10 Movies You Need To Watch Twice To Completely Understand

6. Mulholland Drive

David Lynch€™s kaleidoscopic rubik€™s cube Mulholland Drive already earned its badge of one of the most acclaimed films of the century just a year into it. You can tell it€™s going to be a label that will stick around. Lynch has only made one film since, the polarizing, equally confusing but less compelling Inland Empire, though it also boasts an all-time worthy performance from its leading lady. Naomi Watts stars as Betty, an ambitious actress who just arrived in Hollywood who stumbles upon Rita, played by Laura Harring, a woman suffering from amnesia. In their pursuit of her true identity, they find comfort in each other€™s company and bond romantically. However, all is not as it seems. This is just the plot on the surface, but there€™s a bigger story going on and it€™s eventually apparent that none of that ever happened and it was all in Betty€™s head. The first viewing of Mulholland Drive is bewildering. Although it has the tendency to be structured as vignettes as we occasionally visit entertaining characters on certain misadventures, such as an assassination that never ends and the terrifying subject of nightmares everywhere behind a diner. We are mostly engrossed in the story of the lost woman and if it is all indeed a dream, then what does it all mean? It needs a rewatch just to have an idea on what€™s reality or not and then a third viewing to make sense of it. The film constantly dips into dreams, hallucinations, and fantasy with the lines blurred between them. David Lynch is notorious for not offering an interpretation of his films, though he has released 10 clues to unlocking the film and popular interpretations have arisen from it.