>Lynch claimed to his death that there was an explanation for all of the events of Mulholland Drivewhy did he keep lying about this? Did he just want people to speculate?
What is confusing or unexplained? It's the same plot as Lost Highway and Silent Hill 2. Blondie killed the other girl because she was jealous and the first two hours of the movie is her in a fugue state imagining a reality where they are still together.
David Lynch died?
>>217475137Yeah but thankfully Brotha Lynch Hung is still alive
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bro is that Sunset BlvdAAAAAAAAAA I'M GOING INSANE
>>217474963>Justin Theroux said of Lynch's feelings on the multiple meanings people perceive in the film, "I think he's genuinely happy for it to mean anything you want. He loves it when people come up with really bizarre interpretations. David works from his subconscious."This was always the best explanation IMO. Lynch made a series of events that almost linked but didn't quite, and let others speculate. So yeah, he lied.
>>217474963AAAAHHHHH I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND IT
there is an explanation. You're just retarded, OP.
>>217474963Well you see, they're all in a fictional world and everything happens because the director (the man behind the diner) wanted it that way
>it's all a dream bro!!
>>217475456it's half a dream, idiot
>>217475074Goddamn, Lost Highway is so good. MD is fine but it is just a retread minus the edge and with goofier Lynch elements. If only we could have seen a Watts/Arquette lesbo sex scene.
>>217474963You can take him or leave him, but David Lynch was a true artist. And a true artist understands that in order for his work to survive, it must retain a certain mystery about itself. For an artist to completely and systematically explain his own work, and thereby settle the matter once and for all, is to kill it. And really, only some sort of monstrous autist would undertake to create a work and then take the trouble to prepare an exegesis of his own work. That task is left to others.
>>21747547180% by runtime
It's about Hollywood requiring people to sell their soul turning them into animated husks desperately trying to regain their humanity through delusional repeated reinvention of the self as expressed through acting.
>>217474963i went in blind and lost gallons when that scene came on
It's a simple plot with a bunch of nonsense thrown on top of it to obfuscate it and make it seem deeper than it really is. Especially on first viewing you're likely to spend the first two hours trying to unravel the red herring mystery plot only to he thrown into confusion by the last 20 minutes.
>>217475513Lynch did great work and spoke a lot of truth about the world as well
>>217475513>>217475564His approach to art was pure and came from both an intensely thought-out but wildly experimental discipline. You should watch the making of the PS2 commercial he directed. You get a clear sense of how his artistic process works. https://youtu.be/WDSaH6srIsc
>>217474963The only meaning from art comes from its ambiguity. If you have to explain art then it's probably shit (within reason, obviously some things require context - but art should never require homework).A filmmaker who has to explain what their film means has already failed. That Lynch never explained this and it's still regarded as a masterpiece tells you that Lynch absolutely succeeded and that any intended meaning is irrelevant when judging its quality.
>>217475647Agreed. Also anyone who hates this and claims Lynch sucks because of it should watch Elephant Man, or better yet imo, The Straight Story. Totally fine to not like the less cohesive narrative films of Lynch but made other types of movies too and I think they were also great in a more straightforward way.
>>217474963you wouldn't get it
>>217475330Anon every legitimate work of art has multiple valid interpretations. Only morons try to disagree with what people say things mean.Zack Snyder makes things where none of the pieces fit together thus rendering all interpretations stupid.
>>217475647>A filmmaker who has to explain what their film means has already failed.
No one has ever successfully explained the meaning of the homeless bum and the box.
>>217475562Only retards need to exert any effort to understand what they’re watching.
>dude you gotta hire this actress>actress appears>is hired>nothing happens>then another actress uses the same name as herthis is like 60% of the movie and really was the only bit I was interested in.
>>217475984The box is just "the truth" and the homeless man and the diner guy with the big eyebrows are elements of her conscience trying to make her confront the truth
>>217475984The bum was naomi watts in a lot of makeup anon. The locked box was reality inside the dream world.
Thing Japan
this is the girl
>>217474963It's not a movie it's an experience. The Club Silencio scene is still one of the most emotional scenes of any film ever for me and I can't even explain why.
>>217475330i don't think he made up a bunch of confusing nonsense on purpose. it all made sense in his head, there were reasons and the dots connected, but he didn't want to reveal all that because once you ruin the mystery there's no reason to speculate or discuss something in-depth anymore.
>>217476046it was Diane's cope for why she wasn't a big Hollywood star like the version of events she imagined when she first came to Hollywood (Betty). Hollywood is a system, it pushes the undeserving to the top while hard workers get passed aside. in her mind, other women (Camilla) only got where they were because other directors want to sleep with them more than her, or got pushed ahead by the faceless Hollywood system.
It's a simple fucking time loop about archetypal characters, why is this so hard for people? The point is they are replaceable, only their role matters.
She raped his sister Phoebe
>>217474963You're supposed to feel it not describe it
>>217474963I always get this movie and picrel confused
>>217476356BOB SAGET WHO RAPED AND KILLED A GIRL IN 1990
>>217474963There is... most of it is understandable with psychology 101 tier knowledge.
>>217476415I miss Gilbert.He actually would've worked nicely with Mr. Lynch
>>217476948Lynch was really good about accounting for the cultural context of casting someone so i bet it would have been a really funny role
>>217476948imagine how TERRIFYING Gilbert's line deliveries would have been over brooding Badalamenti synth chords.
>>217475533how can what's sold off be regained? why'd they want that "humanity" back when it was framed as a roadblock to success? The most successful actors are recognizable commodities, they don't reinvent "the self", just repackage it like changing clothes on a doll. Lynch's fragmented self due to LA/showbiz is from Hollywood Babylon-era of noir or sth.
There are times when you're dreaming when it feels like you're coming back to some familiar scene or element you already experienced in the dream shortly before waking up. I prefer Lost Highway as a movie but the dreamlikeness of MD is unmatched.
MD still filtering people 25 years later, Lynch truly is a genius
>>217477436a shame he never got to experiment with AI, he could have come up with some insane stuff
>>217477481>Twin Peaks 4 but with sloppa to outcringe the cringe sfx in The Returnin retrospect it's a good thing his legacy concluded when it did
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