Mulholland Drive Essay

Mulholland Drive is a prime example of postmodernism. It has many postmodern elements like pastiche and simulacrum for example. The film also takes the readymade style of the Hollywood film and adds a postmodern twist to it by making the movie only an illusion of Diane’s imagination. There is also the idea of invasion present in the film. This is seen by the fact that with Hollywood controlling our lives and shaping our dreams and the outside world invades our world so much that we just want silence. Mulholland Drive embraces postmodernism and turns what seems to be just another typical Hollywood film into a unique postmodern work.
The two aesthetics presented in the film are completely postmodern. The beginning of the film is the typical kind of Hollywood film. It is the unoriginal atheistic that has been used in countless Hollywood movies over time. It follows the similar story path to every other Hollywood film because there is a young, naïve girl from outside of Hollywood who comes to make it big in Hollywood. It is essentially a readymade style of film. It is the same story, but with different characters and a slight change to the events in the film.
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It is seen when, over time, Diane starts to lose more and more of herself. She does this by entering Hollywood and taking on the role of the actress. By doing this, she gives up her own identity in place of the part that she is playing. Then she continues to lose more of herself by giving her heart and affection to Camilla. Her emotional stability starts to be under the control of Camilla. She then loses total control and goes into a spiral. She gives even more away to drugs and neglect of herself. She loses her mind when she thinks that it is acceptable to kill Camilla rather than move on from her. When she dies, she allows her subject to die at the hands of others and she becomes a hollow subject who no longer has