Mulholland drive gay

David Lynch’s bizarre drama, Mulholland Drive, illustrates a metaphor for how Hollywood revels in LGBT+ tragedies by crafting the story around a fantasy within a fantasy, then dashing it against a brick wall of reality.

Mulholland Drive is, as every reviewer and academic film wag in the country knows, a complex, complicated, indecipherable, post-modern or is it post post-modern filmic questioning of either the film industry or all of life. Except for one scene. In that scene Naomi Watts and Laura Harring not only take off all their clothes, but they touch each other.

His projects featured a plethora of weird and wonderful LGBTQ+ characters who cemented his works as deeply, authentically queer, even if the filmmaker himself may not have been. Here are the highlights: The surrealist thriller Mulholland Drive is among David Lynch’s most popular and most perplexing films.

No matter how many contradictory analyses have attempted to explain what it is actually about, there is no arguing that it is a masterful depiction of LGBTQ love and desire. Naomi Watts plays dual roles which gives her the opportunity to show such dazzling range it is baffling how she was overlooked for an Oscar nomination. Betty is decisive and ambitious while Rita is reserved and dependent, or at least this is the kind of relationship Betty ideally wants them to have.

Mulholland Drive: The Consequences of Gay Silence by Kristin Grady David Lynch’s bizarre drama, Mulholland Drive, illustrates a metaphor for how Hollywood revels in LGBT+ tragedies by crafting the story around a fantasy within a fantasy, then dashing it against a brick wall of reality.

Laura Harring and Naomi Watts were the stars. A car crash survivor stumbles into Hollywood with a blue key, a bag of money, and a blank memory. Among the mysteries are a clumsy assassin, Billy Ray as a pool cleaner, and some kind of garbage monster.

Mulholland Drive is one of the most award-winning, critically beloved lesbian-themed films of all time, yet it’s rarely one celebrated by queer women. The darkly experimental neo-noir work of David Lynch was released as part of The Criterion Collection yesterday, solidifying its role in cinematic history. The new DVD/Blu-Ray edition includes on-set footage, a deleted .

Taking a second look at this critically acclaimed fan favorite against the portrait of today can keep us progressing forward. Changing the narrative means acknowledging the horrifying potential of ignoring it, and David Lynch was way ahead of the times. The symbolic weirdness characteristic to his style gives a spectacular view, you just have to climb a mountain to get there.