I know you are saying you don’t want to watch a video essay about the movie to understand the movie, I hate that kind of thing too, a filmmaker should be able to tell their story with what they present to us on the screen without us having to do extra homework, BUT… do a search on KZbin for @LondonCityGirl’s explanation of the movie, it is fairly short and very well done. You guys are on the right track for the most part with what is going, she just lays it out very clearly and concisely.

I have seen this movie a ton of times and it always chokes me up

Y’all should do some more Lynch and some Cronenburg!

The whole movie you are given information, it's just soooo weird :D but for example, information #1 - the dance. Information #2 - the pilloooooowwww :D it is super-tricky, there's tons of vids, and theres layers and layers! It doesn't have to be that complicated though, if you rewatch, and remember a couple of things; the characters arent really characters per se, they are often concepts - for example, Betty can be a "Hollywood dream" for example - dream is another character, and so on. It's symbolic or allegoric more than a literal story about stuff happening to people. One in depth-analysis suggests the movie is about sexual pressure in the Hollywood industry, the "casting couch", and that Brunette represents the couch, the sexual abuse she must go through, as a gate or a key; Betty is the hopeful; she goes through the sexual ritual, but she still doesn't get the movie part, she's young and washed up. She is used, chewed, and spat out.

Guys....the point in it is that Hollywood is a tough place that chew women up and spits them back out. In the dream Diane gets all the things she thought she wanted. Kesher gets kicked out of his house rather than his wife losing the house. Kesher loses control of his own movie rather than it being a success. Kesher wants Diane/Betty but she can't have the role because of "outside control". She wanted the part but didn't get it so she needed to rationalize why in her dream. In her dream Camilla loved her. The cowboy is a manifestation of Diane's lack of control. The espresso guy is a manifestation of her "distaste" of the way Hollywood works. Her dream makes the hitman a bumbling idiot who botched the hit. The old people represent the people she promised that she would be successful. And the guy behind winkies is despair and failure. The last third of the movie shows you what happened in reality to make her do what she did. I don't have it all figured out but this is the best I can do. I hope this helps.

I love watching people's reactions to the first viewing of Mulholland Drive. It's so funny that no one understands anything, sorry)

This movie is like rocky 4 and karate kid mixed together and I love it lol 😂

React to the fantastic Mr.Fox please!!!!!!! It is worth it

Blooper Reels stopped being added to the ends of films when DVDs allowed for them to be their own feature along with Deleted Scenes, Behind The Scenes, and the like creating more to charge for.

Dang no Alien hats lol

Here are some clues. 1st half is a dream (Betty/Diane). In that dream, roles are reversed and placed on different people, some she just happen to see at crucial moments of her life: Winkies ( dream guy) She sees him when she commits to hiring the hit man. Castigliani Brother (espresso guy) She sees him when Adam and Rita/Camilla announce their engagement thus her world is collapsing. That is why the taste of espresso makes him sick at the meeting. Espresso is forever ruined by this moment. Kind of like how a past relationship might have "ruined" a song/movie because it reminds you of that person and you can't listen or watch those songs/movies. She also happens to catch a glimpse of the cowboy at that time as well. The cowboy is sort of a moral compass. "You'll see me once if you did good. you'll see me two more times if you did bad." We see him twice and betty lying in bed are 2 different versions: 1) alive 2) deceased (she did bad) The Adam/This is the girl storyline is Betty/Diane's subconscious creating a scenario of a deep, Hollywood conspiracy to give the role (she would kill for) to another actress (Camilla) In her dream logic, the girl kissing Camilla/Rita at the party was given the name of Camilla. (We learn Camilla won the part and Diane/Betty didn't and she got a minor role). The hitman storyline is probably her subconscious telling her that maybe this hit man is not good at his job and it will not go according to plan. The blue key is his way of communicating to Diane/Betty that the job is done. In her dream, the blue key unlocks a sort of Pandora's Box and that's when the evil truth comes out. Club Silencio is like a limbo state between fantasy and reality. The old people might represent those who believed in her at the beginning of her career and also a reminder of her shortcomings of her career as an actress. The homeless woman is the embodiment of failure and the very bottom. She's located behind Winkies where the hit on Camilla/Rita was placed.

Way too over the top. I get that reactors need to play it up to the camera, but you guys go overboard. It’s almost like professional wrestling, that kayfabe feel. Not for me.

If bad guys surrender and crime is no more, couldn't Batman at least be on the lookout for people who need saving from any danger of a sort?

9:48 Dick Grayson: "My name's Richard Grayson, but the kids at the orphanage call me Dick." Bruce Wayne: "Kids can be cruel." Me: 😒 "Not THAT kind of dick."

10:43 both of you went 😱😱

I watched this movie as a young teen cos someone said if I liked The Lord of the Rings, I'd like and I was NOT prepared, lemme tell you. But I survived, and became a lifelong fan of Del Toro's work to boot.

Ants wouldn't survive if they were bigger. They would suffocate and be crushed under their own exoskeleton. Thank goodness.

21:35 27:21 people's reaction to Carl are always golden. 😂

Try 'Wild At Heart" and "Lost Highway", they are far better Lynch films.

This is such a great movie. Watch again and you'll see even more gems hidden in there.

That scene when Lotso abandoned Woody and the gang to die shows his true colors! It shows us what kind of person he really is! The furnace scene made him more menacing!

And they never made a 4th movie! EVER!!!!! Three was all they made!

You need to watch it again. Think of it like this: The real story is about Diane and Camilla, and work from there. What actually happened, already happened. Think about falling into the pillow at the beginning.

Maybe youre just Proudly Stupid??

Do The Hot Chick!

I love that one of you was laughing like hell when she fell out of the coffin and the other one looked mortified

Personally I wasn't a fan of the Easter bunny as Australian, since rabbits were brought to Australia by colonialists. The Aussies do have the Easter bilby though, and bilbies are cute af.

Fun fact Jackie Chan was going to play Simon Phoenix He declined because he didn't wanna play the villain

Please react to Return of the Dragon (aka The Way of the Dragon) with Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee fighting.

One of my faves

Dude I keep telling you, my mom's dead. If you want to threaten her with a good time, you'll have to do it in the lake she's scattered in.

Omfg holy shit yes. This could not have been more unexpected nor timely. One of the best movies of all time, you have to rewatch it at least once to be like "Oh shit I get it daaamn". Edit: This movie does not work if you're commenting every five seconds. It's all about mood and tension, it doesn't work with jokes. My bad.

31:37 He didn’t just pass away, he died in a car accident… ironic that a movie called CARS gets dedicated to him, but I’m pretty sure it was the last film he worked on & the first to come out since his passing so it does make sense.

Awesome

2:40 won't really get any better throughout the movie as well... 😅

Man...the nostalgia work out like never before...even watching this guys reaction made me tears up

Interesting fact, Sylvester Stallone was supposed to play in Beverly hills cop, It was supposed to be very dark so they decided to go with Eddie Murphy and that's Sylvester Stallone created Cobra so you see a lot of Sylvester Stallone Rambo references in this movie and that's why

Remains of the day at 10:00 has to be my favorite song in this movie, I don't know how Danny Elfman comes up with these songs but he's a musical genius in my opinion!

In the intro Diane is winning a dancing contest. Then you see her perspective as she lays down on a pillow to take a nap. The first 2 thirds of the movie are Diane's dream. The last third is reality. She couldn't live with herself after having Camilla killed. I have to say, you guys threw yourself into the Lynch deep end. Probably should have started out with Blue Velvet.

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Lynch, to me, is more about expressing emotion on film via surrealism rather than making stories. Like, it is more about expression than story. When I first saw this in the theater, halfway through I realized that the story wasn't important, it was the experience of the film that was important and it clicked for me. BUT, people have tried to explain it: basically Diane hires a hit on her lover, regrets it, then creates a fantasy where it doesn't happen and Diane gets everything she wants, only to wake up to reality and kill herself. Or Hollywood is a machine that grinds people up.

We need this movie to be in #TheCocoaCouch

Toy Story 4 is only enjoyable if you like character assassinations & badly written sympathetic villains.

The little boy with the voo doo doll is joe king,stephan king,s son.

I like tourvreactions to'"creepshow' .try 'part2" only three atories in this one.was,nt as giod as "part 1".

7:38 - ‘Buster got old!’ Just stab me in the heart next time, okay?? Because it was not prepared for those words.

This was a'wink'to"tales from the crypt"comics.i love it.🎉❤

You should react to do movie Wonder Woman it’s really good action expand your movie genre it a amazing movie

This is my favorite David Lynch film (followed by "The Elephant Man"). One of the reasons I love it, is that it challenges you. It requires multiple viewings, because NO ONE will get what's going on in the first viewing. Even the liner notes on the DVD give you clues... - Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: at least two clues are revealed before the credits. - Notice appearances of the red lampshade. - Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again? - An accident is a terrible event... notice the location of the accident. - Who gives a key, and why? - Notice the robe, the ashtray, the coffee cup. - What is felt, realized and gathered at the club Silencio? - Did talent alone help Camilla? - Notice the occurrences surrounding the man behind Winkies. - Where is Aunt Ruth?

IMO, the people who chose Mulholland Drive really screwed you over. The first season of Twin Peaks would have been a better introduction to David Lynch. It is a LOT easier to digest.