MULHOLLAND DRIVE

Starring Laura Harring, Naomi Watts and Justin Theroux

Directed by David Lynch

Playing at Pleasant Street Theatre

David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive is indulgent abstraction. It is a pastiche

of scenes originally shot for a television pilot – Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” was

one of the most popular if misunderstood television adventures ever – which

horrified ABC television when it was first screened. Left with his remnants,

Lynch began to weave.

He started with disparate images: a horrific car crash, confused

detectives, a man horrified by a dream in a diner, a woman entering Los

Angeles for the first time. She is the main character, Naomi Watts’ Betty

Elms, an aspiring Canadian actress. He enmeshes her in a cold Los Angeles.

He surrounds her with strange characters – Justin Theroux’s Adam Kesher, an

ego-driven movie director, and Laura Harring’s Rita, the amnesiac car-crash

victim – and then he sets her free on a path that leads to his ultimate

destination.

Using Betty’s naivet