Collaboration - Non-Linear Storytelling - Mulholland Drive

(Mulholland Drive, 2001)

Non-Linear Methods:

Chronicle - The main dream of Mulholland Drive is linear in a way. It does follow events forward, but switches between different characters perspectives. Then as soon as we're out of Diane's dream, things get muddled quickly.

Zig Zag - The narrative jumps between different perspectives, the "main story" of Rita and Betty, the dilemma of the director Adam and at the end Diane's perspective as she becomes more and more upset about what happened to her.

Analepsis, Prolepsis and Achrony - These 3 tie in with each other, as we're not sure which events in the end are flashbacks or flash forwards, or in which order the Analepsis and Prolepsis take place. Therefore as the events become more random, Achrony takes over.

Storytelling Devices:

Framing - The main story takes place inside of Diane's Dream.

Twist - The twist is that everything with Betty and Rita was a dream, something Diane was making up as an ideal scenario.

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Images:

Mulholland Drive Poster. (2001). [image] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland_Drive_(film)#/media/File:Mulholland.png [Accessed 16 Nov. 2018].

Perspectives - 5 Ways that Mulholland Drive is Postmodern

1. Mulholland Drive features references to other genres, including the Cowboy character who is from westerns and is extremely stereotypical of the genre.

2. The plot of this film is non-linear and it jumps between different realities, time periods and characters. 

3. Continuing from the last point, it is also fragmentary. When we find out that Bettys world was a dream, the events of the film in Dianes reality start to feel disconnected.

4. The theater scene contains Fabulation, its outright stated when the owner of the club says "Its all in your imagination". He is literally telling us that this sequence is not real, and everything in the movie that follows proves that. The dream Betty is in isn't real either, but rather a world dreamt up by Dianne.

5. Bettys view of Hollywood is pastiche. She views it as a magical world where stars are born, however when we're out of the dream and back in Dianes reality we are shown the opposite. Both of these views are shown in Hollywood movies, however one more so than others.