The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)

[David Morris]

I think Mulholland Drive is the death dream/journey of a woman in at least
three different bodies. That is a kind of deep structure, overlapping
separate identities.

On Thursday, October 31, 2013, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:

> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
>  I don't know Argento, but Lynch has deep and multi-layer substance.
>>
>
> Perhaps, and it also helps that his thematic concerns (or the conventions
> of his chosen genre in Argento's case) do
> not include butchering women in ingenious ways (although
> Roger Ebert showed himself disgusted by what Lynch put
> Isabella Rossellini through during the filming of 'Blue
> Velvet', mainly because Ebert thought the film was not
> worth such an ordeal). But how much substance is
> there really? And is substance
> necessary for a work of art to succeed? What does 'substance' mean?
>
> I am asking this seriously. I believe 'Blue Velvet' and 'Mulholland Drive'
> are masterpieces. But what would be their substance?
>
> What I admire about 'Blue Velvet' and 'Mulholland Drive'
> is in a way the same thing I admire about Argento's best
> works: how close these movies come to being filmic
> equivalents of nightmares. Not only in terms of the events depicted but in
> terms of defying logic and reason by means of their structure.
>
> Just some thoughts. I will let this rest now because I want to follow the
> group read of BE as closely as I can.
>
> Thomas
>
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