After watching a few french surrealists films that were screened last tuesday, I noticed some interesting similarities between those films and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. The main plot of L'Age D'Or simply tells the story of two lovers trying to consumate their passion but constantly find themselves interrupted by several situations. The film itself is as surreal as they come, and through this I began to notice a correlation between it and Mulholland Drive. For one, the people in both films seem very disconnected from reality, which makes each film seem as if it is in fact part of a dream. For instance, in L'Age D'Or, outside the party a man kills a young boy for what seems like no reason. The party goers come out briefly to look at the scene, then reside to go back to the party and act as if a gruesome murder did not just take place. Yet later on, the main character slaps a female at the party, and the guests quickly jump to her aid and are furious with the man. This sense of a warped reality is present in Mulholland Drive and most of David Lynch's other works as well.
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