Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Mulholland Drive (search for Self Identity)

My favourite director is David Lynch, in 2003 Lynch wrote and directed a film called Mulholland Drive.
This film deals with the idea of Self Identity, searching and knowing it. For example the first three quarters of the film about how an woman gets amnesia, she ends up tagging along with an up coming actress where they both try and find out who the woman is. Then the last quarter of the film the characters kind of switch roles (in the sense of which character has the power over the other character).
Without spoiling it for other viewers im not going to give away plot twisters and etc (as its a complex film and i wouldn't like to spoil the entertainment of trying to know what happens in the film) but this happens because of the searching for identity, the first three quarters is about searching for identity and as the last quarter isn't, it still is because of the twist and the reason why the characters power switches.

I thought this was an interesting to mention, the whole idea of searching for identity and for other students who haven't seen the film but would be interested.
If you haven't seen the film, i would recommend you do but your going to need to spend some time thinking about it and watch it a few times... Its All In The Mise en scene.

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