Mulholland Dr.
Nov. 29th, 2022 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annavereJust got done with my six day week work schedule, which is a relief. Unfortunately, my writing productivity decreased sharply for the duration and will probably stay that way for the holiday season, which tends to coincide with bouts of melancholy anyway. On the other hand, writing has actually helped a lot with that tendency in the past couple of years, so fingers crossed.
Watched Mulholland Dr. last night. Saw it once some years ago (found the DVD at a church sale, which I still find charmingly incongruous) and enjoyed it but I don't think I'd even seen Twin Peaks yet, except for the pilot episode, so my main takeaway was simply crossing David Lynch off my list of famous filmmakers to watch. This time I got more out of it, particularly owing to its swiss cheese plotting (which I have discovered is one of my favorite fannish things ever) in which several scenes have essentially no connection to the main storyline. It jettisoned everything that didn't work for me in Twin Peaks while keeping the show's fairy tale atmosphere of horror, with possibly the most verdant visuals I've ever seen in an L.A. setting. The paranoid menace and supernatural mysteries of the first part are much more appealing to me than the straightforward explanations of the second (although the demon by the dumpster appears in both halves, leading me to wonder whether the film's standard interpretation is in fact even correct).
It also was gorgeous to look at and serves as a reminder that I should really watch films more often.
Watched Mulholland Dr. last night. Saw it once some years ago (found the DVD at a church sale, which I still find charmingly incongruous) and enjoyed it but I don't think I'd even seen Twin Peaks yet, except for the pilot episode, so my main takeaway was simply crossing David Lynch off my list of famous filmmakers to watch. This time I got more out of it, particularly owing to its swiss cheese plotting (which I have discovered is one of my favorite fannish things ever) in which several scenes have essentially no connection to the main storyline. It jettisoned everything that didn't work for me in Twin Peaks while keeping the show's fairy tale atmosphere of horror, with possibly the most verdant visuals I've ever seen in an L.A. setting. The paranoid menace and supernatural mysteries of the first part are much more appealing to me than the straightforward explanations of the second (although the demon by the dumpster appears in both halves, leading me to wonder whether the film's standard interpretation is in fact even correct).
It also was gorgeous to look at and serves as a reminder that I should really watch films more often.
