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When I watched 'Mulholland Drive' I felt like David Lynch was taking me on a journey. I did not enjoy the journey and I also did not like where it left me..stranded in the middle of nowhere, perplexed and agitated. Lynch seems like one of those zaney directors who's bizarre and altogether confusing films are able to gain cult followings from a select few who enjoyed being confused and bewildered by odd films, but overall I would assume that most people just do not get them. When I watch films I do my best to look for the positive aspects rather than the negative ones and try to grasp the directors messages and motives, but with 'Mulholland Drive'..I'm stumped. The trouble is that the film started with so much promise, and despite hearing negative things about the film (confusing weird, hard to follow) I wasintrigued and I was keen to see what was going to happen, but almost straight after the first twenty minutes or so the film began to drift and finally confuse the absolute hell out of me. It's hard to understand Lynch's intentions with this film, did he even have any? Is the film suppose to leave us uncomfortable, confused, annoyed? Or was he (and this is my opinion) a dirty and twisted man who perhaps took a few too many drugs when writing this film. I suppose I will never really know, but it's hard try and sum up this strange tale of events. I suppose the best way to describe the film is; there is a woman left with amnesia after a car crash who manages to find sanctuary with a young aspiring actress, and then these's a film director who does some stuff and his wife's having an affair, there's a man in a cafe with another man and they walk outside and sees a homeless man and one of them faints, and there's a really old guy in a chair saying stuff to a group of people, and then women with amnesia and the actress decide become lesbians and go and see a show where suddenly become two completely different people but they're still lesbians, the end. In terms of Lynch as a director I found he did some interesting stuff and credit where credits due I stuck with the film until the end so I suppose he must've done something right. The most annoying thing with the film though, is that Lynch comes so close to explaining the entire film at the end but then just doesn't, I reckon I could watch the film another five times and still not completely understand it. However I guess that's what some audiences enjoy about his films, the enigmas, the red-herrings and the mystery (some might say the lesbians and the provocative nature of the charecters) but for me it was just too much to handle and I probably wouldn't see it again in the near future because there was some pretty messed stuff.