expecting surprises at every move from every character.

A director character (Justin Theroux) is funny; kind of a comedy relief. He has to take in an ambitious actress to star in his movie because that’s what the old gangsters want. He’s in a lot of scenes and is connected to Betty and Rita. He’s a cuckolded husband and the scene with his wife and his lover is like something from Laurel and Hardy.

A hitman is hired to kill some characters and he’s so lousy at his job that he is more like an accident waiting to happen. It’s funny too. Coco (Ann Miller) is the landlady at the apartment where Betty’s aunt lives. She gives her own portrayal of an old show biz actress with a wise attitude and a kind heart. There’s a blue box and a blue key to open it, but until nearly halfway through the story, you wonder and then nearly forget about that little blue key lying on the coffee table. That key was originally found, by Rita, at the bottom of a purse full of cash, but she didn’t know anything more about it than the viewer.

The mysterious blue box is finally opened by the blue key. You see the contents of the box – a black void and there’s a sound like you’ve slurped through the straw when there’s nothing left at the bottom of the glass, but there is something. It's the same story from a different view with the same people loosely connected to the previous story.

In my research, I found that David Lynch had originally made this film for a series, but it never happened so he put it together and called it Mulholland Drive.

A recommended "must see" by this reviewer.

Written by: Judith Fox

Reviewers Rating: 9
Reader's Rating: 7.00
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