First, as the name suggests, Highway is the central thread of the film, appearing at the beginning, middle, and end. I started to analyze the film from the end of the film where the male protagonist was chased by the police.
The male protagonist is tracked by the police, which can be related to the plot of the old man in the middle and back of the movie being driven by the car and getting angry and beating up the young man. There is no doubt that the middle part is a dream. Anyone who has been to Mulholland Drive and who knows a little about Freudian theory should be able to see it. I tend to think that the last being tracked by the police is real, for the following reasons: 1. It coincides with the name of the film, and the core fits 2. The real scene here has caused the aforementioned plot of the old man being chased by young people in a car It is consistent, the latter is a dream, that is, a reflection of suppressed desires. The male protagonist is tracked by the police, so in the dream, he takes violent revenge and vents against the driver who is chasing after him. Here, the fragments of reality and dreams are linked, and then the analysis of other plots is carried out.
Now that it is true that he has been tracked by the police, then considering the violence of the entire film and the initial suspected wife murder scene, the murder is certain. After killing someone, the male protagonist is imprisoned, and he suffers from a painful schizophrenia in prison. , and then a young man appears, that is, the character transformed by the male protagonist. The stories of young people are all dreams. Key question: Who was killed? Is it the wife? Or an old man cheating on his wife? From the clues of the whole story, as well as the understanding of the relationship between David Fincher's other film Mulholland Drive, I tend to think that it is killing the old man. The terrifying white-faced man has been running through the movie, and is the inner demon of each of us; in the end, he helped the male protagonist to kill the old man.
The whole story can be understood in this way: 1. The male protagonist is impotent, and his wife cheats 2. The male protagonist wants to kill 3. The male protagonist has many hallucinations after having sex with his wife. With the help of the mysterious white-faced man, he kills the old man and is then taken to prison by the police. 4. Painful schizophrenia in prison, the young man's plot is his dream, in which he fulfilled his unfulfilled wish: having sex with many women (in reality he is incompetent), competing with an old man for his wife, wait wait wait. Dreams have fictional scenes and real memories. The film ends at the boundary between the final dream and reality. When you wake up, you will face electric torture, and if you don't wake up, you will face the pain of "death and the rear of the car" in the dream. In addition, the white halo in the dream is always the same as the technique in Mulholland Road, which symbolizes the dream with mysterious and psychedelic colors.
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