Mulholland Doctor

The Club Silencio scene is an all time favourite

i legitimately got so uncomfortable at the dream sequence when the guy confronts his fear behind the restaurant

That movie is something to do with movies/people telling you what’s going to happen, walking you through it, but you don’t believe it even as it’s happening. Something like that happens like 5 times, where characters explicitly say what’s going on but characters still act like they’re experiencing it for the first time or that they weren’t told what’s going on. Or the lines between acting and reality will blur.

Like the cowboy gives prophecy that’s accurate, the dream sequence diner guy explicitly lays out the scary thing that will happen but it happens anyway and it’s still scary, or the no hay banda guy who quite clearly tells everyone there’s no band, there’s no real singing, and everything’s an illusion. Then the lady on stage is revealed to be lip syncing and it feels like a betrayal somehow, even if you were told it was fake from the beginning.

It’s something something about the Hollywood movie industry being horrible and everyone acting like that’s such a shock even though everyone knows it. Or something to do with how much emotion we put into movies, while knowing they aren’t real. Also Lynch claims to not put symbolic meaning into his films, but who knows.

Suspension of disbelief, that’s the phrase I was trying to remember. That movie is an exercise in playing around with suspension of disbelief.

I see why people like that movie but I hate it

It’s weird and I didn’t understand it and there’s a hobo with a magical cube and a couple of decaying old people and she cried while she masturbated