Theory popularization: The entire "Muholland Road" can be said to be a movie version of books such as "The Analysis of Dreams", which uses movies and pictures to explain Freund's theory. If you are familiar with these theories or if you are afraid of trouble, you can skip it first. In the following plot analysis, I will mark the theories that it depends on for the judges to compare and observe. However, in order to understand "Mulholland Road", the following theoretical support is indispensable.
Freud thought:
1. People's spiritual level is divided into consciousness, preconsciousness and subconsciousness from the shallower to the deeper. Some of people's mental activities can be noticed by ourselves. As long as we concentrate our attention, we will find that there are ideas, images or emotions constantly flowing through our hearts. This kind of mental activity that can be realized by ourselves is called consciousness. However, some instinctive impulses, suppressed desires or vitality occur unconsciously in the underlying realm. Because they are not in line with social morality and my own reason, they cannot enter the consciousness and be perceived by the individual. This kind of latent and undetectable thought Psychological activities such as ideas, desires, etc. are called subconsciousness. It is the intermediary link between the subconscious and the consciousness. Memories about events and experiences can be extracted with proper effort or attention. The human heart has a kind of checking function, that is, the human spirit will suppress those unreasonable memories and desires, let them stay in the subconscious, and make people no longer recall them, so these are the things we most easily forget. For example, we have humiliated someone, deceived someone, borrowed money and haven't paid it back, etc. However, the role of inspection will be weakened. When a person is in a coma or sleep, the role of inspection is weakened, so those latent desires will emerge and mix into consciousness to form dreams. Therefore, dreams are the fulfillment of wishes.
However, the mixing of this potential desire must be disguised, otherwise the auditing effect will still be discovered, so the dream scene will be different from the actual desire. Moreover, the less socially recognized or the desire to violate values, the more disguised and distorted.
2. Personality is divided into three parts: ego,
id , and superego: id: instinct, impulse, and desire in the subconscious constitute the id, which is the biological aspect of personality and follows the "happiness principle". Ego: Between the self and the external world, it is the psychological aspect of personality. The role of the self is to make the individual aware of his cognitive ability on the one hand; on the other hand, it makes the individual restrain and suppress the id in order to adapt to reality, following the "principle of reality." Supergo: It is the social aspect of personality. It is the "moral self" composed of "conscience" and "ego ideal". The power of the superego is to guide the self, limit the self, and follow the "ideal principle."
The id lies in seeking its own survival and seeking the satisfaction of instinctive desires, which is the necessary motive force; the superego is monitoring and controlling self-acceptance social moral standards to ensure normal interpersonal relationships; and the ego must reflect the desires of the id, and Finding a way to satisfy the desires of the id and accept the supervision of the superego, as well as reflect objective reality, analyze the conditions of reality and the situation of the self, so as to promote the internal coordination of the personality and ensure the smooth progress of interaction with the outside world. When imbalances, psychology will occur. abnormal.
3. Psychological defense mechanism is a defensive function of the self. In many cases, there will be contradictions and conflicts between the superego and the id, between the id and the reality. At this time, people will feel pain and anxiety. At this time, the self can Unconsciously, in a certain way, adjust the relationship between the two parties in a conflict to make the superego's supervision acceptable, and at the same time, the desire of the id can be satisfied in some form, thereby alleviating anxiety and eliminating pain. This is Self's psychological defense mechanism.
(1) Repression: This mechanism refers to the individual's unacceptable or threatening, painful experience and impulse, unknowingly, "consciously" exclude the role of suppression from the individual's consciousness to the subconscious.
(2) Negation: Escape psychological pain by distorting the individual’s thoughts, emotions, and feelings in a traumatic situation, or “negate” unpleasant events as if it did not happen at all to obtain temporary comfort.
(3) Retreat: When people are frustrated and unable to cope, they give up the mature attitudes and behavior patterns that they have learned, and use the naive ways to satisfy their desires in the past.
(4) Reverse: When the individual’s desires and motives are not accepted by their own consciousness or society, they are afraid that they will do it, but they are suppressed to the subconscious, and then the opposite behavior is expressed in the explicit behavior. Reverse.
(5) Rationalization: When the individual’s motivation is not fulfilled or the behavior fails to meet the social norms, try to collect some reasons that suit one’s inner needs, and give them a reasonable explanation to cover up their faults, so as to reduce the pain of anxiety And maintain self-esteem from harm. That is to create a "reasonable" explanation to explain the self-concealing harm.
(6) Sour grapes: When you cannot obtain what you are pursuing because of your lack of ability, you will devalue and attack you.
(7) Sweet lemon: In contrast to sour grapes, another self-defense mechanism is sweet lemon. This method refers to trying to convince yourself and others that what you make or own is the best choice.
(8) Prevarication: This kind of self-defense mechanism refers to arguing a person's shortcomings or failures for other reasons, and finding someone to bear his fault, and the individual's peace of mind.
(9) Ritual and offset: Whether people make mistakes intentionally or unintentionally, they will feel uneasy, especially when things involve others, causing others innocent harm and loss, they will indeed be very guilty and self-blame. If we use symbolic things and Actions to try to offset the unpleasant events that have occurred to alleviate the feeling of psychological guilt, this way is called ritual and offset.
(10) Isolation: The so-called "isolation" is to isolate part of the facts from the realm of consciousness, so as not to let oneself realize it, so as not to cause mental unhappiness. The part of personal feelings that is most often isolated is related to the facts, because such feelings can easily cause anxiety and uneasiness.
(11) Idealization: In the idealization process, the parties often overestimate certain people or certain things and things. Such an overestimated attitude can easily distort and beautify the truth of the facts, so as to be divorced from reality.
(12) Split: Some people's behaviors in life often appear contradictory and uncoordinated. And sometimes in the same period, in different environments or life categories, there will be very opposite behaviors. In psychological analysis, we can say that they are splitting their consciousness into two and adopting a split defense mechanism.
(13) Transfer: Transfer refers to the original emotions, desires or attitudes towards certain objects, which for some reason (such as not conforming to social norms or dangerous or not allowed by self-consciousness, etc.) cannot be directly expressed to their objects. And transfer it to a safer and more acceptable object to alleviate one's psychological anxiety.
(14) Fantasy: When people cannot deal with the difficulties in real life, or cannot bear some emotional distress, they leave reality temporarily, get inner peace in the fantasy world and achieve satisfaction that cannot be experienced in real life , Called "fantasy."
(15) Compensation: When an individual cannot achieve his goal due to his own physical or psychological defects, he should use other methods to compensate for these defects to reduce his anxiety and build his self-esteem, which is called compensation. Divided into positive compensation and negative compensation.
(16) Identity: "Identity" refers to an individual's identification with people who are higher than one's own status or achievement, in order to eliminate the anxiety caused by the frustration caused by the individual's inability to achieve success or satisfaction in real life.
(17) Sublimation: When some instinctive actions such as hunger, sexual desire or the internal drive of aggression are transferred to some range accepted by oneself or society, it is "sublimation".
Although not all of the above 17 items appear in "Muholland Road", they are listed together for the sake of completeness. Later, I will point out which ones are corresponding, and rely on these to analyze the back of this obscure movie one by one and discover the real facts.
Now, the appreciation of "Mulholland Road" is officially started. There have been many movies that describe dreams before, such as Akira Kurosawa's "Dream"; many movies that describe psychology, such as Martin Scorsese's "Bounded Island"; many suspense films, such as David Fincher's "The Seven Deadly Sins" . But there has never been a nightmare so complicated and magnificent in the form of video, such a weird and outstanding performance of a murder case. "Mulholland Road" is a very outstanding suspense film, no matter its technique, its story, its characters can be called a masterpiece. David Lynch is indeed a ghost.
The beginning of the film is a piece of music. Under the illusory background, there are some real people, mirror images of real people and shadows dancing. This is alluding to Freud's spiritual hierarchy theory. Namely consciousness, preconsciousness and subconsciousness (see theory popularization 1.). Then a bed began to appear, a close-up shot of a close-up shot, accompanied by the sound of sleeping breathing, and a slightly nervous moan indicating that the sleeping person is having nightmares. As a result, the entire movie below officially begins, and the entire 90% part is this long nightmare. Let's take a look at the ox to disassemble each plot in detail. There have always been many differences as to where the dreams end. Below I will list the dreams and uncertain places one by one.
1. The beginning of the shot is both the name of the movie and the street sign: "Muholland Road". The young actor brown-haired beauty was sitting in the car. The car stopped at Mulholland Road. She was surprised to ask Driver A why she stopped here. Driver A took out a gun and drove her out of the car. At this time, a car suddenly rushed into the car. Coming over and hitting their car, everyone was killed. Only the brown-haired woman survived. She stumbled to a villa. The hostess of the villa was an old woman B, who just packed her luggage and went to the villa. The woman fainted. The people behind the film company called each other to inform that the girl in the car was missing.
2. With the sound of the police sirens, the camera shifted to the Vichys restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. Young man C and old man D were sitting by the window while having a meal and chatting. C is on the right and D is on the left. The young man’s omelette and meat were left on the table without touching them, the juice and coffee were not drunk, and the old man had almost eaten them. C said that he only likes to come to this Vichys restaurant, because he had two nightmares and dreamed that it was neither day nor night in this restaurant. He was very scared and saw D standing next to the bar behind him. It was also frightened, because C could see a terrifying man through the wall, and they were all frightened by him. So C came to this store to see if he would meet the horrible person, so as to eliminate his fear. D walked to the bar first, and then they came out together to the back of the restaurant. A green slogan "Entrance" was written on the wall. Suddenly a horrible dirty man, a beggar, appeared behind the wall, so C was frightened to the ground on the spot.
3. The blonde girl Betty came to Hollywood from Ontario, Canada, eager to be an actor. On the plane, I met a kind old couple E and F. After getting off the plane, they said goodbye at the airport. The old couple kindly encouraged and blessed Betty. Then Betty was picked up by the taxi who took the initiative to take the passengers, and the old couple left in an extended car. The old couple in the car showed strange, stiff and twisted smiles.
Betty came to Hollywood's aunt's house. Aunt was the old woman B who had traveled before. Aunty is very influential in Hollywood, has a wide network of contacts, and the house is very luxurious. Betty was warmly welcomed by the caretaker (or the landlord or something). This person called herself Coco. Seeing the shit in the yard, she was very angry and didn't like pets. She told about a previous guest who kept a kangaroo in the yard Li (I was dreaming as expected). Coco's warm and thoughtful reception made Betty very pleased. Coco left after giving her the keys and told Betty to contact her if she had any needs. Betty began to admire the room. In the bathroom, through the glass, she found someone bathing in it, the brown-haired woman who had sneaked in before. The brown-haired woman lost her memory in the car accident, so she saw through the mirror the poster on the wall named herself Rita and told Betty that she had a car accident. Betty thought that Rita was a friend of her aunt, so she didn't care, and then Betty began to tell her Hollywood dream. Betty found Lita's head injury, so she hoped to find a doctor for her. Lita refused. She said that she just needed a night's sleep, so Lita fell asleep and Betty covered her with a quilt.
4. The screen turned to a tall building again. Several people in the room were talking. The young director named Adam, and his manager Robert Smith, who was on the same side of him, explained to him that he hoped that he would be able to use the new heroine when filming. The person they recommend. There were two people sitting on the side, the young Mr. Darby and an old man. Later, two people came in, Brothers Cars. They showed Adam a photo. The blond woman in the photo was Camilla Rose and asked him to choose this. Artificial new heroine. The Cars brothers are very serious and the atmosphere is very embarrassing. Darby ordered a cup of espresso for the middle-aged man in dark clothes of the Kas brothers. Everyone asked Adam to choose the person in the photo as the heroine. Adam disagreed, and the coffee was delivered in silence. When the man took a sip, I spit the coffee on the napkin because of the very picky taste. The silence was broken, and the Cass brothers threatened to deprive Adam of the power to direct the film and force him to submit. Adam left in anger and went downstairs. He saw the Cars brothers' car, so he smashed the windows, hood and lights of the car with a golf club, and then drove his roadster to escape. The Cass brothers came to see the boss behind the film company, Mr. Rocco, and told him that Adam was unwilling to change. Rocco signaled him to force him to submit.
As the boss behind the shady movie, Rocco sits on a chair in the middle of a secret room and barely moves. The house is covered with thick carpets and heavy curtains are drawn around. There is a security guard behind him, separated by glass and Communicate with the outside world and watch the situation outside through the screen on the ceiling. He barely spoke, every sentence was one or two words, and it was intermittent. Is a person completely isolated from the outside world. Gloomy and weird.
5. The scene shifted to an office, and the two men talked happily. The man G sitting behind the table has long hair, biting a toothpick, and behaving awkwardly. The standing man H smokes a cigarette. Then the two people talked about a black book on the table, a black book, "world history written by phone number" (what the hell, dreaming, so it's weird). H suddenly walked into G and took out a silent pistol and shot G, wiped off his fingerprints and disguised G's suicide scene. When the pistol escaped through the wall and hit a woman next door, the woman screamed. The killer H had no choice but to come to the next door and saw that the obese woman was only slightly injured, so he pulled her to the previous room to kill her, but she was seen by the cleaner again, but he shot the cleaner again, and the vacuum cleaner was noisy. Ming, so he broke the vacuum cleaner with a gun again. As a result, the smoke from the vacuum cleaner triggered the fire alarm. The hapless killer H hurriedly wiped off his fingerprints and escaped from the fire escape passage outside the window with a black book.
After he came out, he was eating and chatting with his two companions, a man and a woman. The woman was very ambiguous towards H, while the other man was very frivolous towards the woman. The woman asked H for a cigarette, and the other man volunteered to help her light the fire. H asked the woman It's not that you can find a white woman with black hair and perhaps a little embarrassed. The killer is probably from the film company, who is looking for the missing Rita. She promised to help him pay attention.
6. Rita woke up, Betty and her aunt talked on the phone and found out that Rita was not her friend. Aunt asked Betty to call the police, but Betty refused to prevaricate. Rita began to cry and told Betty the truth. She lost her memory after the car accident. She didn't know her identity and name. Betty and her opened the small bag that Rita brought with her, which contained a large bundle of banknotes and a handful of blue. Toy key, and Rita has no idea about it. When the two were puzzled, Rita remembered that she had been to Mulholland Road, so Betty strongly urged the two to go out and check if there had been a car accident on Mulholland Road. The two hid Rita's bag, then went out and called to confirm that there was indeed a car accident on Mulholland Road last night.
The two came to the Vichys restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, when the sign at the door that said "Entrance" turned blue. Rita sits on the left and Betty sits on the right (compare here with the previous number 2). The two found no report about the car accident in the newspaper. When the waitress came to pour the coffee, the name tag said Diane. Rita saw the name and remembered the name "Dian Selwin". She thought this was her name, so she looked up the phone book and found the phone number. Betty called this number. At this time, Betty said, "Give yourself It’s weird to call". No one answered the phone, only the voice recording, but the voice was not Lita's, but it was indeed a familiar voice. The two began to speculate about various possibilities.
7. Director Adam received a call while driving on the road, informing him that the studio had been forcibly closed, and asked him to come and have a look. Adam refused and said he was going home. When Adam returned home, because the time was different from the past, he happened to ran into his wife Rowling and a muscular man, I, who had committed adultery in bed. The two did not care about Adam. Adam was angry and poured a tin of pink paint into his wife's jewelry box, ruining all his jewelry. Then there was an argument, he was beaten up by the muscle man I very embarrassed, covered in paint, nosebleeds, and was kicked out of the house.
Later, the film company sent someone to Adam's house to find Adam. A big fat man and Adam's wife had a dispute and started fighting. Rowling and her adulterer wanted to drive the fat man away, but the fat man easily knocked him to the ground.
In a dilapidated small hotel in the city, the owner Cokey knocked on Adam's door and told him that Adam's credit card had been frozen. The bank had just sent someone to inform Adam that his bank account was out of money. Adam was surprised and paid for the accommodation in cash. But Coki said solemnly to him, "I have a responsibility to tell you, no matter where you hide, they can find you." Adam was shocked to bid farewell to Cokey, and called his female secretary Cynthia to confirm the situation. Cynthia told him that he was bankrupt, and told him that a man named Cowboy was deeply involved in this matter, and suggested that he go find this person. , Told him that the cowboy was waiting for him on the top of the canyon, and hinted that he could come to her for the night, but Adam refused (it seems that Adam also had an affair). It's weird, things are getting weird.
8. Betty and Rita found the address of Diane’s house. There was a knock on the door. There was a mysterious and strange old woman Louise dressed in black veil. She asked Betty who she was. Betty said she was Ruth. 'S niece, Louise yelled that she didn't say that. She said that some people are going to be in trouble, and some are going to be out of luck. At this time Coco appeared, and Louise complained to her that someone refused to leave in her room, hoping that Coco would go and drive that person away. Coco apologized to Betty and gave Betty the lines for the audition the next day. Leaving with Louise. But Rita seemed to be greatly frightened.
9. Adam drove to the top of the mountain gorge and saw a weird fence. The lights flashed after walking in. Sure enough, a cowboy came out. The cowboy has a stiff expression and a weird voice. He said to Adam: Attitude determines life. And let Adam stop and reflect on himself. He asked Adam to go back to work the next day. When choosing the heroine, everyone had to perform, but he had to choose the pre-determined Camilla, and the other roles were determined by the director. Finally, the cowboy said, "If you do well, you can see me again; if you do not well, you will see me twice." Then the cowboy disappeared into the darkness, and the light went out again.
10. The next morning, Betty was going to interview for a new role, and talked to Rita before leaving. Cocoa came, saw the stranger Rita, and then very unhappy to mention to Betty the prediction of Louise last night. Then Betty went out to audition. Aunt Ruth's old friends in Hollywood enthusiastically helped Betty, and Betty's audition in front of them was excellent and received unanimous praise from these people. Then came to the set, director Adam was choosing the heroine, and many people appeared on stage. But when the blonde girl Camilla appeared, the director reluctantly chose her. When Adam turned his head, he and Betty looked at each other, and the two suddenly seemed to have a connection with each other. But Betty fled the set suddenly on the pretext of helping Rita.
11. Betty and Rita took a taxi to the found address. They saw the person who frightened Rita on the road. When they found the house at the address, the woman J inside told them that Di An did not live on the 12th but on the 17th. They exchanged The house. And Diane borrowed his own things and hasn't returned it yet. The two arrived on the 17th and crawled in through the window, only to find a rotten female corpse in black lying on a bed with a pink blanket on a yellow mattress. The cause of death was unknown and there was no pistol or the like. At this time, neighbor J knocked on the door to find Diane to return the things, but they did not dare to agree, and then quickly fled back. Rita cut off her long hair and put on a golden wig.
In the evening, Rita and Betty slept in the same bed, and when they said goodnight to each other, the two had a relationship (a bold scene) and showed their mutual affection.
In the middle of the night, Rita began to dream, chanting "silence" and "no band" in Spanish. After waking up, Rita asked Betty to go to a place with her. At 2 midnight, two Goldilocks took a taxi to a theater called "Silent". As soon as he walked in, the black-clothed man on the stage began to yell in Spanish: "There is no band", "Everything is a recording, it's just a tape". A weird and ethereal horn sounded. He also said: "Everything is an illusion." The man disappeared into smoke in the flash. In the stands on the second floor was a woman with blue hair and weird makeup. Behind the scenes of The Old Man in Red, a soprano named Rebecca Delio began to sing. In the empty theater, the singing is beautiful, sad and weird. Rita and Betty began to cry. Suddenly the singer fainted and was carried away, the singing continued. At this time, Betty found a handbag appeared next to him, with a blue cubic box inside. Back home, Rita turned to take the blue key in her bag, Betty disappeared suddenly, Rita opened the box alone, and suddenly the whole camera fell into the dark box together, and then the box fell to the ground.
12. In the same room, an old woman came in, the old woman B who began to travel far away, that is, Dream Betty's aunt Ruth. She looked around the room, as if looking for something, there was nothing on the floor.
13. At this time, the camera continued to turn and went to another room, which was Diane's room before. A woman in black slept on the bed. The scene is the same as that of the female corpse before. At this moment, the cowboy in 9 came in and said "beautiful, get up". When the camera turned back, the sleeping woman became a female corpse. It was dawn. It was still in this room. At this time, it was a pink mattress with a yellow blanket sleeping on the bed, a woman in white, Di'an, who was awakened by a knock on the door. Opening the door, it was the female neighbor J who asked her the lamp and plate she was going to borrow. Diane told her to take her ashtray by the way. There was a blue key on the table at this time, which was different from the toy blue key before. Before leaving, J told Di Ann that the two agents had come to Di Ann again. (Please contact 11 for comparison here.)
Back to the room, turning around, Diane, who was tired and messy, saw a brown-haired woman (notice that it is different from the blond Camilla in 4 and 10 before), she happily called Came out: "Camilla! You are finally back." Here to distinguish, we call this Camilla Camilla X. But Diane's expression suddenly became very excited. Then the camera shook Diane back to normal, his hair was neatly standing at Camilla X station just now, and he started to make coffee. The coffee cup was exactly the same as the one in the Vichys restaurant. Diane took the coffee and walked to the living room and saw Camilla X lying half-naked on the sofa. When the camera turned back again, Diane, who was still wearing pajamas, became half-naked. She was still holding the cup of coffee. Excitedly put the coffee on the table, at this time the key is gone, and the ashtray reappeared (contact 13). Diane asked Camilla X, what did you say just now. Camilla X said you drive me crazy. Diane was about to have sex with Camilla X. Camilla X refused forcibly and told her that they couldn't do this because of the man.
14. The camera shifted to the set. Diane stood in the distance and watched Camilla X filming. She had a close relationship with the director. When the tour guide wanted to send everyone away, Camilla X asked Diane to stay and watch her and the director alone. Kissing, jealousy and anger burned in Dai An's heart. When she returned home, she no longer saw Camilla X, and drove him away every time she visited.
The heartbroken Diane began to masturbate in the room, her vision was often blurred, and then she was crazy and even started to mash her own genitals. Suddenly the phone rang (the scene of making a call in Contact 6). The time suddenly changed to night, and Diane's clothes changed again. She answered the phone, Camilla X called and told her to send a car to pick her up to a place.
In the car, a street sign for Mulholland Road appeared in the line of sight. Driver A suddenly stopped the car, and the blonde Diane asked the same question as the brown-haired woman at the beginning of the film, why he stopped here. Camilla X walked down from the mountain and led Diane through a shortcut secret road to the villa on the top of the mountain. This is the residence of director Adam. Cocoa appeared, and she was Adam's mother at this time.
15. At the dinner, Diane began to tell about his life experience and watched the guests around him. Camilla X speaks Spanish. Diane recounted that she came to Hollywood from Ontario, Canada. Her aunt used to work in Hollywood and left some money for her after she passed away. Therefore, the victory of a jitterba dance competition made her want to come to Hollywood to film. In a campaign for a movie heroine, director Bob Brook did not consider Diane at all, so he chose Camilla X as the heroine. Camilla X was an instant hit, and Diane was dim, but they Having become a pair of gay lovers, Camilla X often helps the down-and-out Diane play small roles in some of his own plays. At this time Camilla X began to flirt with Adam. At this time, Diane began to drink coffee, feeling very upset. An old man in dark clothes was looking at him. This person was the one who spit coffee among the brothers. At this time, a blonde girl came over, kissed Camilla X, and looked at Diane with ambiguous eyes. This blonde girl was the Camilla who appeared in the interview in No. 10, and the blonde girl left and walked in. In one room, a man in cowboy costume walked out from inside, that is, a cowboy appeared in front of it. Diane collapsed completely.
16. When Diane heard that they seemed to be announcing their marriage, he gaffeed and touched the cup. He suddenly woke up and found himself in the same position where he had appeared twice before. This time Diane was sitting on the left. The opposite is the killer. (Compare 4 and 6) The killer is the killer in 5. She had just dreamed of touching a plate and cup on the ground. When the waiter came to add coffee, Diane saw that her name was Betty (contact 6). The killer didn't drink coffee, holding a black book in his hand. Diane gave the money and photos to the killer. The assassin took out a blue key (the one in 13) and told her that after everything was done, he could find something to open with the key. At this moment, Di An looked up and saw a person standing next to the bar watching their conversation. This person is the young man C in 2.
17. At night, a beggar sat behind the wall with a blue box in his hand, put it in a paper bag and threw it on the ground (see the devil in 2). An elderly couple came out of the box, E and F in 3. They screamed and walked away.
At Di'an's house, she was sitting on the sofa nervously. On the table was the blue key and the same coffee cup as the shop, without an ashtray. At this moment, I remembered the knock on the door, and E and F crawled in in the crack of the door. And getting bigger, the two old men chased Di An in weird poses, with terrifying smiles on their faces. Di An fell on the bed while screaming, took out a pistol and shot him in the mouth (contrast 11 and 13), everything disappeared in the smoke.
At the end of the film, the devil-like beggar and the bright and beautiful Diane appear against the backdrop of the bustling Hollywood, everything is like a dream. The camera shifted to the Silent Theater again, and the blue-haired woman on the second floor finally said silence in Spanish. The whole film ends.
The above is the fragmented scene of the whole film, which may be very confusing. Let's interpret what these plots mean. There may be many kinds of opinions, but let me start with the most widely accepted one.
Tell the truth first, and then substitute the above 17 pictures to interpret what it means.
Diane grew up in Ontario, Canada. Under the influence of his aunt, he wanted to become an actor. After winning the dance competition, he came to Hollywood to develop alone. Relying on the little money left by his aunt, Diane rented a house to live in Hollywood. But his acting career is not ideal. In an audition for the heroine, he lost to a brown-haired woman named Camilla. But also became gay lovers with Camilla. Camilla became a famous movie star, and Diane was unknown. With the help of Camilla, Diane can play a small supporting role in some plays. In another movie, the director Adam and the heroine Camilla fall in love, and Diane can't stand the excitement. So Diane stopped seeing Camilla. While masturbating, she still fantasizes about Camilla's shadow.
In the end, at the dinner, Diane saw a scene that completely broke her, so love and hatred, she did not hesitate to spend money to find a killer, asking her to kill Camilla. The killer gave her a key and asked her to go to the beggar at the back of the restaurant to get a box, and open it to prove that Camilla was dead. After opening the box, an old couple appeared inside, chasing Di Ann like a devil. In fear, Di Ann took a gun and committed suicide.
The dream was made by Diane after he got the box and knew that Camilla was dead. It was also a kind of memory and illusion before he died. I think it contains double dreams, nested together. The outermost is the whole movie until the end. The second layer is also the beginning. Knowing that Camilla is dead, Diane had a dream when he fell asleep. When the cowboy came and knocked on the door, the second-level dream woke up. When he woke up, he was still in the dying hallucination dream. It was discovered that the neighbor J was knocking on the door to get something. At this time, Di An was haggard and his hair was messy. Camilla died, but her spirit was still in pain, so when she turned around, she saw Camilla's hallucinations and was immersed in the previous sexual fantasy with Camilla. Camilla told her that it couldn't do this anymore, because she had fallen in love with Adam. The illusion turned to another scene again, the scene on the set, and then Diane began to remember how he rejected Camilla, how he couldn't help but the temptation to go to the dinner party and finally buy a murderer, always thinking and thinking, until night. It's dark, she still sits alone on the sofa to remember, and then is driven to death by the fantasy old couple demons.
Why is it a double dream? Many people think that the latter is realistic. I will analyze the details below, and let me talk about the order first. From the female neighbor knocking on the door to the dinner party, it seems to be in accordance with a logic of time and sequence. It can be considered that the dinner party and other scenes are memories of the neighbor’s knocking on the door, but when the dinner party breaks something and wakes up and finds himself in the restaurant, it can’t be explained here. Because this should happen before the neighbor knocks on the door, and I can’t recall that the time before and after the daydream has been misaligned, it is more appropriate to think that the latter is actually another layer of dreams. It’s also easier to explain what the ending woman means.
Now let's analyze the above parts one by one.
A. The beginning of this dream is the same scene I saw on the way to the dinner, the street sign of Mulholland Road. The brown-haired woman in the car is Camilla in reality. When she passed by here in the car, she was led to the dinner that broke her heart. At this time, she surprised Camilla here. In reality, it is clear that he sent someone to kill Camilla, but at this time it was Driver A who wanted to kill her. Driver A was the killer of the film company. This is because he could not accept the fact that he killed Camilla, so he blamed the blame on him. movie company. See (8) supported by theory. Since Diane actually didn't want Camilla to die, she regretted it. After seeing Camilla in 13th, Diane imagined that Camilla was still alive and standing next to her. So in this scene, the girl did not die, but escaped by herself and ran on the street at night. Here is ritualization and offset, see (9). Finally ran to the empty room and fell asleep. In Freud's book, the empty house in the dream mostly refers to the body of a woman, and a person represents desire. Di An's heart desires Camilla very much, but this feeling is very complicated, so the transfer phenomenon in (13) appears here. Camilla should love me too. I am lonely. I long for Camilla. Camilla should treat me like this, so the woman who represents Camilla in her dream runs on the empty street alone. , Fled into the empty room (female body) and fell asleep (because it was very comfortable, I finally released the body I wanted). A car accident, I think it may be the real cause of death in some reality. Here Camilla’s alienated Rita escaped from the car accident. The reality may not be the case. At the same time, being hit by a car often refers to rape or sexual intercourse. I will explain it later.
The conversation between the two policemen was very interesting. They found an earring, but I don’t know who owned it. In fact, we can see that Rita wears the earring at first, so why is there only one earring? Because the killer took it away, the killer in reality I was going to show Diane an item to prove that Camilla was dead. The earrings were that thing, so Menglita's earrings were gone.
B. The Vichys restaurant was the place where Diane negotiated with the killer. At that time, an eyewitness youth C stood by the bar and looked at them. In reality, Diane is sitting on the left and the killer is sitting on the right. In the dream, the old man D is sitting on the left, and the witness C is on the right. C tells that he dreamed of seeing D being scared by the bar, but when they went out together to see, he was really scared by the beggar behind the wall. There are a lot of camouflage and misplacement here. First of all, Diane moved here (13) for the youth C. He had nightmares at this restaurant many times, and the ghost in the dream was like that beggar, and finally he saw the beggar who sent the sin, just as scared as a ghost. I’m down, because I don’t have the courage to face the beggar who holds the evidence of Camilla’s death, so let this C go, and C has witnessed the secret that he doesn’t want to be discovered, so subconsciously Diane also wants the youth Die. The old man D is a fusion of the youth and the killer in reality. In reality, two people heard this conversation. One was the killer. The killer didn't drink coffee at the time, so D in his dream did not eat or drink at all. I just listened to C (Diane), and in reality it was the killer who guided Diane to find the beggar to take the box, so in the dream D also guided C to see the devil behind the wall. And another young listener learned about Diane's conspiracy, and was naturally shocked standing at the bar looking at them, so in the dream, C said to D that he dreamed that D was standing at the bar in fear. As a listener in his dream, D combines the characteristics of the two at the same time.
C. Betty is the main image of Diane in the dream. The name Betty is the name of the waitress who talked to the killer (see 16). In reality, Betty is a completely failed life. Everything is gone. In the last dream, she hopes that everything is like the life she should have in her dream. Here is the negative, see (2). She denied her frustrated life so far. And she idealized a self, see (11). Betty here, young and beautiful, from Ontario, Canada, her aunt is not only dead, but also very influential in Hollywood. She just went on vacation, so she is not at home. Here, the illusion of not being dead is given a "rationalization". "Imagination, see (5), here is also psychological isolation, see (10). Aunt's connections and influence make her a promising future in Hollywood. The old couple I met were very caring for Betty, but contacted her weird smile in the car and the demon in the illusion that finally killed Diane, and then contacted Diane’s growth experience in reality, and speculated that they might be Dai Ann's guardian when he was a child. How Diane feels about this couple is kind and terrible. The speculation of the crash in Contact A and why Diane became a pure lesbian. We can boldly guess that maybe Di An’s guardian when he was a teenager treated her very well, but he had sexually assaulted her, so this kind of psychological shadow has always remained in Di An’s heart, deep subconscious, after so many distortions Appeared in the image of this old couple.
The cocoa in the dream was also the transfer of his aunt, because in reality Coco was the only one who sympathized with Diane's experience at the dinner party. Diane subconsciously liked him very well. At the same time, his outdated aunt was out in the dream. Now, how much Diane hopes his aunt can stay by her side and take care of herself. As a result, the image of Cocoa manager appeared, helping and taking care of Diane's daily life everywhere. At this time, the aunt's death was "isolated" and "denied". Aunt's trip was a "reasonable" explanation, but Cocoa was "transferred" to another "aunt" who took care of her.
The appearance of Lita is completely opposite to reality. In reality, Lita is the successful Camilla. Diane prays many times and cannot save Camilla’s heart, but Lita in the dream is weak and lonely. She needs Betty to help herself, to take in and take care of herself. In reality, Diane hopes that Camilla will rely on and love herself, but it is impossible, only to "compensate" her wish with this inversion in her dream, see (15). I will not specifically contact the previous theories one by one later, but only describe the explanation, and those who are interested can compare it by themselves.
D. Adam was very successful in reality and took away his lover. So in this dream, Adam had to face pressure. The shady of the film company asked it to choose the heroine "Camilla" recommended by him. But Adam disliked this Camilla and refused to resist. Camilla in the dream is a fusion of Camilla in reality and Camilla's homosexual lover at the end of the film. Here, Diane certainly hopes that Adam does not like Camilla so that Camilla will not be taken away. He also hopes that Camilla will not be selected. So let Adam in his dream express his opposition to choosing Camilla. Heroine. But Camilla in the photo is the blonde female lover, because Diane didn't want to be naked against Camilla, so he only replaced Camilla's appearance and also expressed his dislike of the blonde woman. The coffee-drinking man made people very uncomfortable. It was the man who had been staring at Diane in the final banquet, which left a deep impression on him, so the man here became one of the brothers of Kas. Shady men.
Here I want to talk about the meaning of coffee in dreams. Coffee appears many times in the whole movie. Diane was drinking coffee while chatting with the killer. He was also drinking coffee when he fantasized about having sex with Camilla in the past and the painful discovery was just an illusion. Coffee, the embarrassing and angry scene at the last dinner was also drinking coffee. Subconsciously, coffee has become something that accompanies pain. Therefore, the nervous young man C in Dream 2 is drinking coffee, and the brothers here spit coffee, all of which are expressing Freund's theory with coffee.
In the end, the shady boss was imagined by Diane, so this character looks very naive, just like the villain in the children's imagination, or the villain in the cartoon, all weird and unreasonable.
E. The shots of the killer killing people are very interesting. In reality, when the killer talks with Diane, he has a black book on hand. In the dream, the killer is to grab this black book. Diane didn't want Camilla to be killed. She regretted it, so she made the killer make a series of mistakes. She was found and witnessed until the alarm rang and escaped. There are two meanings here. The first is that I am worried that I hired a murderer to be discovered, so a series of witnesses and mistakes appeared in the murder of the killer in my dream, and finally the alarm bell rang. The second meaning is to hope that the tragedy of Camilla's death can be restored.
The target that the killer wanted to kill was the long-haired man. He looked very distorted and looked like a woman. This was the alienation of Camilla in the dream, and before death the camera gave a close-up of the long-haired man’s hair with blood on it. , There are traces of burnt. Does this imply that in reality the killer actually killed Camilla with a car? This coincided with Rita being hit in the car at first.
The killer and his two companions are very interesting. The woman did not wear a bra and had bruises on her hands, as if she had been raped. The killer asked her to find a black-haired woman (Lita). This woman may be Diane in reality. This also confirms that Diane was once raped. At this time, in reality, it was the assassin she was looking for to kill. In the dream, she turned into such a woman to help the assassin find the target.
F. The large amount of cash that appeared in the bag was a value-added copy of the bundle of cash that Diane bought the killer in reality. In reality, such a bundle of money exchanged Camilla’s life. In the dream, Camilla’s avatar, Rita, was carried on his back. Many bundles of money do not know where it came from. This reflects the reality that Camilla is a very rich man, and it also means that Camilla should not be bought by a bundle of money. It is very valuable. The key here becomes a long toy key. Why did Rita carry the key? Freud believed that the long strips in the dream represented male genitalia. Here Rita carried such a thing, which fits the homosexual relationship between the two in reality. Among lesbians, there must be one representing the toughness of men and the other representing women who rely on the former. In reality, Diane has always relied on the strong and outstanding Camilla. Camilla symbolizes the male in homosexuality, so dream Even though Rita has been turned upside down as a dependant, she still carries this symbol of male sexual organs on her body, which is still a distorted reflection of reality. And the key itself is also the key to Camilla's death.
The two came to the restaurant. Rita was sitting on the left and Betty on the right. In reality, Diane was sitting on the left and the killer was sitting on the right. The name tag of the waitress was not Betty, but Diane, which was the opposite of reality. Here two people called this person named Diane. Betty said "It's weird to call myself", which tells the truth, yes, "Betty" called "Diane", it is indeed a person !
G. The director ran into the dream of his wife Rowling's adultery, which happened to take revenge on the reality and take away his lover. Let your lover be snatched away in the dream. Adam in reality is very successful and "strong". Therefore, the man who snatched his wife in the dream was also a very powerful muscular man, turning the recessively powerful into the dominantly powerful. The background music is ridiculous, and it was the molesting of Adam that gave Di An a feeling of joy.
However, Diane was also dissatisfied with Camilla who abandoned him, and hated this kind of derailment, so the film company reappeared and sent a larger person to beat both of them severely.
Adam was in desperation and suddenly went bankrupt, hiding in the dilapidated hotel, but still couldn't escape the palm of the film company. Diane hates Adam very much, so he not only has to take away his power to be the director, his love, his money and everything else.
H. Louise's appearance was very strange, she directly declared her uneasiness, and her dreams began to deteriorate. And here Louise said that someone had entered her house and would not leave, and also quoted Aunt Ruth that someone was going to be bad. This place is full of strong anxiety, which is still the same. The house represents the female body, but here is actually transferred again. According to Louise, Camilla's body was taken away, which is very disturbing. He also used Louise to convey Ruth's words to express his anger: Someone is dying.
I. The appearance of the cowboy is very mysterious, because the cowboy at the dinner party is a mysterious person. The guests are all in dresses. Why is there such a weird person? This left a deep impression on Diane, so the cowboy is also a weird person in his dream. He became the most powerful person to threaten Adam. Especially the dramatic performance, with strong imagination. And Diane borrowed the cowboy's mouth to criticize Adam as an arrogant person and should reflect on his actions.
J. The two scenes in the morning were very interesting. The first time it was played by Rita and Betty. At this time, the two really looked like they were going to kill people. Their attitudes were very tough. This represents Diane’s hatred of Camilla in reality. She really It's like killing her because she betrayed and made fun of her. When acting with that actor, the same scene becomes a hundred times more tender, because Diane actually loves Camilla deeply. In reality, Camilla has always played the male representative of the same sex. Full of dependence and love, Camilla disguised herself as this man to express her love. I said earlier that it can be guessed that Diane was sexually assaulted by an elder when she was a child. It can also be seen here, why is the man in her dream so old?
This scene when Coco arrived was a place of a lot of controversy, because in the whole drama, Rita didn’t seem to have communicated or contacted with outsiders. Almost all Betty was dealing with, and it’s the same here. It’s the first time you contacted Betty. Rita is behind the glass, Rita is named after seeing the poster in the mirror, and when Diane sees Camilla’s image disappearing and becoming Diane himself, and after Rita puts on the golden wig below, the two of them In fact, they look very similar, so many people think that from the beginning there was only one person, Diane was schizophrenic.
The scene where the studio and the director sparked sparks shows that in reality Di An wants to be selected, but the director who chose the heroine has never considered Di An. At this time, she gave herself a "reasonable" reason. In fact, the director is I liked myself, but I gave up because of Rita. This is also a tactful explanation that I hope Camilla could give up something for herself and for love.
K. Encountering a female neighbor, Rita and Betty learn that the female neighbor exchanged houses with Diane in the dream, and the house where Diane lives is now the house that Diane rents in reality. The name of the dead body on the bed is Dian, but it looks like Camilla in reality. Here, Diane both dreamed about Camilla's death in his dream, but also hoped that he could die in place of Camilla, so the deceased was called Diane and died in the same place as Diane's house in reality. Exchanging houses also means exchanging bodies. But at this time the neighbor knocked on the door, there was the same scene in reality. In the dream, the neighbor knocked on the door, and there was a corpse inside, but in reality it was to wake Dian from his deep sleep. There is a contradiction here, because the moment in reality happened after the dream, but the dream appeared in the dream when he was waking up. It is difficult to explain, so some people here think that the whole movie is actually a double dream, the first layer It was Diane who recalled his life before he died. The second level is that Diane in this memory had a dream, and the dream was nested. The first dream lasted until the end. The blue-haired woman said that silence represented the disappearance of Di An's consciousness and his own death. The dream in the dream is awakened when the female neighbor knocks on the door.
After escaping back, Rita put on a golden wig and had sex with Betty. The first explanation here is that Diane wanted to have sex with Camilla day and night, and finally realized his dream at this moment. Does the wig mean that Camilla's feelings for herself were actually not true. Another explanation is the split personality just mentioned. Camilla was born out of Diane's illusion. The love between the two is actually very narcissistic. Because of narcissism, I felt that I should be very successful, but the reality was a failure, so Camilla appeared like an illusion. But the subconscious mind in the dream tells you that you all actually have blonde hair and that Rita wears a wig, but you are actually alone.
Originally thought that the very sweet ending was broken, because in reality the ending is not sweet, so the brain began to correct the unrealistic dream of two people's love, that is, the role of inspection. So they came to the Silent Theater.
This part of the Silent Theater is the most difficult to understand. The first person in black chanted "No band" on stage, "That's just a recording, it's a tape", and "Everything is an illusion." This is implying that you are dreaming, you are just repeatedly immersed in hallucinations, what you see, your love, is a tape of your life, it is a recording, you are just repeating those things that have passed away. The man in black demonstrated a lot of actions, which made you think it was real when someone made a sound, but when he stopped, the sound was still there, as he said, "It's all recorded." Then, the soprano began to sing. The voice was loud, fascinating, and desolate and affectionate. The main idea of the song was everything that Dai An thought and experienced in his heart, so Betty and Rita began to cry, which can also prove that they seem to be the same. . And the two began to convulse, because the singing awakened the memory of the two of them. At this time, it can also support the statement about sexual assault to a certain extent. The expression of sadness, fear and acceleration is indeed very incomprehensible. I will attach the lyrics and translation at the end. When the soprano suddenly fainted, the singing continued, recalling that "everything is a recording" said by the tenor just now, we know that it is also a recording at this time. It turns out that this play is fake, but it is so vivid and vivid, it infects the audience and sings out the pain in Dai An's heart. Life is like a play, life is like a dream, everything is just illusion! The prosperity of Hollywood is illusory. Their former emotions are imaginary. Is the relationship between Camilla and Adam really true? Adam's wealth and influence are also illusory! Everything is fake! This is not only the meaning of the film, but also Dai An's greatest expectation and fantasy.
At this time, the feelings of the people in the dream began to change drastically, and the brain had already sensed it. Therefore, the silent theater was also a symbol of the end of the dream. The ethereal singing and the shouting were both illusory and awakening the sleeping people. The last blow came, and the box appeared! Putting the box on the bed, Betty is missing. There are still two explanations at this time. The first is that Diane is unable to face the truth with Camilla, so he erased himself in the dream. The second is that the two are the same. It’s time for the truth to be revealed. The box contains me. I have actually been killed by the person I hired. I just don’t believe that I’m dead. Just dreaming. Opening the box at this time is when you wake up from the dream, it is the truth, so the other mirror image of yourself is gone. No matter what kind of speculation, the truth is cruel. The dream is not allowed to go on. The inspection has forcibly pulled the person away from the illusion, so what is in the box, I don't know, the dream is over in the dark.
L. There are also many controversies about such a shot. Some people think that from beginning to end, only this shot is real. There is a box falling on the floor in the dream room, but there is nothing on the floor in reality. The old woman B is also there. In the room. I have already said that this old woman B actually refers to Diane's aunt, and Betty's aunt in the dream. If you think that you are still in a dream at this time, that is, the structure is considered to be a double dream, then this scene is better explained. At this time, the dream in the dream has ended, but the dream is still going on. This Ruth has appeared twice. The first time she was away, and she didn't see Rita hiding under the bed when she returned to the room to get the key, and the second time she entered the room without seeing the box. Both times I was in a dream, and I didn't see what I should have seen both times. Here, in fact, the Aunt Ruth in this dream has also transferred part of Diane’s real guardian image. Diane has not mentioned his childhood life. The only mention is the Hollywood aunt. The previous analysis of the old couple E and F We know that her childhood guardian may be very kind and sexually assaulted her, but in fact, she rarely asked about Diane's actual life. He only met his material needs and didn't care about Diane's psychology. So at this time, this Ruth in the dream is also the same. She should have paid attention to the needs and emotions that Diane was most concerned about, but she indifferently ignored it.
M. The scene where the cowboy appeared was also very puzzling. The cowboy told the woman on the bed that it was time for a beautiful woman to get up, and then the woman became a corpse. It is also confirmed here that only the dream in the dream is awakening, and the first-level dream is still continuing. When a woman becomes a corpse, it is actually a beautiful fantasy that has been drawn back to the cruel reality. In the inner dream, Betty and Rita adore each other. This is the ending that Diane desires most in reality, but this is a sweet dream and has been awakened, so the cruel reality of the woman in the outer dream turning into a corpse illustrates. Camilla is dead.
At this time, the color changed, and the first-level dream awakened, and someone knocked on the door to wake Diane who was sleeping. The scene at this time corresponds to the scene in the previous dream. Here can only be explained by thinking that it is an outer dream at this time, because the inner dream distorts the reality very much, and the same scene appears again in the outer dream at this time, just like recalling and correcting, telling the dreamer that the previous dream is The wrong one is "illusory". In the dream at this time, Diane is Diane, and Camilla is Camilla. There is no need for the disguise of the dream, because it is similar to a memory at this time. The coffee cups here are also very interesting, because they are the same as those in the restaurant, so it can be said that this is still a dream, so these little things have not changed.
Therefore, it is easy to understand the hallucinations at this time. At first, Diane saw Camilla, and her expression changed from happy to pain. This can be understood as finding that she is an illusion, Camilla has already followed Adam. Another understanding is that Camilla is actually dead. It can also be understood as realizing that there is no Camilla, everything is just fabricated by myself.
Several memories are twisted and overlapped here. The first memory is to open the door to the neighbor to get something. The second memory is a short period of coffee making after the hair and face changed. The third memory is to go back to the living room with coffee and change clothes. Many scenes blend and overlap here.
N. In another fragmented scene, the memory of the fragment was transferred to the set. Another broken memory turned to masturbation. Then it turned to the phone ringing. At this time, the memories are pouring up like a tide. Impressive past events are vividly remembered. This scene of masturbation is also worthy of analysis. She is struggling with her own genitals. Even if this scene hates Camilla for venting herself, isn't it a backlash from childhood sexual assault? An ashtray appeared in the place of the phone call. This place is very strange, because Diane does not smoke, so in reality there shouldn’t be an ashtray. There is a lipstick mark on the cigarette butt. What does it mean? These cigarettes may be stuck. Mira left, but they have separated. There are no cigarette butts in the ashtray on the table outside. Why is there a woman who smoked in a previous dream. She was the companion of the previous killer. The killer asked her to find the black Hair girl (Lita), I have analyzed before that this woman is Diane’s own alienation, so what is the situation in reality, so I speculate in reality that the killer asked about Diane Camilla’s situation, and Diane helped the killer When Camilla was found, the killer killed the opponent. It was still in a dream at this time, so the cigarette butt hinted that Diane was the previous woman, and was very responsible for finding Camilla and killing her. It is distorted here.
The place to go to Mulholland Road overlaps with the previous one. This is the same as the previous two knocks. This is also the correction of the first layer of dreams to the second layer. But because it is still in the dream, the metaphor here has also changed. Driver A said to give you a surprise, but the surprise led to a nightmare, so in the inner dream, the driver was about to kill Rita. But at this time, Camilla appeared and led Diane through the secret path to the banquet. Di An's emotions were first anxiety and doubt, then surprise, and then pain. This short paragraph condenses the entire story between Diane and Camilla. The secret path shortcut is the key to understanding. Diane originally came to Hollywood to develop with no support, with unfamiliar fear and anxiety about everything. At this time, Camilla appeared in a surprise. The time between the two people was that homosexuality was secret, and Camille La's help to Diane is a shortcut. But in the end it led to a painful banquet.
O. Many people say that the dinner is reality, but I think it is a dream, and there are dinners in reality, but the dinner here is a distortion of reality. First of all, the people who appeared at the dinner party looked strange, whether they were dressed or not. Especially for this dinner, if there is such a dinner in reality, then it is the last dinner of Diane and Camilla, so it is the same in the dinner in the dream, for Camilla both flirted with Adam and kissed the blonde girl. , The people here did not respond at all and ignored them, especially Cocoa never saw such a thing at all. I remember that Cocoa should be a very picky image. I once said that if you have trouble, you must deal with it, but here is only Numb, only Di An was alone in pain. At the dinner, Di An automatically filtered out his childhood when he told about his life experience, and the people around him had various expressions and mental states. This banquet is actually the epitome of real Hollywood. Here, everyone only cares about themselves, not others at all. Remember the singing in the silent theater, everything is an illusion!
The dinner here seems to be the realism of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper", just like that box metaphor Pandora's box. Very deep and meaningful.
P. The time and space here are in a mess. In her dream, she woke up from the dream again and found herself in a restaurant negotiating with the killer.
Q. It was a dream again here, but about to wake up, the beggar held the box, which represented Diane's
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