Naomi Watts masterpiece was voted for one of the best movies of 21st century

In January 2025, cinema lost one of the most unique voices when David Linch was killed at the age of 78. He followed was a huge pouring of love against the director of the Maverick. Following it in social media, I noticed friends who (at least I know), I had never posted anything related to film. Lynch’s films were often classified with twisted and disturbing visions, but as a man and an artist, he really seems to have spoken to people at a deep emotional level. Perhaps this was because he was never less true to himself and represented an eccentric and generous spirit in the realm of celebrities, which is increasingly full of phoned. Perhaps this was because his dark strange reverence, hiding behind the facade of everyday life, cut out so many tired old American dreams. Regardless, everyone apparently only adored David Lynch, and one of the most glowing stars came from Naomi Watts, who worked with him on a movie often considered his masterpiece: “Mulholland Drive”.

Lynch’s tempting Neo-NOir began as a 90-minute pilot episode for a new ABC series, but the net dropped it because the disagreement of its slow rhythm, confusing storyline and fears that Laura Harring and Naomi Watts were too old for their parts. However, Linch was not lucky, and Watts creders the filmmaker on their placement on the map after she spent much of the 1990s, trying to influence Hollywood. Her role “Mulholland Drive” became one of the most Unforgettable heroes in Linch’s filmographyAnd she continued to receive two Oscar nominations (“21 grams” and “impossible”).

Discard ABC definitely didn’t hurt a lynx or a final movie. After the film’s creator shot extra scenes with extra money from Studiocanal, Mulholland Drive was well in the International Balvi Station, receiving a candidacy for Palme d’Or Cannes (where Lynch won the best director) and earning Linch, leading to Oscars. Since then, Mulholland Drive has become one of the best films of the 21st century, complementing the BBC 2016 survey and grabbing the big weapons in the 2012 Sive & Sound Rank 2012 edition. In the year 2022, things went even better (where it moved up from #28 to #8), but “Mulholland Drive” came second The New York Times 2025 Survey Of the 100 best films of the current century. Let’s take a closer look.

It is at night Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, and an elegant raven matte woman (Laura Harring), thanks to the car’s wreck, is terribly killed in the murder of the limousine. The accident leaves her with amnesia, so she is looking for refuge in the apartment. Enter Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), a bright eye -eye Wannabe actor from Ontario, who comes to Los Angeles with dreams to become a star. After the aunt loan in the apartment, Betty arrives there to take a shower to find a gloomy woman. One cannot remember who she is, the stranger takes the name of Rita from the “Gilda” poster and slips into Femme Fatale mode, when she and Betty are trying to figure out what happened to her and why. The only threads they need to follow is the cash wool and mysterious blue key in Rite’s handbag.

Betty’s first listening is great, but parallel stories indicate that something more threatening plays: we meet Bungling Hitman, a terrible figure hiding behind the dinner (one of them The biggest scary of leaps in film history) and Adam Kesher (Justin Teroux), the director of the pretty, under pressure from some of the tasteless characters to hand over an unknown actor in his film. When he refuses, the shady puppet master behind the scenes (Michael Anderson, who is well known to Linch’s fans of “twin peaks”) threatens to ruin his life unless he gets involved in their demands. Betty and Rita’s investigation also take a darker turn when they discover a young woman’s corpse, and a night visit to a strange theater reveals a box that matches the Rita Key. When they open it, everything changes and requires a much more tragic turn for Betty.

Here’s a story about Mulholland Drive fractures when Betty becomes Diana. Fighting actor Diana is jealous of her favorite Camilla (Harring Again), who has apparently used her relationship to continue her actor’s career. It’s a Lynch movie, so much an open interpretation is left, but perhaps the most attractive movie for the last 30 minutes is that the previous two hours were Diana’s dreams of Hollywood. I think some of the Lynch destroyers tend to write off their surreal touches as a strange strange strange, but here the journey to the position of dreams (or nightmares) is essential for the overall “Mulholland Drive” and its final scene for the devastating influence.

At one time “Mulholland Drive” we notice the street sign Sunset Boulevard. The two highways are approximately parallel to each other across Los Angeles, the former bend through the Hollywood mountains, while the sunset passes through the heart of Tinseltauna itself. David Lynch called “Sunset Boulevard” as one of his favorite films, and these connections are the key to your head bypassing what’s going on here. In many ways, “Mulholland Drive” is the mention of Linch in Billy Wilder’s Classic Noir.

As in the previous film, Lynch pores Hollywood as a seductive place that can reward those who make it great outside their wildest dreams. But it’s also capricious and cruel, sink that can swallow the expectations of people who are not so lucky and Always hungry after the next big thingsIn the area, many need to threaten their ideals to do this, for example, William Holden Joe’s “Sunset” and Camilla “Mulholland”. Joe eventually plays a gigolo to wash the movie star, and it is meant that Camilla is lying up.

Also, Adam’s dream version “Mulholland” is forced to compromise, but Lynch is more concerned with the fee that Hollywood can take on women. Even those who reach a star, such as Norma’s Desmonds in the movie “Sunset,” are often thrown aside for fresher faces when their youth disappears. Accordingly, the woman’s Lynch’s film constantly changes their identity, reflects each other and changes their appearance to serve everyone Hollywood wants to be at any time. When the window is open and we see the “real” story, Lynch worries us with a disturbing revelation about the crooked nature of the film industry, as acidic as the end of the “Sunset Boulevard”.

“Mulholland Drive” is a broken mirror for older Hollywood Babylon tales, while also playing the greatest hits compilation of the best moments of Lynch. The film calls for comparisons with “Blue Velvet”, “Twin Peaks” and “Lost Highway”, hitting the sweet spot directly between them; It affects the well -known blows from the first two, while offering a narrative that is easier to follow than the last one (mostly). This may be the reason why the film is considered a lynx masterpiece, marrying his signature in the incident with a story that so strongly reaches an emotional level.