Twin Perfect, the YouTube channel behind the popular four-and-a-half-hour “Twin Peaks ACTUALLY EXPLAINED” video, has just released another David Lynch analysis, this time focusing on the director’s surrealist 2001 masterpiece Mulholland Drive.
Entitled “The Terrible Secret of Mulholland Drive”, it’s a little over an hour long and adopts a very interesting angle in understanding the film’s confusing plot, one that I hadn’t previously considered. As with his Twin Peaks video, he advocates for a marriage of subtext and the text itself, folding the movie’s deconstruction of Hollywood into his explanation of the story. I highly recommend the video, which you can see below:
David Lynch is pretty much my favourite director currently, ever since I watched his masterful TV magnum opus Twin Peaks. I’ve still got some of his movies left to watch (most notably Blue Velvet), mainly because I’m trying to savour his filmography for as long as possible. I’m going to try to watch Inland Empire this Halloween season. I’m both excited and apprehensive, given the movie’s reputation of either being the Lynchiest masterpiece of all Lynch’s masterpiece or an impenetrable self-indulgence. Let’s be honest, I’m such a Lynch shill at this point that I’ll probably give it five stars (I thought The Elephant Man was just alright but still gave it four stars, just by virtue of it being directed by Dave).
Beyond the Popcorn 