Re:David Lynch
Mulholland Drive is great, but sometimes I wonder if Lynch is willfully obscure because he really has nothing to say other than (cough) ‘all is illusion’. The interesting thing about MD though is that it was originally made as a television pilot, and was rejected for being too Lynchian 😯 So what we see is a remarkably impressive salvaging project of an originally proposed tangential 13 part tv series. MD ends up being Lynch’s version of Sunset Boulevard, and resembles a career overview of his own Hollywood career (tropes, themes, motifs, etc). It comes a little close to being self parody if it wasnt so stark and dark.
Logan, given you’re predilection for road movies, you should check out Lost Highway if you haven’t done so already. Mulholland Drive reprises Lost Highway’s tone and approach, not to mention pivotal ‘twist’ in the road. It could even be argued that Mulholland Drive is Lost Highway lite insofar as it makes many more concessions to the audience and is much more frightening/confusing.