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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5060034577904 Format: Anamorphic, Box set, PAL, Special Edition Label: Optimum Home Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: March 12, 2007 Running Time: 141 minutes Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Dreams and nightmaresA truly astonishing film from David Lynch. This film is in two distinct parts, it is the 'understanding' of these parts that will help in following the narrative. This is just my opinion and many will argue that the film is not supposed to be understood in any one particular way. I feel the first part is a dream/fantasy world created by Naomi Watts, when she appears later in the film, in the second chapter, this is her life in 'reality'. I could go on a lot more about this but there are many other elements to Mulholland Drive. The main male actor (Justin Theroux) is a film director trying to cast his new project. But he is under pressure from the studios, portrayed as mafia-type gangsters, who want him to cast a particular girl in the main role. He resists this pressure and finds himself stripped of everything he owns. His mind is eventually changed by the mysterious 'Cowboy'. My favourite scene is the bungling hitman. Accidently killing two extra people whilst trying to do his job. Mulholland Drive has so many elements to it, it is hard to say for sure what it is about and who is doing what and why. Some have said it is two parrallel universe's happening at the same time, occasionally crossing paths with each other! Which ever way you look at it, it is a brilliant peice of film making. Similar to the Mona Lisa, the more you look at it, the less you know. High art. Genius. Rating: - the best version of mulholland drive currently available, 2007contrary to what another review has said here, i do think this edition is worth upgrading for. i did, and i'm very happy if like me you are as drawn to a dvd's packaging as well as its contents then this dvd is well worth owning. the cover artwork is far better than other releases and you get a cool plastic slip case also inside you get a lengthy 24 page booklet on the film/lynch, as well as some pointers to clues in the movie i even liked lynchs joke at choosing random chapter selections 'approved' by the director. as for the movie.. you can decide but lynch certainly hasn't sold out over the years. and thats a rare thing. this is a fabulous dvd package and i urge you to buy it, and if you own and love the movie then upgrade for sure Rating: - Modernist, Jungian etc.This special edition of Mulholland Drive is probably not going to offer much to hard-core Mulholland Drivinians but to people who are not in possession of a dvd version of this dandy film this is a must buy. The new features are not so enlightening in the end, the interviews are not very insightful and the actors are somewhat gushing in their reverence of Lynch without really articulating anything of particular interest. Still, it is the film that is the point. I like this film very much, I'm not sure if it really makes sense but I don't think it is necessarily supposed to. From the interviews with Lynch on this special edition dvd it is not clear that he has or had a clear vision of what this film is about - it appears to have been an organic process that is more or less open to cohesive interpretation. I don't think clarity or coherence is necessarily a weakness however, as Watts suggests in her interview, adult viewers, generally, don't want to be spoon-fed the plot details - it is much more satisfying to work out what is going on and be able to offer various different assessments of what that is. Ultimately such a film is liable to tell us something of our own fears and stage of development in life as we attempt to apprehend a thread. The central themes revolve around identity, self-delusion, lack of control. We aspire to become something better and beyond what we are and often delude ourselves into thinking that we can become more than we in reality can be. The character(s) of Betty/Diane is in an amalgam of a dream, hallucination or delusional state but it might also be seen that all the characters are figments of a dream/illusion that is not being dreamt by anyone in particular - in this film the unreality particularly pertains to the Hollywood dream factory, but it could equally apply, albeit in generally less strong measure, to all walks of life. People change and exchange roles all the time, we move to different places, different work environments, different situations and we attempt to fit in or to impose ourselves on our new situations. A measure of how successful we are in fitting in relates to the extent to which we identify to a bigger perspective at the expense of individuality. Constraints on such success are often beyond our control, we rationalize our existence and lie a little to ourselves in order to fit in to the new 'objectified' world that we perceive that is ultimately illusory...the 'wahn' - an emergent higher order perception that exists only within the confounds of the particular environment. Sometimes things happen that break us out of this 'wahn', this illusion, and we become self-aware - that is we perceive how different we are and in what ways we do not fit in... our perception of the illusory world becomes internalized and we thus have, and simultaneously question, our individual identity. The characters in Mulholland Drive, at different stages in the film, exhibit loss of such individual identity. 'Rita' does not know who she is but aptly labels herself with the first name of a famous actress, her confident character Camilla Rhodes in the latter third of the film is really just a product manufactured by Hollywood, she has found her place at the expense of her sense of self. Betty is a confident and independent character aspiring to be a part of the Hollywood dream. When, in the latter third, she becomes Diane, it is not clear if her life as Betty was a dream or perhaps a somewhat glossed sense of herself as confident newby apt to fit into Hollywood but whose ultimate frustration at not being accepted by Hollywood led to pained internalized perception of the world - Diane possibly being a new name that she chooses in order to fit in but without success. Adam Kescher fits in by accepting his lack of identity in the film project over which he thought he originally had some control - he becomes another product of Hollywood who loses interest in artistic integrity as an expression of individual identity. His sense of self becomes occluded in the 'wahn', individual reality drowned by an externalized bigger re-presentation of the world imposed by the Hollywood dream factory and commercial interests. Essentially we see dreams and aspirations of fitting into some bigger picture soaking up individual identity and control. This is how I identify with the film. I think it is one thread but I don't pretend to offer a definitive interpretation of a film which probably does not yield this. The use of music and cinematography speaks to us at the level of the subconscious: the strangely spooky black monster, the clairvoyant woman, the club silencio - all evocative and seemingly demonstrative of our fears relating to lack of both self-knowledge or and 'external reality'. Rating:  - If this film has a point, I don't get itI neither enjoyed nor understood this film. If there was a plot, I never fully grasped it. I didn't identify with any of the characters or particularly care what happened to them. The settings weren't aesthetically beautiful or interesting, nor was the script funny or witty. So I assumed the film must be making a profound point about something and I struggled through to the end, expecting to be rewarded for my effort. I wasn't - nothing became any clearer and if the director did have a point, I didn't get it. Given that the film neither entertained nor enlightened me, I consider watching it to have been a complete waste of my time. Rating: - *Genius*Mulholland Drive is I have to say one of my most favoured Lynch films and is a must have for all collectors of DVDs from this particular director. The plot is amazingly complex and Lynch manages to perfectly portray a dream like/nightmarish psyche of which his films are well known for. I would recomend this film to anyone who like Lynch's work the only thing I do have to say is watch it yourself first and try and decipher the plot without looking up explanations on the internet as it truly will blow your mind away. I can guarentee by the end of watching this film you will be utterly confused but will want to watch it again almost immediately. This film goes hand in hand with Lynch's newest monster 'Inland Empire' which will be released shortly on DVD. Lynch has a brilliant mind!!!  Try searching the Internet for "Mulholland Drive - Special Edition [2001]" or Ebay for "Mulholland Drive - Special Edition [2001]". 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