MULHOLLAND DRIVE is director David Lynch's 2001 surrealist Hollywood noir masterpiece. Made as a pilot for a tv show that never happened, is it more than a series of barely connected parts with extra bits of weirdness thrown in for weirds sake? Multiple think pieces and online theories would vehemently disagree with that assessment but even if that disconnected peculiarity is all there is, that's still a lot to enjoy. Funny and violent and creepy but without conventional story-telling, this is potentially the ultimate version of the emperors new clothes with scenes involving seemingly random identity switching, stories that are setup and never completed or expanded upon, or that don’t tie in to other scenes in noticeable ways, random song and dance routines, baffling, unexpected and unexplainable plot twists and a reading of the movie that basically says at multiple points “it was all a dream”. What connects the amnesiac Rita who is struggling to work out why she was almost killed, why she has a bag of money and a mysterious blue key with a secret conspiracy by shadowy forces to recast a Hollywood movie, a bungling hitman and a monstrous figure behind Winkie's diner? You decide. No literally you do, David Lynch isn't saying.
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