Monday, July 23, 2007

Great moments in cinema

Todays feature: Mulholland Drive (2001)
CUT TO: EXT. BEACHWOOD CANYON - NIGHT
Adam, in his Porsche, makes his way up the canyon.

INT. PORSCHE
Adam feeling like a fool drives up the dark, winding canyon road. As he nears the top of the canyon the residential area gives way to desert brush. The road winds steeply up to a dark dead end where an old barn and stable sit. Adam parks in a little dirt lot and walk up past the barn to the corral. His eyes grow accustomed to the dark and he.looks about. No one is around. There's only a light wind and a few twinkling stars in the sky above. Suddenly some bare bulbs hanging from the corral gate flare up. Adam hears a noise in the brightness and turns. There walking toward him into the light is the Cowboy - dressed in clean blue denim jeans, well-oiled unscuffed, beautifully engraved cowboy boots, a red embroidered ivory buttoned cowboy shirt complete with string tie. Atop the Cowboy's head is a 10 X white Stetson. The Cowboy is smiling warmly as he approaches. He stops in front of Adam and begins to speak with a true, slow Western drawl.

COWBOY
Howdy!

ADAM
Howdy to you.

COWBOY
Beautiful night.

ADAM
Yeah.

COWBOY
Sure want to thank ya for drivin' all the way up to see me from that Beverly Hills Hotel.

ADAM
No problem. What's on your mind?

COWBOY
Well now, here's a man who wants to get right to it. Kinda anxious to get to it are ya?

ADAM
Whatever.

COWBOY
A man's attitude ... a man's attitude goes some ways toward how a man's life will be. Is that somethin' you agree with?

ADAM
Sure.

COWBOY
Now... did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right?

ADAM
I agree with what you said...truly.

COWBOY
What did I say?

ADAM
That a man's attitude determines to a large extent how his life will be.

COWBOY
So since you agree I guess you could be a person who does not care about the good life.

ADAM
How's that?

COWBOY
Well, just stop for a little second and think about it. Will ya do that for me?

ADAM
Okay, I'm thinking.

COWBOY
No. You're too busy being a smart aleck to be thinkin'. Now I want ya to think and quit bein' such a smart aleck. Can ya do that for me?


What a truly outstanding movie. I watched it 3-4 times during the last 2 Weeks and everytime I see it it get's deeper and deeper. The characters haunt me at night and during the day scenes randomly pop-up to my mind. It totally challanges my perception of my own reality and forces me to question if the way I live my life is not just a twisted Moebius strip and if it is can I and should I untwist it.

Other movies watched recently:
- Lost Highway (1997): Well yeah. What can I say. It's David Lynch. Love it. Need to watch again.
- No Man's Land (2001): It's a war movie. It blew me away and challanged me quite a lot as well. Maybe more on this in another post.
- Snatch (2000): I watched it for the 3 time now and I'm still thinking: Yeah It's funny and stuff. Cool mobsters and stuff. But seriously: What a brainless peace of crap. Guy Ritchie says on the DVD that he wants to be perceived as a serious (=1) film-maker with this movie. But... this is not a serious film(=-1)... It's not hard to figure out that this leaves us with a fairly simple equation: 1-1=0.

Tomorrow I'm off to watch Transformers. Curious if the equation works out there...

posted by Yavor @ 10:56 AM