It's amazing how we have basically the exact same interpretation of the literal events, but wildly different conclusions regarding the symbolism. To me, the homeless lady holding the blue box represents having the truth, at the cost of losing everything else. It could even more directly symbolize her fear of how Hollywood would ruin her life for going public with what she knows. Similarly, the creepy grandparents represent her fear of returning to her former, ordinary life she had before moving to Hollywood. Your video has given me a lot to think about.
I like the idea that the grandparents are symbolic of promises and how reality destroys these promises, making it difficult to return to whence one came.
Now that you've started going down the Lynch rabbit hole; I wouldn't mind going in even deeper and doing some videos of some of his other work too. Great analysis by the way.
''when you realize the nightmare is real, and the dream is fake, and when you realize just how powerless you are to stop it, then you know you've experienced true horror." this is a great way to express thanatophobia. nightmare being the constantly approaching death, dream being ignoring it as if it isn't going to happen just to stay sane in our day to day lives
Yes, exactly. I'm very much into death awareness and this came up with me as well whilst watching this film. The bum is a symbol for every reality that we have repressed because it's too horrible to live with it in your day to day life, death being the ultimate example of that. This story is so archetypal that you can project many different interpretations onto it, and it will still hold up. That's the thing with Lynch, he creates movies that are visually interesting and engaging to watch in the moment itself, whilst at the same time containing abstract structures and layers that allow you to think it through for years afterwards. Many of the images in this film are inspired by art from all throughout history. He taps into our collective subconscious to engrain associations that will linger around for the rest of your life, until they suddenly come up at seemingly random times. But when you try to reason through why they come up at that moment, you can often find the abstract connection they hold to a specific scenario in your life.
it's really amazing how succinct you were able to be with this. the pacing and structure is perfect so it never feels rushed or overly dense. as a long time fan of the movie, this is a huge breath of fresh air when it comes to videos about it.
I said this before and I'll say it again: For someone who has/is feeling overworked and burnt out from trying to have a normal life and please the youtube algorithm, you are doing an A++ job
I always interpretated that the Homeless man around the corner is in the spot where the Hitman hid the key for Diane to find after the job was done. The man who dies in the dream is standing at the counter when Diane orders the hit in real life.
Absolutely fantastic analysis. Glad to see you shed some light on the clues from the DVD set because those were always a little too obscure for me! :D I came up with a very boring interpretation of the movie before I looked up how the plot was understood by most (and what is generally considered to be the actual plot), and when I was still trying to piece it together myself. Back then, I merely took it as some sort of meta-narrative, of how actors can shape the movie around them in terms of both story, tone and characterisation, hence the two different realities. We go inside the blue box, and suddenly our characters play different roles, the story changes and the tone is completely different - it becomes a different movie, simply because the actors switched parts, which lead to the script being rewritten... or at least, that's what was happening in my brain. Of course, the theory presented in your video is a lot more profound and makes so much more sense, and it leaves very little room for questions (or at least nothing comes to mind on my end :D). It also adds a great deal of importance to the movie's existence overall. David Lynch is a director who shows nothing but respect to his crew and actors, in an industry that is filled with abuse, harassment and other despicable actions that happen every day. So he's not only an incredibly creative and daring director who sticks to his own vision, but he's also a good and genuine person, and I respect him for that. He's definitely one of my favourite directors out there and I love his work dearly.
Yes. The constant camera going back and forth between perspectives of Fisher's character to build that sense of dread and eerieness. Unbelievable and sublime. Great camera work in the film!
Holy shit! I did not see this coming! I admittedly watched the movie but did not understand or and thought much about it. Brilliant director, thanks for this video Max!
Just 3 hours before seeing this vid out of nowhere I wanted to listen to No Stars and then to her rendition of Crying. I *love* that scene. I was always proud of myself in that I could fully explain the story to anyone but I still missed a bunch of things. Thanks for this. They're always gems.
Only this year have I began my quest for Lynch films, starting with Mulholland Dr. One good quote of his came from a Rolling Stones interview where Lynch was asked the following question: "What role do dreams play in the development of your ideas and Lynch responded, “Not much, except daydreaming. Very rarely have I gotten ideas from nighttime dreams, but I love dream logic. And cinema can [show] dream logic.“ Daydreaming truly is powerful and a wonderful thing to have.
He did a great job creating the feel of a dream. I still don't know which parts were the dream and which parts were actually real. He also plays on our own natural inclination to suspend disbelief when watching a film. This movie is so hard to grasp.
this is one of my favorite movies ever. I watched it last weekend and my stomach and heart dropped listening to your analysis. I am happy to say though that my first theory of the movie concerning the key was correct; it was the path to unlocking the truth. I mainly thought this because when people undergo traumatic experiences, our brains protect us from those memories. So, I figured that Diana wanted to block out her guilt and that the key was the ultimate way of her realizing what she did. I didn't know about the color's significance though, but my god is this analysis and film amazing.
David Lynch Said In An Interview That " There's Nothing Complex About This Movie, If You Watch Slowly, You Would Easily Crack It". That's True. I Never Knew Nothing About This Film Before Watching It. While Watching The Movie, Somehow I Interpreted For The First Time That This Is Nothing But Her Guilt. So Glad To See Someone Posting A Video About The Film With The Same Ideology I Had. Thank You Max Derrat❤️
There's another aspect to it that lies outside of Diane's mind. First, Betty and Camilla see Diane lying dead - but Betty is still dreaming, so the suicide hasn't yet happened. 2. The blue-haired audience member who said Silencio at the end after Diane died.
I think you have articulated the consensus interpretation very well. However, there is a deeper layer that some have articulated (Twin Perfect RUclips channel for example) that I find quite convincing and insightful. Camila IS the casting couch. She is an abstract idea represented by a person. Diane fell in love with the casting couch, it gave her some glory (parts in movies), sexual excitation with the "beautiful people" of Hollywood (directors and producers and famous actors). But eventually those moved on to younger and prettier actresses and began to reject Diane, which made her resentful and hateful. She thought about killing the couch (by maybe going public) but feared being homeless and unemployable for telling the truth (ending up being the dirty filthy homeless person living next to the dumpster, holding the box of "truth", ostracized by the industry). And that is what David Lynch meant by different layers of reality: a dream state: (Betty and Rita, that is more revealing than reality), Diane and Camila (a surface representation of reality), and Diane and the Casting Couch (an even deeper reality that brings with it resentment, fear and self-loathing). Such a brilliant movie.
I think you're closer to the truth. This film is a warning, foreshadowing what was going to become public 15 years later in the real world. Lynch knew. Well everyone in Hollywood knew. What's brilliant is that Lynch was able to make a movie about a topic that Hollywood (Universal) never would have green-lit or agreed to distribute, and he masked it in metaphors. Silencio.
A bit tinfoily but i can dig it lol. I try to make sense of the significance of each scene, and that reading is the only one that makes the final scene (the blue haired lady whispering "silencio") meaningful and not hamhanded imo. Will definitely be giving that video a watch.
@TraderJoe888-- you got almost everything right, except for the fact that Aunt Ruth is the main character and that Betty and Diane are representations of her. The woman sitting in the balcony is also a representation of Aunt Ruth. Young Aunt Ruth is seen dancing the jitterbug at the beginning of the film. As the other dancers start to disappear, you see two images of redhead Aunt Ruth (with no dance partner) staring over at the lit image of "Betty" and the elderly couple. The elderly couple represent Ruth's desire to go to Hollywood, which is why they arrive there with her. Lynch also shows a redhead woman arriving and getting in a taxi, simultaneously with Betty doing the same. Everything that "Betty/Diane" does in the film is linked with Aunt Ruth either, arriving, departing, or watching. Aunt Ruth is laying down to die at the beginning of the film, and dies at the end,and this is shown as her in the balcony saying silencio In the middle of the film during "Betty's" audition, a redhead representation of Aunt Ruth is sitting on a literal casting couch with a short haired blond woman, while the assistant who represents the director Adam Kesher (thin, dressed all in black, thick glasses, both shown with an A symbol nearby) sits above her and looks at her with a predatory stare---at the same time the scene of sexual abuse is literally being acted out by Betty. When Betty and Camilla vanish at the end of the first dream, Aunt Ruth remains because it is her dream and Betty and Camilla were only representations and abstractions of events in her life
What's even wilder is that the first nearly 3/4 of this film were originally shot as a pilot for an ABC TV series. They passed on it and it was later supplemented with additional footage (of all the Diane stuff) 18 months later and recut into a feature.
If you pay close attention Camilla never gets killed by the hitman, clue #1 The cop in the non dream world says a woman escaped the accident, #2 The hitman talks about a crash happened prior day with the man he ends up killing, #3 The hitman asks the girl if she has seen a brunette walking the streets
I don't know how I didn't pick up on it before, but... Club Silencio pretty much has to be literally "the club of silence" - referring to the silence surrounding Hollywood's ugly side, and the circle of people who keep it that way.
There are clues that Diane was silenced by family after a sexual grooming or abuse situation, e.g. Aunt Ruth failing to notice the naked intruder (Rita) right under her nose and later at the end of the dream walking around a bedroom after hearing something (implied to have been the blue box - the box of dark truths - falling on the floor after Rita opens it) and leaving again looking satisfied that nothing was there (this has to be important to Diane's mind given the placement and repetition); Betty's discovery of naked Rita assumed to be "a friend of Aunt Ruth's", depicting the naked intruder as the scared vulnerable party in a possible dynamic reversal; the painting of a famous Roman incest victim framed clearly while Betty is on the phone having the "no need to call the police, just a misunderstanding" call, possibly reversing who said this to whom; the audition script, reversing who was more control in the grooming; Club Silencio having a proud-looking big-haired woman a bit like Aunt Ruth watch from up high while the host does his sexually coded weird seizure induction of Betty; Diane deeply wanting to be in A Sylvia North Story, as she tells Coco emphatically, and the name of that movie is based on the name of a movie about sexual abuse; Diane's moment of sexual aggression against Camilla on the couch, something unusual in non-psychopaths who lack abuse history, and I think a few other clues collected on the excellent old fansite forum but I can't remember them all.
Outstanding analysis! I watched your video twice in a few hour window. A film like Mulholland Drive is impossible to decipher in a single viewing. It is a psychological journey through a maze of the subconscious. As I study the film, it is great to see videos like yours to gather multiple perspectives on the matter. This is the kind of abstract film that one could study for a lifetime and still not have definitive answers regarding its true meaning. Of course, David Lynch will never reveal the inner workings and absolute truths in his art, so that leaves the work to us. Mulholland Drive is a great, great film and it is a real pleasure watching it repeatedly not only for the purpose of study, but also for sheer pleasure. Afterall, it has immense replay value.
I love what Lynch allegedly said about the film and his use of red curtains which allow the viewer to be transported into another world, into the dream. "Curtains are both hiding and revealing. Sometimes it’s so beautiful that they’re hiding, it gets your imagination going. But in the theatre, when the curtains open, you have this fantastic euphoria, that you’re going to see something new, something will be revealed.” Such a simple, yet succinct explanation. I loved this film, and its dualism tendencies. I didn't even know about the "Hollywood is Hell" sign until my third viewing. I think I might watch either Blue Velvet next or Lost Highway and then Eraserhead for my fill of Lynch. I'd like to experience his elephant movie and Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Inland Empire. The inland in the title just sounds intriguing then adding empire, like what is that? And I do really wonder if the 10 clues he gave on the DVD to "solve" the mystery of Mulholland Dr. were just a guide, and that the clues aren't there to completely assemble the puzzle. Lynch's open interpretation method is great, and I think we'll never know what he personally thought what it all meant, but that just adds to the magic and intrigue of the film. Loved the flashing montage of Evangelion over your commentary, Max. That video and Tranquil Dionysian's one. Oof... That was hefty, but of great service and information. Thanks for that and this video. What I loved most about the film was the Winkie's diner beginner scene and its hovering, dreamlike camera and exiting out of the diner into the harsh light and that well-timed 'jumpscare' that left me nearly breathless-- the dread and panic that something was coming. I watched this film three times, and you know it's coming but it still manages to perturb and grip you as if you could feel and experience it in your being itself and Patrick Fischler having a heart attack at the end of the scene. Of course, Rita walking up the hidden stair path with Diane Selwyn up to Adam Kesher's house and seeing his "mom". It felt so surreal and exhilarating. Breathtaking visuals and mesmerizing imagery around this film. I did quite like the use of red and neon bright blue, that was a nice touch of symbolism and use especially during the Club Silencio scene and at the very end. I nearly cried from that because it was just so captivating listening to Rebekah Del Rio's haunting, despairing voice leading into her collapsing at the end with the song and her voice remaining. The knocking of the door and the blue key and box, with the incompetent hitman hired by Diane. The final scene with the bum who is a male, but played by an actress was greatly unnerving, and the smoke and diminutive couple appearing again aside from the airport. That scene just screamed unfulfilled dreams and ambitions, shattered expectations and 'reality' and a possibility of an abuse vibe by grandparents toward Diane, though I'm not too sure if they are supposed to be her grandparents or maybe another symbolic image not meant to be taken literally. Lynch truly is a virtuoso of depicting the intangible and the personal. Lynch was one of those filmmakers who were highly influenced by great painters; in particular for Lynch, two: Francis Bacon and troubled writer Franz Kafka; and given that fact, it makes sense because Lynch did some paintings himself. Lastly, Aunt Ruth interestingly when the name is broken apart, you get the phrase: a 'untruth.'
Watching this movie for the first time at 17 y.o. was one of the deepest experiences in my life. I was a Freud fangirl and loved analysing dreams. Guess this is why I most of the clues on my first watch (although I didn't know about this list back then) and told my friends "Look at the red lamps!! They've got to mean stuff!!" but they replied I was overthinking :D
I just watched Mulholland Drive yesterday! It was my first David Lynch film. At first, I didn't get the film AT ALL. It was mad confusing. Then I read this Radio Times article explaining the movie and all I can say is... what in the Silent Hill lol. The symbolism heavily reminds me of what you'd see in the Silent Hill games. My newfound understanding significantly deepened my appreciation for the movie. Coincidentally, I found a Silent Hill 2 song title that (kinda) spoils Diane/Betty's story: Overdose Delusion.
i also think the the ending scene is supposed to be the cops arriving to arrest her. The flashing lights look like police lights, and they coincide with the screaming sounds, that sound like sirens. Also, the neighbour does mention that two detectives were looking for her.
The scene where Camilla and Betty discover the body in the apartment was so gut wrenching the first time I watched it. Lynch really is a master of building a sense of suspense.
For years I tried to analyze this movie since I liked but planted me so many questions but it was a complete failure to me but this analisys man.. awesome. A well good job Max :) !
Thanks to this video I am going to be viewing Mulholland Drive through a COMPLETELY different lens the next time I watch it, as the first time I went in blind and came out not quite sure how to put together the pieces of the puzzle.
15:02 that devil of Lynch did it again!, Rita/Camilla siting on the bed while Bettie enters, its like, portraited on the closet door. I dont know or care if it has meaning, but boy, that aesthetic and framing is on point!
Dude, this channel is awesomeness, every video I've watched! Been subbed only a week or so but, man oh man am I very intrigued by this mans content! Bravo! Mwah! Love your work daaaaaarling, really do lol.
I've always enjoyed this film, but I feel like I've never really understood it fully until now, thank you so very much for such a chilling explanation/analysis video. 😀 You do get surrealism after all Max! 😅
Don't care what anyone says.. I always think Diana and camelia are the same person. And she became camelia for the part. Slept with the director for the part. But he didn't give it too her... she wanted to kill that part of herself camelia for what she become.losing her innocents from when she first came to Hollywood..
Love this! Am currently in preparation for a theater role and this helps me see a more subtle yet obscure perspective on my character. Thank you Max! 😁👍
Just saw this film for the 5th time hoping I might finally piece it together. Suprisingly, some if it did start to fall into place but my questions still vastly outnumbered any answers I had gleaned. Hence, I searched the net and found this. Wow.... I had about 10% of this and I'm probably flattering myself with that estimate.... my personal male version of Betty trying to pretend I'm smarter than I am. In my defence, I doubt there's a single person on the planet that doesn't have an alter ego which flatters their true selves. Not owning a dvd of this film I was therefore unaware of the 10 clues. In truth, I would still have been baffled. I would therefore like to thank you for this excellent and insighful explanation which has greatly helped me to appreciate the films nuances and depth. The next time I see it will be with new eyes and thusly, a different experience.
My take (abbreviated): The SOS clearly printed on the coffee cup is a huge clue. The deed isn't the murder, it's her acceptance of using the casting couch to get her career launched. The secret shortcut to the party. Diane IS the casting couch, she's a metaphor. The murder isn't a real murder, it's Diane killing or accepting using the casting couch to get ahead. If you live in Hollywood, Winkie's is literally Denny's on Sunset, where arrangements might actually go down. The cowboy is fate, or luck-- another metaphor. Notice when Camilla kisses Camilla, when she leaves who walks the other way in the hall? The cowboy. To me, blue doesn't represent truth, blue is the secret of the casting couch system. The character behind Winkies is the dirty Hollywood holding it's nasty secret. What I think Lynch did here was make a movie that the studios would have never green lit, had they known what it was about-- and he got Universal to distribute it. The movie is a warning. It foreshadows what came to light 15 years later. This casting couch system is a horror, a plague. It's prostitution (red light) and Lynch found it reprehensible. This was his abstract way of telling the story.
The guy spitting up the espresso is an association, Diane was drinking coffee during the traumatic party, so she associates the taste of coffee/espresso with feelings of intense disgust. In the dream space, every character represents an aspect of Diane.
To this day I still can’t believe this insert exists. It’s probably the least Lynchian thing David Lynch has ever done, and maybe that was his point. It also helps to understand that almost all of his movies are some type of an underlying critique on Hollywood and the “Hollywood machine” in some way, shape, or form. His movies have so many layers, and I love the fact that there is NO wrong way to understand his films. Whatever you get out of them is correct.
Alright, someone help me with this one. Just last night, before this video was released, I had a dream that I was obliterated by a witch. I walked up a set of stairs and entered the door on the left, and reality began to break down. I never saw the witch, but I felt her malevolence as I came undone, dissolving with the room around me. I reappeared in the past and my memory of the event was erased. The dream carried on as it did before and again I came upon the door to this witch room. The memory of what happened last time flooded back into my mind and struck me with terror. I tried to enter the room, but when reality began to unwind like last time I ran. I left the house and tried to get out of the neighborhood, but the whole time I felt the witch's malevolent presence watching me.
Maybe you feel like you're stuck in a pattern of events in your life and you or someone near you doesn't seem to learn from this pattern? Interesting dream, sounds intense!
Funny that you uploaded this video recently and I just found it even being a long time subscriber, but anyways, I say it’s funny because I just had a serious of dreams that I could barely remember, and one of them had me very angry at family members that I haven’t seen in a long time and I was stuck with 2 of them and I needed medication, but they weren’t taking me to get it, and they were supposed to take me, but they were stalling a lot of time and just having fun at the location that we were stuck at, and I was angry because I wanted to go because I needed my medication. Then later on in one of the other dreams, I was having physical battles with weapons against some of those family members that I haven’t seen in a long time, and I was so damn angry at them in the dream, fighting with strong intent to kill them. Dreams are so damn weird.
Most interesting, like always! Cool Bonnie Aarons appeared there! She's the Nun, Valak from _The Conjuring 2!_ Maybe they got inspired to casting Bonnie as the Nunc from this movie... Definitely looks scary! Thanks.
Dreams are all about suggestions: In the most ironical scene of movie history: the coffee scene Adams manager tells him, the director(!) this at the beginning: "See Adam there're some suggestions they're to be brought forward. I know you said you would entertain suggestions. And that's all anybody here asking you to do." All the acting, the scenes, the images, the words, even Lynch own comments (so called clues...recommandations) are highly suggestive. See the marvellous scene with the cowboy, the genius, almost sarcastic, scene of the audition. Indeed its a dark movie about making a movie. It's a nightmare. Lynch's Mulholland Drive is an absolute masterpiece of Art.
The fact that it's robes and dresses that's red is to me the bigger hint. It's draped and flowing look is not so subtlety reminiscent of cinema curtains. Suggesting that like a movie, it's something made up or fake. If it weren't already very obvious these kind of curtains feature heavily in the Silencio scene.
The "10 clues" is such a bizarre thing to me. Compared to some of his work, I feel like Mulholland Drive is one of his films that the viewer would need the least help with. Still awesome that it exists, but we could have used something like that for Lost Highway or Inland Empire!
+1, Commenting for your algo. Also, good shit on taking a risk (to your monetization/view count/content and all that stressful content creator necessary evil) in doing a video covering something off the beaten path. Good form. It's always good to do something cause you enjoy it too, and I empathize with ya how it can be a constant sustainability pull to keep doing the bread and butter that pulls in income. You rock. Thanks for the risk.
I maybe wrong about this, but I'm almost positive that at the party scene we hear Adam Kesher and someone off screen speaking Spanish for a moment. At first, I thought it was Italian, but I heard the word "nunca," which is Spanish for never. In Italian, never is mai. It's at the party scene that Diane starts crying over Camilla. If it was indeed Spanish that we were hearing, that would tie into the song Crying by Roy Orbison being sung in Spanish at Club Silencio.
Why is it that everything is becoming either an Eva refrence or a David lynch refrence in my life. Why are they slowly overlapping more and not. We live inside a dream
When i look/listen at this video the only thing i can think of is the dream journal that i have written and nothing that i written down makes sense but i`m so desperate to know what they mean and want to talk about it to people
Some dreams definietly have some meaning. Once I dreamt of a lifeless but unharmed woman's body. She was naked, on an autopsy table. I stabbed a knife ih her side, then I woke up to the sharp feeling in my side. Another one, that was more on the nose, that I stood before a mirror. My hair got longer, my face changed, my lips got red with lipstick, and my nails grow longer and got red nail polish on them. These were years ago, and l learned that Im transgender like 8 or 9 months ago. In a more abstract dream of mine, I flew through the cosmos, and through a star. That star wasn't just a ball of hot plasma tho. As I got closer it opened up to be a tunnel and when I gone through, it closed behind me to be a sphere again. Since then I think that if you were to find a hole in reality, or some sort of portal, that would look like a sphere turning into a tunnel, turning into a sphere again behind you. I don't believe that these sort of things exist, and I don't know if they do or do not. I can only be honest about my ignorance, and that's how I am with spiritual stuff too. But my opinion is, that consciousness is a mere byproduct of intellect, and it only comes from our brains. Knowing evolution, it makes more sense than us developing a transceiver of some sort of god or a cosmic unconscious. And synchronicity is just cognitive bias at work. Even if ther's a little chance of happening something so specific, you don't label your memories of something specific NOT happening as such. So you don't have enough perspective. Max Derrat, I found your channel because the Tool videos, and I learned a lot about mysticism. There's differences between our opinions and Im thankful for the chance to show you, and your audience my thoughts. Keep up the good work
The inclusion of the ambient tracks from the Limbo score fit perfectly. There are a few others like Yumi Nikki and Silent Hill 2, but Limbo is truly one of those games that I could compare to an art film masterwork, that transcends the traditional gameplay structure in favour of interactive/immersive narrative storytelling.
Diane does not likely know the words to Cryin' in Spanish, nor the other Spanish and French spoken in the Silencio scene and she's not the one who looks into the box, and it is of tremendous importance that the person having the dream be the one who looks into the box and sees the darkness.
Watching this, it seems to me there are also parallels with The Wizard of Oz. I think The Bum reminded me of the wicked witch, and something about the colour clues reminded me of the yellow brick road and the emerald city. Not to mention the dream aspect and reality not being what it appears to be on the surface. I might have to watch Mulholland Drive and delve a little deeper!
And there's a bizarre synchronicity with all of that and my own existence right now that I can't even begin to understand. I'll just say that Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, which starts with the repetition of the word jitterbug, has been in my head an awful lot lately.
Max, you really really need to play Darkwood and give us your take on the story. There are many people (and I agree with them) that connect it with David Lynch, Silent Hill and Roadside Picnic, so at least the first two should really be something down your alley. It could also have something to do with the Heart of Darkness, after all, all roads lead deeper into the woods (but it's up to you to decide if that's true). Anyway, don't rush, I do not mean to compel you, take your time :) Stay in good health and keep up the good work!
Can't help but notice some of the parallels with Perfect Blue. I like to think it could have inspired Lynch to re-purpose the archetype as a way of telling Hollywood's dark secrets. Inland Empire also has what appear to be callbacks to this idea he elaborated on so beautifully in Mulholland. The man has been to many film festivals so I don't rule it out. Also the possibility that any similarities are just coincidental is equally mystifying.
It's amazing how we have basically the exact same interpretation of the literal events, but wildly different conclusions regarding the symbolism. To me, the homeless lady holding the blue box represents having the truth, at the cost of losing everything else. It could even more directly symbolize her fear of how Hollywood would ruin her life for going public with what she knows. Similarly, the creepy grandparents represent her fear of returning to her former, ordinary life she had before moving to Hollywood. Your video has given me a lot to think about.
The box represents the truth to me, too.
I always wondered if the old people were supposed to be her grandparents.
Symbols are flexible and wouldn’t have it any other way.
I like the idea that the grandparents are symbolic of promises and how reality destroys these promises, making it difficult to return to whence one came.
I think the grandparents represent her innocence in a way.
The bum is drugs she Takes before she sleeps. The old Guys are her conscience
Now that you've started going down the Lynch rabbit hole; I wouldn't mind going in even deeper and doing some videos of some of his other work too. Great analysis by the way.
so do you think dreams are events that will happen or have secret message
''when you realize the nightmare is real, and the dream is fake, and when you realize just how powerless you are to stop it, then you know you've experienced true horror." this is a great way to express thanatophobia. nightmare being the constantly approaching death, dream being ignoring it as if it isn't going to happen just to stay sane in our day to day lives
Yes, exactly. I'm very much into death awareness and this came up with me as well whilst watching this film. The bum is a symbol for every reality that we have repressed because it's too horrible to live with it in your day to day life, death being the ultimate example of that.
This story is so archetypal that you can project many different interpretations onto it, and it will still hold up. That's the thing with Lynch, he creates movies that are visually interesting and engaging to watch in the moment itself, whilst at the same time containing abstract structures and layers that allow you to think it through for years afterwards. Many of the images in this film are inspired by art from all throughout history.
He taps into our collective subconscious to engrain associations that will linger around for the rest of your life, until they suddenly come up at seemingly random times. But when you try to reason through why they come up at that moment, you can often find the abstract connection they hold to a specific scenario in your life.
Your beginning story sounds like the start of a joke.
"So a guy walks into a dream where he's greeted by Steven Tyler and Ice Cube"
it's really amazing how succinct you were able to be with this. the pacing and structure is perfect so it never feels rushed or overly dense. as a long time fan of the movie, this is a huge breath of fresh air when it comes to videos about it.
I said this before and I'll say it again: For someone who has/is feeling overworked and burnt out from trying to have a normal life and please the youtube algorithm, you are doing an A++ job
I always interpretated that the Homeless man around the corner is in the spot where the Hitman hid the key for Diane to find after the job was done. The man who dies in the dream is standing at the counter when Diane orders the hit in real life.
This is one of my very favorite movies ever. It's the one that got me into Lynch. I love this. Thank you, Max.
This is my first and favorite Lynch film. The second being blue velvet.
My favorite David Lynch film is & will always be Eraserhead.
It deeply influenced my art. 😊
@@dlbyrd-gasca2730 couldn't finished eraserhead. The baby thing is too creepy for me.
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Absolutely fantastic analysis. Glad to see you shed some light on the clues from the DVD set because those were always a little too obscure for me! :D
I came up with a very boring interpretation of the movie before I looked up how the plot was understood by most (and what is generally considered to be the actual plot), and when I was still trying to piece it together myself.
Back then, I merely took it as some sort of meta-narrative, of how actors can shape the movie around them in terms of both story, tone and characterisation, hence the two different realities. We go inside the blue box, and suddenly our characters play different roles, the story changes and the tone is completely different - it becomes a different movie, simply because the actors switched parts, which lead to the script being rewritten... or at least, that's what was happening in my brain.
Of course, the theory presented in your video is a lot more profound and makes so much more sense, and it leaves very little room for questions (or at least nothing comes to mind on my end :D). It also adds a great deal of importance to the movie's existence overall.
David Lynch is a director who shows nothing but respect to his crew and actors, in an industry that is filled with abuse, harassment and other despicable actions that happen every day.
So he's not only an incredibly creative and daring director who sticks to his own vision, but he's also a good and genuine person, and I respect him for that. He's definitely one of my favourite directors out there and I love his work dearly.
Honestly a more interesting take than the average one
the scene with the homeless person scared me so much when i watched this film for the first time, still gives me the creeps.
I still cringe and close my eyes
That might be the best jump scare I've ever seen in a film...
...cause it actually got me! 😅
Yes. The constant camera going back and forth between perspectives of Fisher's character to build that sense of dread and eerieness. Unbelievable and sublime. Great camera work in the film!
Holy shit! I did not see this coming! I admittedly watched the movie but did not understand or and thought much about it. Brilliant director, thanks for this video Max!
Just 3 hours before seeing this vid out of nowhere I wanted to listen to No Stars and then to her rendition of Crying. I *love* that scene. I was always proud of myself in that I could fully explain the story to anyone but I still missed a bunch of things. Thanks for this. They're always gems.
Only this year have I began my quest for Lynch films, starting with Mulholland Dr. One good quote of his came from a Rolling Stones interview where Lynch was asked the following question: "What role do dreams play in the development of your ideas and Lynch responded, “Not much, except daydreaming. Very rarely have I gotten ideas from nighttime dreams, but I love dream logic. And cinema can [show] dream logic.“ Daydreaming truly is powerful and a wonderful thing to have.
He did a great job creating the feel of a dream. I still don't know which parts were the dream and which parts were actually real. He also plays on our own natural inclination to suspend disbelief when watching a film. This movie is so hard to grasp.
this is one of my favorite movies ever. I watched it last weekend and my stomach and heart dropped listening to your analysis. I am happy to say though that my first theory of the movie concerning the key was correct; it was the path to unlocking the truth. I mainly thought this because when people undergo traumatic experiences, our brains protect us from those memories. So, I figured that Diana wanted to block out her guilt and that the key was the ultimate way of her realizing what she did. I didn't know about the color's significance though, but my god is this analysis and film amazing.
Two of my favourite things together - Max on Lynch.
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David Lynch Said In An Interview That " There's Nothing Complex About This Movie, If You Watch Slowly, You Would Easily Crack It". That's True. I Never Knew Nothing About This Film Before Watching It. While Watching The Movie, Somehow I Interpreted For The First Time That This Is Nothing But Her Guilt. So Glad To See Someone Posting A Video About The Film With The Same Ideology I Had. Thank You Max Derrat❤️
There's another aspect to it that lies outside of Diane's mind. First, Betty and Camilla see Diane lying dead - but Betty is still dreaming, so the suicide hasn't yet happened. 2. The blue-haired audience member who said Silencio at the end after Diane died.
This is the one Lynch film I've had to rewatch the most to fully grasp.
I'm always so excited when I see you in my notifs feed, lovelovelove your content man!
I think you have articulated the consensus interpretation very well. However, there is a deeper layer that some have articulated (Twin Perfect RUclips channel for example) that I find quite convincing and insightful. Camila IS the casting couch. She is an abstract idea represented by a person. Diane fell in love with the casting couch, it gave her some glory (parts in movies), sexual excitation with the "beautiful people" of Hollywood (directors and producers and famous actors). But eventually those moved on to younger and prettier actresses and began to reject Diane, which made her resentful and hateful. She thought about killing the couch (by maybe going public) but feared being homeless and unemployable for telling the truth (ending up being the dirty filthy homeless person living next to the dumpster, holding the box of "truth", ostracized by the industry). And that is what David Lynch meant by different layers of reality: a dream state: (Betty and Rita, that is more revealing than reality), Diane and Camila (a surface representation of reality), and Diane and the Casting Couch (an even deeper reality that brings with it resentment, fear and self-loathing). Such a brilliant movie.
I think you're closer to the truth. This film is a warning, foreshadowing what was going to become public 15 years later in the real world. Lynch knew. Well everyone in Hollywood knew. What's brilliant is that Lynch was able to make a movie about a topic that Hollywood (Universal) never would have green-lit or agreed to distribute, and he masked it in metaphors. Silencio.
A bit tinfoily but i can dig it lol. I try to make sense of the significance of each scene, and that reading is the only one that makes the final scene (the blue haired lady whispering "silencio") meaningful and not hamhanded imo. Will definitely be giving that video a watch.
@TraderJoe888-- you got almost everything right, except for the fact that Aunt Ruth is the main character and that Betty and Diane are representations of her. The woman sitting in the balcony is also a representation of Aunt Ruth. Young Aunt Ruth is seen dancing the jitterbug at the beginning of the film. As the other dancers start to disappear, you see two images of redhead Aunt Ruth (with no dance partner) staring over at the lit image of "Betty" and the elderly couple.
The elderly couple represent Ruth's desire to go to Hollywood, which is why they arrive there with her. Lynch also shows a redhead woman arriving and getting in a taxi, simultaneously with Betty doing the same.
Everything that "Betty/Diane" does in the film is linked with Aunt Ruth either, arriving, departing, or watching.
Aunt Ruth is laying down to die at the beginning of the film, and dies at the end,and this is shown as her in the balcony saying silencio
In the middle of the film during "Betty's" audition, a redhead representation of Aunt Ruth is sitting on a literal casting couch with a short haired blond woman, while the assistant who represents the director Adam Kesher (thin, dressed all in black, thick glasses, both shown with an A symbol nearby) sits above her and looks at her with a predatory stare---at the same time the scene of sexual abuse is literally being acted out by Betty.
When Betty and Camilla vanish at the end of the first dream, Aunt Ruth remains because it is her dream and Betty and Camilla were only representations and abstractions of events in her life
Wow. I literally just finished this movie last night and then you uploaded this video. That’s awesome
I've never seen this movie but watching this analysis makes me want to.
You totally should, & if you haven't seen Eraserhead yet I'd highly suggest that too.
Incredible I stumble in my favorite youtuber amidst of a weird existencial crysis , love you max! Already feeling better
"It's only when the Cowboy tells Diane to wake up that she wakes up" - and, I would say, she wakes up inside another dream, the one we live in
What's even wilder is that the first nearly 3/4 of this film were originally shot as a pilot for an ABC TV series. They passed on it and it was later supplemented with additional footage (of all the Diane stuff) 18 months later and recut into a feature.
If you pay close attention Camilla never gets killed by the hitman, clue #1 The cop in the non dream world says a woman escaped the accident, #2 The hitman talks about a crash happened prior day with the man he ends up killing, #3 The hitman asks the girl if she has seen a brunette walking the streets
I don't know how I didn't pick up on it before, but... Club Silencio pretty much has to be literally "the club of silence" - referring to the silence surrounding Hollywood's ugly side, and the circle of people who keep it that way.
There are clues that Diane was silenced by family after a sexual grooming or abuse situation, e.g. Aunt Ruth failing to notice the naked intruder (Rita) right under her nose and later at the end of the dream walking around a bedroom after hearing something (implied to have been the blue box - the box of dark truths - falling on the floor after Rita opens it) and leaving again looking satisfied that nothing was there (this has to be important to Diane's mind given the placement and repetition); Betty's discovery of naked Rita assumed to be "a friend of Aunt Ruth's", depicting the naked intruder as the scared vulnerable party in a possible dynamic reversal; the painting of a famous Roman incest victim framed clearly while Betty is on the phone having the "no need to call the police, just a misunderstanding" call, possibly reversing who said this to whom; the audition script, reversing who was more control in the grooming; Club Silencio having a proud-looking big-haired woman a bit like Aunt Ruth watch from up high while the host does his sexually coded weird seizure induction of Betty; Diane deeply wanting to be in A Sylvia North Story, as she tells Coco emphatically, and the name of that movie is based on the name of a movie about sexual abuse; Diane's moment of sexual aggression against Camilla on the couch, something unusual in non-psychopaths who lack abuse history, and I think a few other clues collected on the excellent old fansite forum but I can't remember them all.
I never talk about this movie, but I was telling a friend of mine 3 days ago this was possibly my favorite movie ever made.
Outstanding analysis! I watched your video twice in a few hour window. A film like Mulholland Drive is impossible to decipher in a single viewing. It is a psychological journey through a maze of the subconscious.
As I study the film, it is great to see videos like yours to gather multiple perspectives on the matter. This is the kind of abstract film that one could study for a lifetime and still not have definitive answers regarding its true meaning.
Of course, David Lynch will never reveal the inner workings and absolute truths in his art, so that leaves the work to us. Mulholland Drive is a great, great film and it is a real pleasure watching it repeatedly not only for the purpose of study, but also for sheer pleasure. Afterall, it has immense replay value.
I love what Lynch allegedly said about the film and his use of red curtains which allow the viewer to be transported into another world, into the dream. "Curtains are both hiding and revealing. Sometimes it’s so beautiful that they’re hiding,
it gets your imagination going. But in the theatre, when the curtains open,
you have this fantastic euphoria, that you’re going to see something new, something will be revealed.”
Such a simple, yet succinct explanation. I loved this film, and its dualism tendencies. I didn't even know about the "Hollywood is Hell" sign until my third viewing. I think I might watch either Blue Velvet next or Lost Highway and then Eraserhead for my fill of Lynch. I'd like to experience his elephant movie and Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Inland Empire. The inland in the title just sounds intriguing then adding empire, like what is that? And I do really wonder if the 10 clues he gave on the DVD to "solve" the mystery of Mulholland Dr. were just a guide, and that the clues aren't there to completely assemble the puzzle. Lynch's open interpretation method is great, and I think we'll never know what he personally thought what it all meant, but that just adds to the magic and intrigue of the film. Loved the flashing montage of Evangelion over your commentary, Max. That video and Tranquil Dionysian's one. Oof... That was hefty, but of great service and information. Thanks for that and this video. What I loved most about the film was the Winkie's diner beginner scene and its hovering, dreamlike camera and exiting out of the diner into the harsh light and that well-timed 'jumpscare' that left me nearly breathless-- the dread and panic that something was coming. I watched this film three times, and you know it's coming but it still manages to perturb and grip you as if you could feel and experience it in your being itself and Patrick Fischler having a heart attack at the end of the scene. Of course, Rita walking up the hidden stair path with Diane Selwyn up to Adam Kesher's house and seeing his "mom". It felt so surreal and exhilarating. Breathtaking visuals and mesmerizing imagery around this film. I did quite like the use of red and neon bright blue, that was a nice touch of symbolism and use especially during the Club Silencio scene and at the very end. I nearly cried from that because it was just so captivating listening to Rebekah Del Rio's haunting, despairing voice leading into her collapsing at the end with the song and her voice remaining. The knocking of the door and the blue key and box, with the incompetent hitman hired by Diane. The final scene with the bum who is a male, but played by an actress was greatly unnerving, and the smoke and diminutive couple appearing again aside from the airport. That scene just screamed unfulfilled dreams and ambitions, shattered expectations and 'reality' and a possibility of an abuse vibe by grandparents toward Diane, though I'm not too sure if they are supposed to be her grandparents or maybe another symbolic image not meant to be taken literally. Lynch truly is a virtuoso of depicting the intangible and the personal. Lynch was one of those filmmakers who were highly influenced by great painters; in particular for Lynch, two: Francis Bacon and troubled writer Franz Kafka; and given that fact, it makes sense because Lynch did some paintings himself. Lastly, Aunt Ruth interestingly when the name is broken apart, you get the phrase: a 'untruth.'
Just wanted to drop by and say congrats on 200k subs. Keep up the excellent work, dude!
this was a fricking amazing video! thanks Max!
Watching this movie for the first time at 17 y.o. was one of the deepest experiences in my life. I was a Freud fangirl and loved analysing dreams. Guess this is why I most of the clues on my first watch (although I didn't know about this list back then) and told my friends "Look at the red lamps!! They've got to mean stuff!!" but they replied I was overthinking :D
The David lynch rabbit hole is well worth going down. Lost highway is my personal favourite of his films.
I just watched Mulholland Drive yesterday! It was my first David Lynch film. At first, I didn't get the film AT ALL. It was mad confusing. Then I read this Radio Times article explaining the movie and all I can say is... what in the Silent Hill lol.
The symbolism heavily reminds me of what you'd see in the Silent Hill games. My newfound understanding significantly deepened my appreciation for the movie.
Coincidentally, I found a Silent Hill 2 song title that (kinda) spoils Diane/Betty's story: Overdose Delusion.
Spooky, just re-watched Mulholland Drive for the X time today.
Synchronicity at work? Or maybe we've gone into the deeper enigmatic blue box. But how did the key come to be? Silencio...
Great Video Max... Mind Blown!
...now for The Lost Highway!
i also think the the ending scene is supposed to be the cops arriving to arrest her. The flashing lights look like police lights, and they coincide with the screaming sounds, that sound like sirens. Also, the neighbour does mention that two detectives were looking for her.
The man at winkies, Dan, was probably a detective or was the hit man’s boss turned informant. So many possibilities in this film as in real life.
The scene where Camilla and Betty discover the body in the apartment was so gut wrenching the first time I watched it. Lynch really is a master of building a sense of suspense.
For years I tried to analyze this movie since I liked but planted me so many questions but it was a complete failure to me but this analisys man.. awesome. A well good job Max :) !
Thanks to this video I am going to be viewing Mulholland Drive through a COMPLETELY different lens the next time I watch it, as the first time I went in blind and came out not quite sure how to put together the pieces of the puzzle.
Synchronicity I was talking about this yesterday wow and tried to explain the story to some one
Lol
Excellent work as usual.
Thank you, sir.
This is a fantastic and concise analysis of this amazing movie.
Ohhhgg that's like one of my favorite movies maaaan
15:02 that devil of Lynch did it again!, Rita/Camilla siting on the bed while Bettie enters, its like, portraited on the closet door. I dont know or care if it has meaning, but boy, that aesthetic and framing is on point!
Dude, this channel is awesomeness, every video I've watched! Been subbed only a week or so but, man oh man am I very intrigued by this mans content! Bravo! Mwah! Love your work daaaaaarling, really do lol.
I've always enjoyed this film, but I feel like I've never really understood it fully until now, thank you so very much for such a chilling explanation/analysis video. 😀
You do get surrealism after all Max! 😅
that one coffee cup has a vague 'SoS' on it but my eyes may be blurry I did just wake up
This! i interpreted that innocuous design as SOS a.k.a Save Our Souls. chilling!
Finally an analysis that makes sense.
The analysis by Twin Perfect is the most complete and my favourite
Don't care what anyone says.. I always think Diana and camelia are the same person. And she became camelia for the part. Slept with the director for the part. But he didn't give it too her... she wanted to kill that part of herself camelia for what she become.losing her innocents from when she first came to Hollywood..
I think you're right. I think the real Camilla is the blonde.
Watch the analysis by Twin Perfect. He agrees they are the same, and goes into a lot of detail.
Love this! Am currently in preparation for a theater role and this helps me see a more subtle yet obscure perspective on my character. Thank you Max! 😁👍
Just saw this film for the 5th time hoping I might finally piece it together. Suprisingly, some if it did start to fall into place but my questions still vastly outnumbered any answers I had gleaned. Hence, I searched the net and found this. Wow.... I had about 10% of this and I'm probably flattering myself with that estimate.... my personal male version of Betty trying to pretend I'm smarter than I am. In my defence, I doubt there's a single person on the planet that doesn't have an alter ego which flatters their true selves. Not owning a dvd of this film I was therefore unaware of the 10 clues. In truth, I would still have been baffled. I would therefore like to thank you for this excellent and insighful explanation which has greatly helped me to appreciate the films nuances and depth. The next time I see it will be with new eyes and thusly, a different experience.
Even Diane’s “reality” is a memory and some of the minute details are warped because memories always have loopholes
My take (abbreviated): The SOS clearly printed on the coffee cup is a huge clue. The deed isn't the murder, it's her acceptance of using the casting couch to get her career launched. The secret shortcut to the party. Diane IS the casting couch, she's a metaphor. The murder isn't a real murder, it's Diane killing or accepting using the casting couch to get ahead. If you live in Hollywood, Winkie's is literally Denny's on Sunset, where arrangements might actually go down. The cowboy is fate, or luck-- another metaphor. Notice when Camilla kisses Camilla, when she leaves who walks the other way in the hall? The cowboy. To me, blue doesn't represent truth, blue is the secret of the casting couch system. The character behind Winkies is the dirty Hollywood holding it's nasty secret. What I think Lynch did here was make a movie that the studios would have never green lit, had they known what it was about-- and he got Universal to distribute it. The movie is a warning. It foreshadows what came to light 15 years later. This casting couch system is a horror, a plague. It's prostitution (red light) and Lynch found it reprehensible. This was his abstract way of telling the story.
Excellent video man
Wow. This was another brilliant analysis of a brilliant movie from the most brilliant youtuber ever! Bien joué, Max! #allezlesjaunes 😁💛🙏🏻🌊🧜🏼♀️💙
Awesome analysis, Lynch is a genius and I love your interpretations of his work.
i feel apart from 'twin perfect's' analysis, yours is by FAR the best and most accurate
yeahhh best Lynch Movie and Max Derrat anaylsed it! You made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i hear SH music, what a combination.
YES!!! You are the best max!
@19:12 - Bonnie Aarons plays The Nun in The Conjuring horror movie universe. What an excellent actor!
No freakin way!!! This movie in my head for couple of days now
Ayy, one of my fav movies😋.
Also played silent hill 2 recently, and noticed that it was inspired by Blue Velvet, which was pretty awesome!
AMAZING EXPLANATION ABOUT THIS FILM
The guy spitting up the espresso is an association, Diane was drinking coffee during the traumatic party, so she associates the taste of coffee/espresso with feelings of intense disgust. In the dream space, every character represents an aspect of Diane.
To this day I still can’t believe this insert exists. It’s probably the least Lynchian thing David Lynch has ever done, and maybe that was his point. It also helps to understand that almost all of his movies are some type of an underlying critique on Hollywood and the “Hollywood machine” in some way, shape, or form. His movies have so many layers, and I love the fact that there is NO wrong way to understand his films. Whatever you get out of them is correct.
You should do Vanilla Sky!!! That movie totally blew my mind... I like your channel Max, your Aion series changed my life.
Alright, someone help me with this one.
Just last night, before this video was released, I had a dream that I was obliterated by a witch.
I walked up a set of stairs and entered the door on the left, and reality began to break down. I never saw the witch, but I felt her malevolence as I came undone, dissolving with the room around me.
I reappeared in the past and my memory of the event was erased. The dream carried on as it did before and again I came upon the door to this witch room. The memory of what happened last time flooded back into my mind and struck me with terror. I tried to enter the room, but when reality began to unwind like last time I ran. I left the house and tried to get out of the neighborhood, but the whole time I felt the witch's malevolent presence watching me.
Maybe you feel like you're stuck in a pattern of events in your life and you or someone near you doesn't seem to learn from this pattern? Interesting dream, sounds intense!
Oh boy your gonna have a field day with twin peaks and inland empire
Funny that you uploaded this video recently and I just found it even being a long time subscriber, but anyways, I say it’s funny because I just had a serious of dreams that I could barely remember, and one of them had me very angry at family members that I haven’t seen in a long time and I was stuck with 2 of them and I needed medication, but they weren’t taking me to get it, and they were supposed to take me, but they were stalling a lot of time and just having fun at the location that we were stuck at, and I was angry because I wanted to go because I needed my medication.
Then later on in one of the other dreams, I was having physical battles with weapons against some of those family members that I haven’t seen in a long time, and I was so damn angry at them in the dream, fighting with strong intent to kill them.
Dreams are so damn weird.
Most interesting, like always! Cool Bonnie Aarons appeared there! She's the Nun, Valak from _The Conjuring 2!_ Maybe they got inspired to casting Bonnie as the Nunc from this movie... Definitely looks scary! Thanks.
Dreams are all about suggestions:
In the most ironical scene of movie history: the coffee scene Adams manager tells him, the director(!) this at the beginning:
"See Adam there're some suggestions they're to be brought forward. I know you said you would entertain suggestions. And that's all anybody here asking you to do."
All the acting, the scenes, the images, the words, even Lynch own comments (so called clues...recommandations) are highly suggestive.
See the marvellous scene with the cowboy, the genius, almost sarcastic, scene of the audition. Indeed its a dark movie about making a movie.
It's a nightmare.
Lynch's Mulholland Drive is an absolute masterpiece of Art.
This movie scared me so much. I couldn’t sleep in the dark for a week and had really weird dreams that scared me.
The fact that it's robes and dresses that's red is to me the bigger hint. It's draped and flowing look is not so subtlety reminiscent of cinema curtains. Suggesting that like a movie, it's something made up or fake. If it weren't already very obvious these kind of curtains feature heavily in the Silencio scene.
The "10 clues" is such a bizarre thing to me. Compared to some of his work, I feel like Mulholland Drive is one of his films that the viewer would need the least help with. Still awesome that it exists, but we could have used something like that for Lost Highway or Inland Empire!
+1, Commenting for your algo. Also, good shit on taking a risk (to your monetization/view count/content and all that stressful content creator necessary evil) in doing a video covering something off the beaten path. Good form. It's always good to do something cause you enjoy it too, and I empathize with ya how it can be a constant sustainability pull to keep doing the bread and butter that pulls in income. You rock. Thanks for the risk.
I'd love for a video on Twin Peaks!
I maybe wrong about this, but I'm almost positive that at the party scene we hear Adam Kesher and someone off screen speaking Spanish for a moment. At first, I thought it was Italian, but I heard the word "nunca," which is Spanish for never. In Italian, never is mai. It's at the party scene that Diane starts crying over Camilla. If it was indeed Spanish that we were hearing, that would tie into the song Crying by Roy Orbison being sung in Spanish at Club Silencio.
Mulholland Drive i can understand all day, but Inland Empire, well that Blue Whale is on a whole other level ill never be able to reach.
What are we looking at here? What is the arrow showing? 18:18
Why is it that everything is becoming either an Eva refrence or a David lynch refrence in my life. Why are they slowly overlapping more and not.
We live inside a dream
When i look/listen at this video the only thing i can think of is the dream journal that i have written and nothing that i written down makes sense but i`m so desperate to know what they mean and want to talk about it to people
Love your videos, although.. I wish they were longer
Hey Max, you should check out Under the Silver Lake, it has such wonderful symbolism and hidden meanings. I'm sure you'd love it.
Your videos are amazing
Some dreams definietly have some meaning. Once I dreamt of a lifeless but unharmed woman's body. She was naked, on an autopsy table. I stabbed a knife ih her side, then I woke up to the sharp feeling in my side.
Another one, that was more on the nose, that I stood before a mirror. My hair got longer, my face changed, my lips got red with lipstick, and my nails grow longer and got red nail polish on them.
These were years ago, and l learned that Im transgender like 8 or 9 months ago.
In a more abstract dream of mine, I flew through the cosmos, and through a star. That star wasn't just a ball of hot plasma tho. As I got closer it opened up to be a tunnel and when I gone through, it closed behind me to be a sphere again. Since then I think that if you were to find a hole in reality, or some sort of portal, that would look like a sphere turning into a tunnel, turning into a sphere again behind you.
I don't believe that these sort of things exist, and I don't know if they do or do not. I can only be honest about my ignorance, and that's how I am with spiritual stuff too. But my opinion is, that consciousness is a mere byproduct of intellect, and it only comes from our brains. Knowing evolution, it makes more sense than us developing a transceiver of some sort of god or a cosmic unconscious. And synchronicity is just cognitive bias at work. Even if ther's a little chance of happening something so specific, you don't label your memories of something specific NOT happening as such. So you don't have enough perspective.
Max Derrat, I found your channel because the Tool videos, and I learned a lot about mysticism. There's differences between our opinions and Im thankful for the chance to show you, and your audience my thoughts. Keep up the good work
The inclusion of the ambient tracks from the Limbo score fit perfectly. There are a few others like Yumi Nikki and Silent Hill 2, but Limbo is truly one of those games that I could compare to an art film masterwork, that transcends the traditional gameplay structure in favour of interactive/immersive narrative storytelling.
*“Yo! This double Baconator is straight up fire dawg!”* 🍔
14:47 I’m noticing that the dream world is always in the 50s and her reality seems like modern day.
I always thought that the dream happened before she found the key.
Nice analysis.. I think the film is a cautionary tale for naive actresses who chase illusionary desires and end up losing their sanity in the process.
Diane does not likely know the words to Cryin' in Spanish, nor the other Spanish and French spoken in the Silencio scene and she's not the one who looks into the box, and it is of tremendous importance that the person having the dream be the one who looks into the box and sees the darkness.
Watching this, it seems to me there are also parallels with The Wizard of Oz. I think The Bum reminded me of the wicked witch, and something about the colour clues reminded me of the yellow brick road and the emerald city. Not to mention the dream aspect and reality not being what it appears to be on the surface. I might have to watch Mulholland Drive and delve a little deeper!
And there's a bizarre synchronicity with all of that and my own existence right now that I can't even begin to understand. I'll just say that Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, which starts with the repetition of the word jitterbug, has been in my head an awful lot lately.
Betty's from Ontario! I wonder what the significance of that is. Are we the Kansas of Kanada? 😄
im sure i heard somewhere that lynch adores the wizard of oz so its definitely a strong probability
Mulholland drive + Hotel California = Hollywood
Also Notice....
17:22 Disappearing Tear of Camila ....
Max, you really really need to play Darkwood and give us your take on the story. There are many people (and I agree with them) that connect it with David Lynch, Silent Hill and Roadside Picnic, so at least the first two should really be something down your alley. It could also have something to do with the Heart of Darkness, after all, all roads lead deeper into the woods (but it's up to you to decide if that's true). Anyway, don't rush, I do not mean to compel you, take your time :)
Stay in good health and keep up the good work!
Can't help but notice some of the parallels with Perfect Blue. I like to think it could have inspired Lynch to re-purpose the archetype as a way of telling Hollywood's dark secrets. Inland Empire also has what appear to be callbacks to this idea he elaborated on so beautifully in Mulholland. The man has been to many film festivals so I don't rule it out. Also the possibility that any similarities are just coincidental is equally mystifying.
You should try yo dive in the abyss that is Twin Peaks.