I still remember many reactions towards the film Mulholland Drive when it came out in the theater. People were trying to explain the movie with their logic. And because they were failing they thought that the movie was a crappy one. I have heard voices saying "I saw it once, I'll never see it again." And it is so utterly disappointing to hear people say that for a movie that is meant, more than any other, for multiple screenings. Mulholland Drive is a complex movie that one time equals none. Obviously these people who said that Mulholland Drive was a crap have no emotion inside of them. They don't feel anything. Because an artistic piece is not only logical events put together to create a rational story, but it's also a beam that triggers your emotional universe. If you don't have an emotional universe and the only poetic thing that you understand is Terminator, terminating humans, then you obviously need to see a therapist.
Those people who hated Mulholland Drive would most certainly hate also Alphaville. As a matter of fact they would hate Jean-Luc Godard in general, if they ever spent some time watching a film of his. They would think that this guy was making fun of them, that he was a clown. Alphaville is a glorious example of modernism in the 60s. The surrealistic story with the cryptic dialogue and that absolutely impeccable neo-noir darkish atmosphere that Godard build in that movie are timeless. Alphaville is like entering a unique dystopian world that you feel that is totally consuming you. A difficult, brainy and utterly demanding selection that it takes your brain and squeezes it till all the valuable juices come out. In a world where the tangible and the easy prevail, films like Mulholland Drive and Alphaville are here to show us that there is always another way of understanding things.
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