by CamilaNo, you're not going to get information on that new drug people have been talking about. The trip that is going to be described here is not a lysergic one. It involves the great cinema knowledge, the originality and the sensibility of David Lynch. These qualities, associated with a subtle and witty sense of humor have allowed this man to shoot another piece of art, named Mulholland Drive.
Mulholland Drive, which is already quite a mysterious title, draws you to its world by a way that can be compared to Kubrick's, not for the elements of the story, nor for the esthetic adopted, but for its capacity of manipulating every single aspect of every single scene. From the soundtrack, which may even include noises, to the thorough conduction of the cast, passing through the costumes and the ambients, everything changes and evolves as the main character's vision gets more and more distorted, causing the whole atmosphere to be modified. Although at first we may feel that all the crazy stuff in this movie is casual, which seems to be a consequence of our putting ourselves in the place of the tormented characters, after the session is finished we are left completely puzzled, then I guess everybody is likely to have the impression that all the non-sense converges towards this meaning that we fail to perceive. Then, especially after a second view, in a deeper analysis, it's realized that all this non-sense is carefully planned and aimed to mean something.
These are all results of the greatness of the direction, which lies in the mysterious, or even magical, atmosphere of this film and specially in the fact that it really impels us to infer interpretations of all kinds, all of which are possible and can be beautiful and incredible to a point where the director's one is diminished from its importance. Even the objects and the places are full of meaning and we leave the theatre with these intangible feelings that we inevitably perceive but cannot express in any logic way that we are used to (hopefully, nobody will misunderstand this description as the one of some other aggressive and intentionally controversial movie of bad taste, which has already become a cliché that must be avoided). Besides, if there is no meaning to all that, that's no longer important, since the direction for itself is really an artistic one, from any angle you try to evaluate it. Also, let's not forget to mention the quality of the actors' work, which would already be worth the tickets.
All in all, we may feel uncomfortable, we may feel delighted, we may even get angry at this film, but no one could deny its capacity to challenge our common-sense way to learn things from the world by limiting them to conform our logic thinking, which gets totally mislead and is just not able to absorb everything this piece of art has to offer us.