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Directed By
David Lynch
Written By:
David Lynch
Cast:
Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Michael J. Anderson, Scott Coffey, Chad Everett, Melissa George, James Karen, Katharine Towne, Angelo Badalamenti, Mark Pellegrino, Lee Grant, Kathrine Forster, Missy Crider, Brent Briscoe, Vincent Castellanos, Michael Des Barres, Robert Forster, Laura Harring, Billy Ray Cyrus, Laura Harring, Lafayette Montgomery, Marcus Graham
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
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Movie Review by Ezra
April 7th, 2007
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Old review of one of my favorite movies of the 21st century:
What can I say about Mulholland Dr.? This movie has everything: comedy, tragedy, joy, despair, beauty and horror all come together with classic David Lynch style.
Like Lynch's best films (Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Eraserhead among them), Mulholland Dr. hits on a subconscious level; something about this film scares the sh*t out of me, but I really can't say just what that something is. Maybe it's the eerie beauty of the cinematography combined with Angelo Badalamenti's haunting score and Lynch's always creepy sound design. Maybe it's the shocking realism of Naomi Watts's performance as a sweet, innocent, young woman gradually driven to madness by the identity-sapping Hollywood system. Maybe it's that creepy motherf*cker that hangs out outside Winky's ("he's the one who's doing it"). But I think that, overall, it's the pervasive atmosphere of inescapable nightmare that Lynch has created in this film, an atmosphere he perfected in the maddening Lost Highway.
Any attempt at plot summary would be erroneous at best, but perhaps the reason the film was acclaimed by so many is that, while it defies any categorization, there is something here that could appeal to anyone ---- if only on a subconscious level that they may not understand. Therefore, I would recommend this film to anyone, but for greater appreciation of the genius that is David Lynch, please view Blue Velvet and Lost Highway first, and in that order.
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