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Mulholland Drive 

Directed by David Lynch

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Mulholland Drive is a movie that works clearly with its after-effect. David Lynch's newfangled narrative style would keep you up, thinking about the movie the whole night. The director's emphasis on the experience rather than the structure creates a nail-biting status quo. The best part is that the film does not spoon-feed any of its plots. It's just like a dream, we feel it but don't reason it. This film does not give you straight answers, it teases you to find yourself.  A strange feeling yet intriguing is what seemed like David Lynch wanted to sell us through Mulholland Drive. As an aspiring filmmaker, I have got a lot of stress about how important a script is for a movie. But then, David Lynch's style and vision are giving me second thoughts. Imagining how someone would agree on making a David Lynch movie just based on the script seems so near to impossible. 

Most of the debate on whether cinema is an art form or science settles down here because Mulhollands drive nowhere attempts to satisfy your logical reasoning however it does reverb your emotional state of mind. A major influence on me was the sound design of the movie. Since it had the most unstructured narrative, the sound design gave huge leverage at holding me in the mood. For me, the choice of music and sound did work out well.

There were multiple motifs through characters that David Lynch wanted to show off, and also a satire on Hollywood's working style. This might have David's purposes but I couldn't relate to it much. Although getting acquainted with it left a neutral perspective. The first one hour was quite tricky, as it gave me anthology vibes, I had to recheck the genre. Not to mention the inconvenience as the movie progresses,  it made it so difficult to guess what would happen next. All this confusion, illusion, and inconvenience show signs of justification in the last 30 mins of the movie, but even that is frustratingly incomplete. In the end, it's an adventure, you experience or you don't. 

My small illustration of the movie