Top 250-Mullholland Dr.

Its been over a month since I wrote on here and alot has happened in that time. So since August the 10th I have moved out of my old flat,tempoaraily moved in with some friends, convinced some other friends to move up North, found a house with them, put an offer in on it (rental only), been accepted, got accepted on a MA course in Film Studies, completed Two Sprint Distance Triathlons and been abducted by Aliens (I think they were hungarians). All except the kidnap has happened so I've been a little bit busy as Work keeps banging away. Anyway back to talking about films, at least for this post

So onto Mullholland Dr. This doesn't bode well for my new MA course (Its Film Studies with Screenwriting) but I had no idea what was going on for most of this film. I'm sure you could spend pages dissecting this film but I'm not interested enough in it to try.
It was enjoyable and had some good sexually charged scenes between the two main actresses but there were far too many throwaway scenes which didn't seem to add anything. (I guess these were going to be followed up when they originally planned the film as a TV series.) The guy in the diner is the one which comes to mind. And as for the plot I think the most cohesive version of it I've read is that the start of the film is all make believe and that the darker ending is the real world. This explains why Adam has such a harsh time at the start as Naomi Watt's Character feels he stole Rita away from her so is punishing him in her dreams. She is dead in the fantasy as she doesn't want to be her but to be Betty instead. The best scene was when Betty was acting out her piece for the audition I was absolutely riveted and couldn't take my eyes off the screen.

I wouldn't put this as one of the top 250 of all time and was shocked to see how many awards it had won. I'd give it 7 out of 10. That's another one down and more to go.