David Lynch's Mulholland Drive competed with Memento for the illustrious honor of Most Talked About Film of 2001. But even more so than Christopher Nolan's time-bending existential thriller, Mulholland Drive proved to be a difficult subject to capture on the page. The movie's symbols, allusions and mind-warping structure come at you so quickly and, sometimes, peripherally that it can be hard to be sure just what you saw, and harder still to recall it well enough to piece it all together afterward.

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The movie's alleged incomprehensibility has been used as Exhibit A by its detractors, and it's been praised in equal measure by some of its most fervent fans. But, as Flak writer Andy Ross said in his original piece on the film, "the filmmakers clearly went to great trouble to give Mulholland Drive a logical, complex structure, and giving up on the search for that structure does the film a disservice." As an aid to putting it all together, Flak offers an mp3 audio commentary for the film. It's not concerned simply with reconstructing the narrative; the Flak commentators hold court on the movie's themes and symbols, craft and artistry. It's the audio track you wish the DVD had included, but didn't.

Why didn't the DVD include commentary? Because Lynch doesn't want to explain the film — and hearing an artist tell you exactly what's on his mind can be terribly reductive. This commentary doesn't seek to reduce the film, either; it poses as many questions as it might answer, in an effort not to quash discussion of the film, but to encourage it.

But that's not intended to sound like a loophole to justify elements we can't explain. We hope you'll find our commentary complete — and we'll even tell you about the blue box.