Mulholland Drive Audio Commentary

Mulholland Drive competed with Memento for the illustrious honor of Most Talked About Film of 2001. But even more so than Christopher Nolan's time-bending existential thriller, Mulholland Drive proved to be a difficult subject to capture on the page. Director David Lynch's symbols, allusions and mind-warping structure are shown in the film come at you quickly and so peripherally that it can be hard to be sure just what you saw, and harder still to recall it well enough to piece it all together afterward.

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But, as Flak writer Andy Ross said in his original piece on the film, "the filmmakers clearly went to great trouble to give Mulholland Drive a logical, complex structure, and giving up on the search for that structure does the film a disservice." As an aid to putting it all together, Flak has provided an mp3 audio commentary for the film. While we don't lay claim to the be-all, end-all explanation to the film, the commentary attempts to not only reconstruct the narrative and crack the symbology (just what it is the blue box?) but also get into why the movie is such an emotionally devastating work of art.