Take a trip into the dark world that is
mulholland drive, the place we regularly see as a moviestars paradise, buy a house there and be caught exchanging pleasenteries next
morning with Jack Nicholson as you collect the morning paper. However this trip to mulholland
drive is like nothing we have seen before, its dark, its thrilling, nobody is who they seem to be and yet we can not look away; prepare to give your brain a work out as you stare intently at your screen and are introduced to a variety of interesting quirky characters that each form a clue to the mystery of this puzzle that is mulholland drive.
We meet the fresh faced cheerfull canadian Betty Elms, on her way to the big city to get recognised in the tough world that is acting. Seems her aunt is something big in the
movie world and Betty wants to folllow suit,
shes doing so by staying in her aunts house for the summer; thats a good start if you ask me.
Our heroine has a wander around her new place of residence, when shes greeted by a rather welcome guest in her eyes, and indeed the audiences. The dashing beauty, known only as
Rita and mistaken by the sweet Betty as a friend of her aunts who has falling on bad times and now seems to be suffering with a rather cronic form of amnesia. The two women quickly forge a friendship; with Betty doing all she can to help the poor Rita to find out who she really is, and yes this is only beginning and the questions keep coming; who is rita? why rita? who the hell’s that cowboy, do his criptic clues mean something or are they just the works of past midnight ramblings we have all experienced with that quirky neighbour next door?; and what the hell is with that mad old
woman who bangs on Bettys door at all hours of the night?.
We move on in the masterfull mind of David Lynch. Directors, you’re no were unless you got one on your side in Hollywood; seems a certain director has his eye on our inceasingly close Betty and Rita, introducing Adam Kesiher, hollywoods hottie director, takes so much as a rather intense stare into the eyes of increasingly erratic Betty, and the audience once again is asking that familiar question..whats up with that?
No doubt marking of important plot points in there notebooks they keep beside the couch next to the popcorn, don’t mock it will all add up in the end when your trying to bring together pieces of the movie to crack the ending.
Now we have Adam, Betty and Rita, all tied together, and like the old saying goes sex changes things, and it certainly does here. Seems our Betty wake up the morning after and everything has changed, shes turned into this angry, jealous stressed and edgy woman who seems like she could snap at any moment, and often does. Adam is going around with this smug look on his face as he celebrates been with Camilla, the woman formanly known as Rita, and yes, the audience is once again puzzled, throw in a blue box, crying women, nightmares, crazy woman, keys, money, car accidents, changing names, unrequited love and you got yourself a Saturday night in any bar in town but in this case you got yourself a Hollywood movie, one that should not be missed under any circumstances, so give your brain a workout and enjoy the best that Hollywood has to offer.
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