Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive was a terrific movie that had a lot of jump scares and kept you on your toes the entire time. I suggest you don’t watch this before bed as I did or you wont get much sleep. There is such a feeling of dread throughout the entire movie as well. The film represents how things aren’t scary on the surface but there is an invisible horror that kills you deep inside and causing serious anxiety. The movie gives a real interpretation of mental suffering and I think David Lynch did an awesome job.

The last five minutes of the film feels like something out of a Nightmare on Elm Street movie with Freddy Krueger. The lighting of the beginning of the scene is almost identical to what goes on in A Nightmare on Elm Street, it has the dark black and red lighting with the thick smoke blowing from behind Bonnie Aarons character the bum. This lighting suggests a pain or suffering as it does in the Freddy Krueger movies and even suggests a matter of feeling stuck in this horrible place. Then the scene cuts to Diane on her couch and she looks awful and seems to be struggling to keep herself awake. Then she begins hear loud knocking at the door and begins to hallucinate the old people again. As she runs away from the old people toward the bedroom it goes back and forth of shots of the old people chasing and her running. As this occurs the lighting surrounding them gives off the aura of lightning and thunder. Which suggests even more that it is almost dream like because all of this badness occurring at once could only be in a dream. Then she hits the bed and shoots herself and a big cloud of black smoke fade over the screen. Then the scene begins to fade out between several shots of betty and rita mixed in with the back drop of the city with a sad and gloomy soundtrack behind it. This suggests that the city literally takes the lives of talented young people without any remoras, because the City of Angeles thrives on innocence.

I believe the knocking on the door represents remorse trying to creep inside Dianes conscience, and it finally does. This knocking reminds her of all the people she disappointed, her failed relationship, failed career, and just all the wrong she has done. These final knocks are the ones that finally drive her over the edge to the point where she is to tormented to go on. These feelings are represented in the old people and they literally chase her to the bed and causes her to commit suicide.