David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, a masterpiece of surrealism and psychological drama, explores the dark underbelly of Hollywood and the fragility of identity.
Life can be a bad dream, can't it? The idea of deeply analyzing dreams and ruminating on their metaphorical context often plays like a pretentious exercise by commentators trying to one-up each other on their film literacy. However, David Lynch has been codifying the evocation of dreams in film and television for decades with an assured control and curiosity that strips away any clichés involved with surrealism.
Like the most profound dreams, Mulholland Drive, which is now considered Lynch's masterpiece, can't be explained in just a few words. The writer-director's 2001 story about denizens living in Hollywood, the land of hopes and dreams, submerging into a nightmarish odyssey, is both a torrid examination of the perils of show business and a sensitive portrait of the loss of identity.Mulholland Drive's impact over 20 years later lingers over the most acclaimed arthouse and independent films of today and for the foreseeable future. Mulholland Drive, which landed at #8 on Sight and Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll, is the rare film from this century recognized as a canonical masterpiece. Most remarkable of all, the film was initially conceived as a television series, but when ABC, the network that aired Twin Peaks, passed on Lynch's bizarre, frequently tangential spelunking into the subconscious, he expanded his TV pilot into a feature and made one of the finest achievements of the art form. Lynch's psychological drama/mystery-thriller chronicles the strange and inexplicable occurrences around the titular Los Angeles street, specifically involving Rita (Laura Harring), whose amnesia caused by a car crash has made her forget her identity, and Betty (Naomi Watts), an effervescent, aspiring actor who befriends Rita and helps her search for answers to her identit
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