Mulholland Drive begins with a drive down that very street that results in a severe car accident. A woman crawls from the wreckage and makes her way to a residential neighborhood. After a series of events, she befriends a woman named Betty. Betty has come to Hollywood from Canada with dreams of becoming a movie star. The woman from the accident can’t remember her name or where she lives. She "lifts" Rita Hayworth’s first name from a movie poster and for the time being uses that. Her and Betty then set out to find her identity.

Like some other Lynch films, the storytelling can leave you somewhat dumbfounded. What I’ve told you is just the beginning of this story (if you can call it that). What happens after is a lot of plot twists and turns -- some small, others huge. As for the huge ones, once they happen you’ll begin to wonder if what you saw before is real or imagined. You will also wonder if the film makes any sense. I don’t think we’ll ever know, but I also don’t believe that’s the point.

I suspect that digging too deep and trying to interpret the story will be for nothing. In Lost Highway Lynch did an about-face midway through the film and actually changed the lead character. One moment he’s a middle-aged man in a jail cell, the next moment he’s a young teenager. Why? Many people tried to come up with plausible explanations, but Lynch’s own is the most telling. In an interview later he said he had no real reason for it, he just did it. Interpret what you want; chances are Lynch simply pulled one over on you. Or perhaps he is pulling one over on us again in the interview? Whatever the case, I think that reading too much between the lines here will leave one frustrated for no good reason.