Mulholland Drive

When I first saw this movie in film history I immediately fell in love with the ominous and confusing story. I also thought the sound was absolutely the most important factor in the film. The low frequency wind noise, or however it was created, creates all the tension in the film. This was one of those films where you look back on it and think “man I wish I had thought of that”. I'm a big fan of movies with those "what the hell" moments like 2001 and Ex Machina (great film, by the way, in case anyone hasn't seen it) and Mulholland Drive is definitely in that category. 

The scenes with Adam Kesher (the director) and Billy Ray Cyrus and the Cowboy are hilarious and completely necessary. The same can be said of the scene where the blonde guy shoots the lady in the room adjacent. These scenes capture the absurdity of dreams and how we only realize that things in dreams are weird or out of place once we’ve woken up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk990pKn7vY

The Billy Ray scene where he sleeps with Justin Theroux’s wife has excellent music. Not in a typical, musically genius sense, but the oddity and quirkiness of the music just makes the scene so absurd and funny, it just works, man. These scenes also allow for comic relief which is important because it refreshes the audience and lets us recharge the suspense batteries, so to speak. 

Since it's probably impossible to perfectly understand what David Lynch was going for with this narrative I'll refrain from trying to break it down and comprehend it. But I do think the No Hay Banda/Silencio scene says a lot about film music and films in general from a postmodernist perspective. "It is a tape recording. It is...an illusion" The point of this scene is to illustrate the disconnect between what the audience hears and sees from reality just like the dream Hollywood that Betty is living in isn't real either. Everything seen and heard in films is just an illusion and the postmodern points out this lack of fidelity in representation.