Something strange happened to me a couple of nights ago. I was lying in bed not quite asleep but just at that point where I was going to be within seconds. I felt like I was dreaming but I wasn’t actually dreaming of anything, I was just in a dreamlike state. I had a sudden feeling of falling and then a thought of a concrete bollard, a small one the type along the side of streets. All I can tell you is that I ran into it and at fairly high speed. I was instantly awake and not only that but my knee pushed itself into the bed hard and bounced me back a foot or so, a noticeable distance. Just as if I had run into something. Suffice it to say I was very awake now and I was lying there with my eyes very wide open wondering what in the fuck had just happened.
I’m watching Mulholland Drive and I’m not sure what to make of it. It isn’t making all that much sense and I get the impression it isn’t suppose to. It seems like four or five movies all rolled into one with no connection between them. The two lead actresses have quite bizarrely got together for no reason at all. (Although a rule of thumb that in every movie the two cute lead actresses should get together on screen wouldn’t be all that bad a thing.) And now, not even ten minutes later in a scene that prompted the words “What the fuck?” they start at it again and it comes close to turning into a rape scene but now ends up being a solo scene. I officially now have no idea at all what this movie is about. Did I mention it was written and directed by David Lynch?
I am hoping the last 40 minutes make more sense but I am now reading Salon’s Everything you were afraid to ask about “Mulholland Drive” guide alongside and I’m still confused.
EDIT:
Ok, the movie is now over and I have read the entire guide to it. I have no clue what I spent the past 2 hours and 15 minutes watching. I I would like to note two things here. The movie hurt my head. The guide to the movie also hurt my head.
I can’t even tell if I liked or enjoyed the movie. I don’t understand anything, I am so very confused.