Mulholland Drive (2001)
It is common knowledge that David Lynch’s movies are really strange, but Mulholland Drive is considered by many the apex of his unbridled surrealism.
Directed and produced by himself, the work was initially a TV series, however the project was abandoned by ABC Network and Lynch decided to make it a movie. In its first year of release, the film received many positive and negative criticism, earned about $ 7.2 million US dollars and received Oscar nominations and Golden Globe awards.
Mulholland Drive tells the story of a mysterious woman (Laura Harring) who suffers a mysterious car accident on Mulholland Drive Avenue and after that gets amnesia. She breaks into an apartment that is now occupied by Betty (Naomi Watts), an aspiring actress newly arrived in Los Angeles that will live in it, who the owner is her aunt that is traveling. Betty tries to help the brunette (that when see a poster of Rita Hayworth, presented herself as Rita) to regain consciousness. At the same time, Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux), a film-maker, is obligated by Italian gangsters to credit Camila Rhodes in his new production.
Up to this point the story is "easy" to follow, but we suddenly realize a turnaround. It’s like if the own director was tired of the path his story was taking. Characters change their names, occupation, identity; but even so, using all the emotional sensitivity, we can see that the history's main essence remains unchanged. It is as if the whole movie was a dream and in a given moment you wake up and realize that reality is not easy to be faced and accepted.
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