Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Pulp Fiction, Memento and Mulholland Drive

Three movies that played with the sequence of frames and I am a great fan of all of them.

Pulp fiction randomizes the sequence and became popular for the experimentation.

Memento reverses the flow of the movie (although there is a storyline that goes in the right order). I guess that the point the director is making was that the world would look distorted if you see it from the main character's point of view. Throughout the movie, We are with the main character, we sympathize with him and we believe his story. But reality is very different. I would rate Memento higher than Pulp Fiction because it was not just a random sequence but there was something deeper there.

Mulholland Drive beats all of them. It is so confusing that I had to read the story on the laptop while watching the movie to stay focused. But, I think it makes a lot of sense if you see the movie as if it is a dream (and that is what it is). It has all the things that we see in our dreams:
1) distorted visualization
2) weird symbolism
3) part where the wishes come true
4) threads of reality in between
I think the director has done a great job in conveying all these things, particularly because it is not very easy to do that. I think it is the one and only movie that has even attempted to do something like this.

The thing that makes this movie the best is that the distorted visualization originates from the complicated storyline (which is a dream) and it does a great job of conveying the actual story through the visualization.

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