Each time you watch it, it gets better and better!
@beammeupscottie70424 жыл бұрын
Mulholland Drive was one of my favorite movies. I love the story's many twists and somewhat pleasurable confusion. I've watched this movie many, many times and everytime I learn something I didn't know before. Great film! Can't wait for Netflix to bring it back.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
I love this film so much too! Every time I watch it gets better and better. I’m such a huge David Lynch fan. Pleasurable confusion is such a great way to phrase it ha ha! I’m thinking about doing a review of The Grandmother soon. I’d love to do one on Wild at Heart and Fire Walk with Me, too.
@beammeupscottie70424 жыл бұрын
@@PopCultureFridays #Subbed to your channel.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! It’s very much appreciated and glad to connect with you!!
@tomrao44 жыл бұрын
Interesting take. I definitely agree with most of it. I believe it was a dream in part A. I say that because you can see a head hit a red pillow in the beginning of the movie. I think the dead body she sees might be a premonition of her own suicide. And she wakes up because camilla, rather her own self was close to solving the puzzle. But you gotta love a movie that has this many theories behind it. Lynch is the man!!
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting!! I like what you’re saying... premonition, yes! Oh yes you gotta love this movie and Lynch is definitely the man. I really wanna delve into his works more and more
@sarahg35002 жыл бұрын
Betty is Elisabeth, Rita is Margaret
@premanadi2 ай бұрын
Yes, part A is Diane's fantasy of how she wished her life had been - but it is what flashes through her dying brain just after she has shot herself. That's why there are ghostly images of it through the smoke from the gun at the very end of the film.
@PopCultureFridays2 ай бұрын
Very interesting and that makes sense too
@SuperAlfern2 ай бұрын
The crazy editing leading up to the car scene really freaked me out. Ive had nightmares with the exact same vibe.
@PopCultureFridays2 ай бұрын
I could totally see that. It’s an intense moment.
@drbassface Жыл бұрын
Good catch of the blue box in the gun drawer.
@PopCultureFridays Жыл бұрын
Thank you! And thank you for watching! Sorry for the late response, life’s been keeping me busy! Have a great day
@RawOlympia3 жыл бұрын
thnx, only just saw it for the first time, had PTSD for decades from seeing eraserhead in NYc. what a great vid!
@PopCultureFridays3 жыл бұрын
Eraserhead is such a great movie and I can definitely see it affecting you cuz it’s a creepy one! Thanks for watching and sharing!
@mitch890143 жыл бұрын
Lunch said the clues are all there, main clue, first scene, the pillow, dream
@samantha53074 жыл бұрын
...Another extraction from Lynch’s films are the recurring themes. The key is present throughout the movie from the initial stages of the aunt leaving and in relationship to the box; the corollary of the key as the opening of the door of perception, intuited by Huxley, and that realities are existing simultaneously and it is the unique journey we travel as stages of awareness and enlightenment to a transcendental state to consciousness.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. I love what you’re saying!
@samantha53074 жыл бұрын
Pop Culture Fridays Thank you. I have a spiritual devotion to the beauty and mystery of his films.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Me too. I feel like David Lynch is operating on a higher level of artistic consciousness perhaps and I feel like devoting myself to his work is bringing me into an interesting realm of awareness and creativity.
@samantha53074 жыл бұрын
@@PopCultureFridays I agree. His movies, open for interpretation, evoke a transcendental state in the creative and intuitive recesses of the brain; a natural drug of unknown voyage. There is also a nostalgic quality to the atmosphere of Hollywood, screen siren and vintage ideals evident in the body of his work. His pieces are visually stunning in their ascetic and provoke a sense of longing through charming surroundings and color. I look forward to more of your insights into his cinematography and esoteric interpretations.
@mariorossi72254 жыл бұрын
good point
@melissae1116 Жыл бұрын
Good analysis. I need to watch this movie again.
@PopCultureFridays Жыл бұрын
Hey thank you! Sorry for the late reply. Yes you should it gets better each time I think!
@gregisom454 жыл бұрын
Yes, women can have a place, then suddenly disappear and not notice that they were ever there.
@pauldacon8284 жыл бұрын
Mulholland Drive is a high art reimagining of Hellraiser. David Lynch took Clive Barker's idea, elevated it to a new level and exchanged visceral gore for suffocating malaise. Camila sold her soul to Satan for success and fame, then Diane is forced to watch as the woman she loves outgrows her and leaves her behind. Unable to cope with her own inability to match Camila's success and her inability to accept the loss of her lover, she hires a hitman to kill Camilla out of jealousy. (I'm fairly certain that even the scene with the hitman is just another version of someone selling their soul to Satan. I think that the hitman is just a metaphor for Diane selling her soul for revenge against Camilla and how Satan collected both of their souls.) Then her own guilt makes her turn to drug abuse and eventually commits suicide. The story is really about Camilla even though we see it mostly from Diane's perspective, because we are seeing the effect that Camilla's choice to sell her soul has on Diane, who Satan uses to kill and collect Camila's soul. This is evidenced multiple times when we see Satan wearing the disguise of others and pushing the events to occur in a certain preordained manner. We also see Satan putting Diane and Camilla on paths that will force them to intersect. The movie is really just a collection of vignettes showing how Satan manipulated people into selling their souls and then put them into positions that would give them a Bizarro form of what they wanted and then kill them and collect their souls. The movie really is just a high art transmutation of the lament configuration from Hellraiser.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Wow interesting! It’s been along time since I’ve seen Hellraiser, so now I’m gonna have to go back and watch this. Thanks for the thought! I’m excited to watch HR again!
@AntonyRG13 ай бұрын
WRONG. It is not Diane Selwyn's dream. The person who is dreaming is Camilla Rhodes. It is Camilla who commits the murder of the young blonde actress who Camilla believes stole her part in the film, and stole her director boyfriend. The person who is dreaming speaks Spanish, and listens intently to an Hispanic singer. In the dream, Diane represents the young blonde girl who is murdered. It is Diane Selwyn who disappears in the scene where Camilla falls into the blue box. Camilla Rhodes perfectly represents the Hollywood ideal of the murderous femme fatale. We even see Camilla decomposing on the bed.
@nettieforce14 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the nice walk. Wish more vids were outside. 😉
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I love recording outside for a number of reasons. It just feels better but also the lighting is naturally better I think
@gohnjoodman25464 жыл бұрын
Two requests, use a tripod and make more film analysis videos of David Lynch movies cause this was very interesting.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Hey thx!! I really appreciate all of that. I can’t get enough of David Lynch films... I think it doesn’t take much for me to dive in even more! The Grandmother is one of my faves ever!
@samantha53074 жыл бұрын
Parallel dimensions of fantasy and reality converge to an infinite void suggestive of the release from the cycle continuum of the karmic wheel and ultimately freedom from despair and suffering as its release from the ego of consciousness, Moksha.
@mariorossi72254 жыл бұрын
yes..
@juliecarss6524 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Agree with the delusional Betty having her best life & then waking to her real life as Diane & being so depressed as her life is terrible.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! So many wonderful threads going on.. and great acting, too, of course. Sometimes I wonder how virtual reality would resonate in a storyline like this: ppl creating delusional/reality timelines based on their wants and needs.
@sarahg35002 жыл бұрын
Blue box, blue key, blue blood
@sarahg35002 жыл бұрын
The old lady looks a lot like a royal figure did at the time. Two women competing for a leading role named Camilla and Diana are another clue. It might be a true story put in reverse.
@PopCultureFridays2 жыл бұрын
Oh my God I love that idea! Wow. That really gets me thinking. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing that!
@ivandesantis8584 ай бұрын
Yeah but the part A part B theory doesn't really make sense because if part A is a delusion/fantasy then betty/Diane never had a relationship with Camilla/Rita to be hurt by so she wouldn't need to arrange a hit to exact some type of retribution. The two distinct stories multi verse theory is mind blowing. I like that . In how I look at it the dark side of Hollywood and how it breaks people feels like it needs to exist to keep the machine of the business working
@sarahg35002 жыл бұрын
Diana is waking up and this is the situation after her divorce from this big fish, this guy that is getting engaged to be the husband of Camilla!!!
@mariorossi72254 жыл бұрын
did'nt you notice kamila walks on sunset boulevard (Billy Wilder-1950) after the car crash ? so, it's a dead one who tells the story...the entire movie it's the diane's pre-death dream Diane is dead before the start of the film... regard part a and part b i'm not with you..i prefer to see the movie like a tre levels (layers maybe it's better but my english it's very poor for subtle arguments) vision..from inconscious from subconscious and from reality (?)..this 3 layers sometimes overlap each others, expecially in the kamila (a diane's proiection..) experience. Anytime you enter a theatre in a lynch movie you enter in the deep of the mind of the character... mulholland drive take the feelings and the atmospheres of both eraserhead and lost highways at the highest artistic level possible sorry for my terrific english :-) p.s.: look at the cowboy in mulholland drive and the guy in the desert cab in lost higway...they are the same thing..time to weak up...
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
I love it, very interesting! I really like the idea of these three layers overlapping. The next time I watch it I’m gonna think about your theory. :)
@RawOlympia3 жыл бұрын
is that why she is seen but not mentioned by the older Hollywood actress at the apartment who sees her barely and says nothing?
@mariorossi72253 жыл бұрын
@@RawOlympia yes. and the same applies at a resident of the resort in a later moment...if i remember well
@Artist_Sir Жыл бұрын
Please review marathi language movie - Sairat
@PopCultureFridays Жыл бұрын
Hey, I’ll check that out for sure! Thank you for sharing!
@TrasteIAm4 жыл бұрын
Davids very intention was to not leave anything to explanation.
@PopCultureFridays4 жыл бұрын
I love that his films are so brilliant that they almost simultaneously defy explanation and invite almost all possibilities
@AntonyRG13 ай бұрын
It is not Diane Selwyn's dream. The person who is dreaming is Camilla Rhodes. It is Camilla who commits the murder of the young blonde actress who Camilla believes stole her part in the film, and stole her director boyfriend. The person who is dreaming speaks Spanish, and listens intently to an Hispanic singer. In the dream, Diane represents the young blonde girl who is murdered. It is Diane Selwyn who disappears in the scene where Camilla falls into the blue box. Camilla Rhodes perfectly represents the Hollywood ideal of the murderous femme fatale. We even see Camilla decomposing on the bed.
@PopCultureFridays2 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I’ll go back and rewatch this.