Mulholland Drive

This is the girl. Mulholland Drive to my interpretation is a piece on the cruelty and almost impossible to succeed film industry. So much so in the middle I reconsidered my passion to be in filmmaking. The performances were so uncanny they felt like there was something inherently wrong. Especially the scene for Camilla Rhodes singing audition, the performance was perfect so perfect unreal the way her eyes stayed open and gazed without intention, her lips were a plastic pink. And after all of that perfection the director with a hesitation and regret in his voice says “this is the girl” out of force before looking back for Betty as if she played some sort of importance without trial. Betty a new actress coming into Hollywood has a loads of supporters and amazing performances to show. But this amount of support seems almost unreal. And then she meets Rita who is more unreal she plays a nearly gullible child, worse than if it was actual amnesia. Every time she thinks she has something it ends up at a dead end and the discovery of identity wasn’t even because of Rita. Touching on that last scene it is haunting to see the way Rita looks around when opening the box its an almost animatronic like movement her eyes wander with no aim. The writing the connection of the play to the entire story itself. There’s no band, There’s no orchestra, but the music plays from everywhere. Not only does it show Betty’s later discovered insanity. But I feel as it is a metaphor for the almost unwaivering gateways people have in the business. That illusion of it all happening over night. And ending the movie back at the play to show this was all a dramatize story of a lunatic. Silencio. Absolutely perfect chef kiss. I liked the use of the dolly pushing in and Pov shots it really made us question whats happening. But not just question the situation whether the situation is real or not. Even at the start Rita was stumbling switching between a steady tracking and Pov which gave this concern of what she is actually feeling or what she is not or if the character has any feelings towards the situation at hand at all. Dianne I take as a failed actress. She was new auditioning for every role. But Camilla got the part for the film directed by Bob then sequentially the film directed by Adam. After the second time of her getting the role ahead of her it was almost like a secret organization was making sure she got the roles with no motives whatsoever. She saw her on screen and wish she could be with her hence the ending and the start. Her lesbian desires turned into an obsession over her. She wanted to be her and be with her all at the same time. At a certain point the cruelty of the movie business drove her to insanity hiring a hitman on the famous actress Camilla. In which she goes home and falls asleep with what is the whole movie apart from what is reality. Everything after the dinner scene (which is not real) I took the film’s surrealism and abstractions as the mind of an insane person driving her to her suicide. What an absolutely perfect movie. Kept me guessing at every turn. Chilling performances with a sinister inauthenticity. Amazing cinematography everything being post modernist cliche adding to that unnerving feeling of inauthenticity until we reach reality then doing a very dramatized style of cinematography to fully show her insanity as the centerpiece. Terrifying sound having me hide under blankets. Plot twists that made me feel like I will never understand this movie and still don’t. Nothing will hit me so emotionally tied, entranced, and fully inside the universe of a film. I also love the movie business preference being like an illuminati organization I thought it was hilarious after and bone chilling during.