I think I've mainly figured out Mulholland Drive (beware of spoilers?!)

[S.A.A.D.]

This is how I interrupt the way the movie is suppose to be.

At the start,Camilla is dead and goes in fantasy land,Diane is dead already and is in fantasy land too. They both fantasize of themselves as new people. The end is the start,Diane kills herself with her dreams in reality going up in smoke after the box falls on the ground because she is not alive in the real world,if I have this right also the box opening on the floor when it dropped was a metaphor of her reality being destroyed. Camilla's alternate character comes after Diane's alternate character and both form a relationship slowly and do things. Betty and Camilla's alternate selves aren't aware that they are dead.

Discuss if you feel like it or whatever.

 

[xwolverine2]

10 years later... lol

 

[childeroland]

I think the first half of the film is Betty/Diane's dream of how she wish her time in Hollywood had gone. After the theater we get what really happened--Betty was rejected for the part that made dream-Diane famous and her lover Rita dumped her for Camilla, for which she had Rita murdered. The subsequent guilt of that, symbolized by those two old people from the blue box, drives her to commit suicide.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Any of these theories can be correct. I don't think Lynch has one definite interpretation. It can be interpreted in many ways.

 

[Laderlappen]

Basically the first part of the film is a dream of Naomi Watts character in the 2nd part of the film, and everything in the 2nd part of the film takes place before the dream except for the beginning and end of the 2nd part of the film which takes place after the dream. Thats the theory I believe.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Screw Mulholland Drive. I want someone to explain Lost Highway to my arse.

 

[Naked Shia]

Lost Highway is kinda close to mulholland drive, but not that close. I believe one of the theory is that he did kill his wife and is waiting on death row. he imagine a reality where he is Pete, an innocent boy, seduced by the beautiful femme fatale. He's the one who was seduced, and she's bad woman. and everyone wants to set him up. which is basically how the protagonist see shimself. Instead of considerinf himself a murderer, he thinks he's a victim. The film ends with his execution on the eletric chair, which explains the distortion of his face and his screams.

 

[The Endless]

Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway are about the effects of our conscious minds in the "real world" on our subconscious minds in the "dream world" i believe. How what happens in real life effects our dreams.

Now Inland Empire... that still baffles me to this day lol.

 

[Naked Shia]

I should rewatch Inland Empire. I've only seen it once, and I think it's harder to analyze than those two.

 

[Tanin]

Of all the odd films I've seen Eraserhead just made me wish I was on drugs.

I mean MD and LH at least made some sense to me.

 

[Naked Shia]

Eraserhead is, imo, mostly about the fear of becoming a father, the fear of living a boring, unextraordinary life, the fear of disappearing in an inhumane system (very kafkaian in that regard), as seen with the use of the town.

But not much happens, unlike those two movies, and it can get tedious to watch because of that.