Please explain Mulholland drive?

The Cowboy is the messenger of the Dwarf. The Dwarf is all-powerful, but has gone crazy. Once you know who the Dwarf is, everything else falls into place.
Silencio.

I'll buy the DVD soon, so I don't feel like renting it again to try and figure out who the Dwarf is. Joe, can you help me here please? I thought the Cowboy was the messenger for the old studio guy behind the glass.

I seriously doubt whether David Lynch could explain this movie, nor would I want to hear his explaination. This movie is the proverbial car wreck. In fact, I felt as if I were in a car wreck and jarred a few bolts loose. Huh? wha...
I think Lynch is a mad genius or is having (terminal) flash backs from some bad/good acid. The characters, the pacing, the dialogue is amazing and kept me on the edge of my seat.

p.s. This movie and Memento are nothing alike.

The only thing Memento and Mullholland have in common is that you need to pay attention, once you see the end of Memento and understand it, it's over. I couldn't watch it again. Mullholland is completely different in that respect, and I think if Lynch did explain it to you, he would in the way Dali explained his paintings... leaving you more confused than ever, intentionally. I like that, so watch it again. Tom

I'm in agreement with Jallen. All great art is subject to multiple interpretations. That does not necessarily mean one has to like it. Yet, it can be quite provocative - as is this film.
I live under the H of the Hollywood sign. I work in the film business as a Director of Photography on features and television shows. Mulholland Drive reminded me of a book called "Day of the Locust" by Nathaniel West (I never saw the movie). As you may know, Nathaniel West was a successful novelist, around the 1930's, who was lured to Hollywood by the studios - meaning big money - to write scripts. Yet, he fell into the same trap as F.Scott Fitzgerald. The business of Hollywood is unspeakably nasty. It respects no one. One is never sure who they can trust. To endure it, takes enormous survival skills. I'm not sure if anyone survives this town unscathed. The expression,"Hollywood Blvd.- street of broken dreams" is all too true. Anyway, Nathaniel West wrote "Day of the Locust" as a twisted fictional tribute to this twisted business and how it affects the innocents and not so innocents.
Mulholland Drive, to me, seems to mirror the surreality this actress has acquired after arriving in this town as an ingenue'. After winning the dance contest back home, she was ready to become a star. The couple that she net at the airport at the beginning of the movie - had Cassandra type grins of knowing what this innocent was about to undergo. Stardom was not to be hers.
So, I do think that this film has a great deal of 'inside Hollywood' stuff, yet, I also believe that it works quite well as an abstract mystery. Some of you
may know that this film was originally intended to be a pilot for a television series - a la "Twin Peaks". The networks rejected it so David Lynch reworked the script and shot additional footage to make it into a feature.