10 Strangest Endings In Movie History

2. Mulholland Drive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96R9MG0DxLc Like Donnie Darko, trying to make sense of Mulholland Drive is a Herculean feat in of itself. The first half of the film is a pretty standard film noir story, with an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) trying to help an amnesiac (Laura Harring) recover her memory. Hot lesbian make-out sessions ensue, and slowly reality begins to warp; they visit a club called Silencio, and outside a demonic man opens a blue box which somehow causes little old people to show up in Watts' apartment (some have theorised they are her parents). The real kicker comes at the very end, though; seemingly tortured by the failure of her romance with Harring's character, Watts ends up shooting herself out of despair, an exclamation point of weird that simply cannot be reconciled. The second half of the film is a mess, but a brilliant one you can't look away from; I still am not quite sure what it all means, but the great performances and dreamlike visuals make it worth the ride. I think the first half of the film is Watts' dream of what life should be like, and the second half is a tragic, mania-infused "reality", the suicide finale being a tragic end to a character lost in love and failed promise. I think. Whatever your interpretation, it's definitely damn weird.