Mulholand Drive

Date

2001

Description

Creator of the image: David Lynch (director)
Date of the image creation: 2001
Medium of the image: Film
Person depicted: Dan as played by Patrick Fischler

The still-frame is taken from a scene early in the film Mullholland Drive in which a character named ‘Dan’ speaks with another named ‘Herb’. Dan invited Herb to a specific Winkie’s Diner on Sunset Boulevard, which was the setting for a recurrent nightmare that has been plaguing him. Dan proceeds to tell Herb about this disturbing dream, about the fear that permeates the all-American diner, and about a man behind the diner who is ‘doing it’ and somehow controlling the dream. Herb suggests that they go behind the diner to see if the man is there. Despite his manifest fear, Dan agrees to this as he sees it as the only way to ‘get rid of this god awful feeling’. In so doing, the nightmare is re-enacted, dream and reality are interlaced and Dan’s only escape from the fantasy is to collapse into unconsciousness.

Mullholland Drive is a non-linear fantasy space of distortion and dream-like incidents. It is set in the heart of Hollywood where the idyllic American dream is interwoven by an uncanny and pervasive darkness.

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