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Mulholland Drive Ending Explained

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So today we’re diving into Mulholland Drive — David Lynch’s weird, beautiful, haunting masterpiece. It’s one of those movies that stays with you for days after you watch it. You think you’ve got it figured out, and then you realize… no, you really don’t.

It starts off like this dreamy Hollywood story — a young actress, a mysterious woman with amnesia, a city full of possibility. But as it goes on, things start to shift. The details don’t line up. Time kind of folds in on itself. And by the end, you’re not sure what’s real, what’s imagined, or whose story you’ve even been watching.

That’s what makes Mulholland Drive so fascinating — it’s not really a mystery to solve, it’s more like a dream unraveling. It’s about love, guilt, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

In this episode, we’re going to break down that ending — who Diane really is, what the dream means, and how Lynch turns Hollywood itself into this strange, almost spiritual landscape of illusion and despair.

So… let’s open the box and see what’s inside. David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive


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