I'm Anna. I'm 18.
I listen to psychedelic rock, grunge, indie. I like cult classic/art house film.
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I'm Anna. I'm 18.
I listen to psychedelic rock, grunge, indie. I like cult classic/art house film.
I'm into fashion.
I love writing.
I'm off to Leeds Uni to study Film Production this year.
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Member since:20.06.2009
Reviews:13
Auteur director David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is undoubtedly his magnum opus. It is a post- modern take on the theme of schizophrenia, murderous passion and the American Dream. Challenging and enigmatic, it is not for fans of 'rom coms' and 'chick flicks'. Naomi Watts plays a budding actress named Betty who arrives in Hollywood in search for a career in acting, but soon finds herself lost in road accident escapee Rita (Laura Elena Harring)'s dark quest to unravel the amnesia- induced mystery of who she really is. Riddled with clues and puzzles, Mulholland Drive is not just a film, it is a confusingly beautiful game that you, the audience, has to play in order to find out the truth. Rita and Betty's friendship develops into something more, whether it is love or lust it is not clear. A sinister bout of role reversal takes place when 'Rita' turns into actress-of-the-moment Camilla, and 'Betty' turns into Camilla's lover 'Diane'.
It is at that stage where it gets seriously psychotic...
Frighteningly dark figures appear throughout, to give warning and introduce new themes, such as a monotonous cowboy (which I found really disturbing), a tramp that lives behind a branch of 'Winkie's', a clairvoyant madwoman, and a performer at the fictional Club Silencio. The Club Silencio scene is one of the most ingenious scenes of the film. A female opera performer sings over a tape recording, and the fact that Betty and Rita are so moved by this haunting performance to the point of them crying is symbolic of how people, specifically in Hollywood can care so much about materialistic aspects of life that are superficial and fabricated.
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