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Mulholland Drive. He critics warn us that David Lynch’s new cinematic event, Mulholland Drive, is a film to be experienced. It’s brilliant, they say. Really. Just give yourself to it. Don’t expect logic, just go for the experience. So experience it. What is it in your unconscious that keeps nagging you? And then you recognize that Lynch is indeed a genius. And his genius makes Mulholland Drive preferable by far over the course. Consider the parallels: Course and movie require the same amount of mental focus, are equally confusing, require just as much post-prandial discussion. As we enter the world of the film, we see an accident that strips "Rita" of her memory. At Club Silencio, Rita and Betty find the puzzlebox that fits their key. Club Silencio is a paradox, a surreal entertainment, a self-consciously un-live cabaret that trumpets its artificiality.

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