What the hell is going on?!

Join me on a quest to figure out what was going on in Muholland Drive, which throughly confused me I still throughly enjoyed. First off let me say that dude who said this movie was David Lynch's easiest film to understand... you are a liar sir! Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet was pretty straight forward, hell even Eraserhead kind of related to something (marriage, parenthood). Regardless David Lynch is the man love his stuff, and at first ill admit I was not into this movie... but as more and more time goes by I am loving it more and more. It's a movie that makes you think about it long after it's finished and makes you want to watch it again, very few movies have done that to me... Matrix, Donnie Darko, Primer come to mind.

At first I thought this movie was about a woman suffering from a head injury and nothing was making sense around her making the movie into a half reality half dream like place. But then as it progress I started to assume other possibilities such as split personality disorders or even time travel . . . that there had somehow been a rift caused by the accident that had altered reality, kind of a Final Destination thing. She should have died but didn't so now the world is skewed and mesed up.

Now after reading the everything you want to know about Muholland Dr. I have since been enlightened a bit so here is what I have concluded could be the plot line: A blonde dancer who wins a swing contest in her hometown moves to Hollywood to become an actress, she meets an attractive dark haired actress and then begin to date/hook up. The blonde woman falls in love, but the dark haired woman soon becomes bored and begins to hook up with the director of a movie they are working on together as well as other women. The blonde woman becomes enraged that she has failed as an actress, lost her innocence in Hollywood, her aunt is dead who could have helped her in the business, and that her girlfriend dumped her. She proceeds to hire a hitman to kill the dark haired woman. But after she does this she fantasizes about the dark haired woman surviving the hit and losing her memory and falling back in love with the blonde haired woman all over again, also that owners of the film company force the director to cast her as the new lead in the movie, and the director's life becomes shit. This leads the blonde woman to go crazy as she is haunted by characters in her imaginary story thus leading her to kill herself.

A couple of things I didn't understand hopefully someone could explain. . . who were the guys that talk about dreams at the diner, do they have significance in this? How about when the crash is referred to when the hitman kills the three people? Wouldn't the crash be after this scene because he has the black book at the diner when the blonde woman hires the hit? What is in that book he takes? Who is the spanish singer? Who is the creepy guy in the wheelchair? What is the key and box? Is the key real, if so what does it do? What is the monster that pops out every once and awhile? Who is the other girl who comes and grabs her stuff from the blonde woman's apartment? Who is the crazy lady that tells the dark haired woman shes in danger? Why do the old people haunt her and not her ex girlfriend or the director? Who is the dead body in they find in the imaginary apartment? Why does the director have a golf club?

This movie is awesome in that there is so much left open and yet it feels like the pieces should fall into place if done properly I feel as if I need to watch this movie a few more times to get it closer to it true meaning.

In class the professor told us to think of it like an infinity symbol which is true in that the first half of the movie is this circle of disillusion and the second another circle of real life realization and both collide and continue.  I think this movie portrays Hollywood quite well because it shows what people think Hollywood is like or the myths and legends about it and how friendly and world of opportunity it is. Yet in reality it is a very harsh and not so glamours lifestyle that often can destroy people's lives and minds. The audition sequence for example, normally the actresses do not get dressed up and perform a song in a scene right off the bat but in the blonde woman's made up illusion of her Hollywood they do, and surprise surprise the director is captivated by her. I think this movie also speaks wonders on love, often times in relationships one partner will become instantly obessed and madly in love with the other person, when the other person simply is having fun. Thus the psycho exs, which the blonde woman obviously becomes. I wonder if she did even order the hit on the dark haired woman or if that whole ordeal was also made up in her mind?

Please comment and throw me a lifedraft here people!