When I was sitting there watching David Lynch's Mulholland Drive I was totally confused for the first two hours of the film as it seemed to just drag into nothing with plots that ran left and right but never meeting in the middle. It's the last twenty minutes of the film that save it and give the film what can be described as an almost linear storyline.The plot involves "Rita" (Laura Herring) being involved in a car accident on Mulholland Drive and losing her memory. She stumbles into the life of Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) an aspiring actress living in her aunts apartment. The most basic premise of the film is that it's about the quest of these two women to figure out who "Rita" is. There are additional plots intertwines with this main narrative, such as Justin Theroux's character having the ultimate bad day.
But there's more to it than that.
That's what beautiful about it. Lynch has practically made a film that you have to determine what the hell it's about. What balls! How dare he make his audience think about what they just saw. This is one of the reasons why I really got the movie in the last twenty minutes. He explains it. Sort of.
So if you're into movies where you'll say "What the fuck?!?!" for two hours this is the film for you. It's a two and a half hour riddle that explodes in the end.
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