On Mulholland Road in Hollywood, a woman named Rita was in a car accident. Rita narrowly escaped death. But she completely lost her memory and stumbled to an apartment, hiding in the bushes outside the apartment. At the same time, Betty Ellmers, with bright eyes, came to LA with her dream of becoming a super movie star.

When Betty found Rita in her apartment during her menstrual period, the present situation aroused Betty's great interest and she decided to help this "unknown beauty".

So the two women began to cross the terrible sunny streets of city of angels, making strange explorations and looking for the truth. It is here that a group of thugs, a young film director, a small-headed film company executive and a mysterious figure named "cowboy" all appeared and then disappeared until there was no essential difference between "dream" and "reality".

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As one of david lynch's most satisfactory works, Mulholland Road embodies a typical "Lynch style", with unique and strong "Lynch style" vocabulary and scenes: flashing lights, neurotic narrators, mysterious people with hideous faces, and singers who have fallen on the stage are still singing loudly.

There is also a plot that harmoniously imitates film noir: a sexy woman suffering from amnesia, a tall white man wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, and the heroine directly steals the name of the classic femme fatale rita hayworth. In addition, as always, Lynch has mysteriously used many fascinating props and characters that seem to have different meanings: mysterious blue boxes, black books, strange cowboys, vagrants, unidentified huge sums in wallets, and laughing old couples.

Although the film is full of murder, car accidents, ghosts, sexual scenes, black humor and other elements, it does not belong to any type of film. This movie full of fables and metaphors can be described as Lynch's nightmare of ignoring the audience and simply showing himself.

Lynch completely disobeyed the narrative structure and internal logic of traditional movies, deliberately used many confusing techniques and metaphors to prevent the audience from distinguishing between reality and illusion, and tried to erase the dividing line between illusion and reality, making the whole movie like a nightmare that could not be awakened, playing with the audience with his unique image vocabulary and world outlook.

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