1. Pay special attention to the beginning of the movie: two clues are given before the subtitles appear
. 1. Jitterba competition: Betty wins the competition. The old couple celebrated the victory with her.
A. The dance competition became the stepping stone for Diane to enter Hollywood and pursue an acting career, which she revealed at the dinner at Adam's house.
B. Betty became the focus of everyone in the spotlight, then the camera faded out and returned to Diane's bedroom. When the image of a pair of dancing partners appeared, Betty had no dancing partners, except for the Irene couple. The Irenes are obviously the embodiment of Diane's beautiful/innocent side.
C. According to the order of appearance, Betty's name appears before Diane on the subtitles list, which shows that the dancer is undoubtedly Betty, and before the camera fades out, someone shouting "Betty, Betty" out of the audience's sight also proves this. Does this mean that Diane's winning the dance competition is just a story she wove herself, or that what actually happened in the competition was not what was presented to the audience?
D. Although people still dance the jitterba dance, the people in the dance obviously do not belong to this era, because everyone is wearing old-fashioned clothes. Nowadays, in the nostalgic socks party, most people don't wear old style clothes, some people may wear typical contemporary style jitterba costumes. Does this tell us that it is just a retrospective of the 1950s or earlier (when Aunt Ruth was young), not a competition for Betty/Diane.
2. The camera seemed to focus on the floor somewhere before being buried in the pillow, where the blue box disappeared in Havenhurst's apartment.
3. Then accompanied by the obvious sound of smoking cocaine, then someone was breathing heavily and fell on the pillow.
A. Someone goes to sleep (after taking medicine)-the dream is about to begin.
B. When Diane wakes up later, we will see the same green blanket and red pillow.
Second, pay attention to the red shade
which is another clue that tells us at least two alternate reality.
1. In Diane's dream, in the intricate Hollywood conspiracy, the red lampshade appeared next to the last ringing phone, but no one answered it. There are several possible explanations for this:
A. This visual clue tells the audience that Betty/Diane is at the bottom of the pyramid system that operates behind the scenes of Hollywood. This fact entered Diane's dream, reminding her that whether it was in reality (letting the killer kill Camilla) or in a symbolic sense (a better Camilla appeared in the dream), she was the one who planned the accident. The call went unanswered because Diane did not want to admit that she was indeed the sole culprit in the murder. The audience has to see Diane's phone ringing again towards the end of the film to connect the two scenes.
B. This appeared in Diane Selwyn's dream. According to the chronological order in the dream, no one answered because Diane had died in Sierra Bonita's apartment.
C. They are calling Diane Selwyn in reality. Since the Hollywood underworld controlled the film industry, Diane's resignation in this circle was idealized by herself. "The girl still can't be found" refers to Diane living in the apartment for several weeks, imagining that Hollywood is actively looking for her.
D. This is a call to invite her to the dinner, but Diane refuses to answer it. This is Diane's pathological way of dealing with reality. It is her imagination. She hopes that she has not attended the dinner and did not answer the phone call Camilla called to her that night.
E.Mr.Roque's "Girl still not found" refers to Rita. Before the phone call, there was a scene of Rita sleeping under the kitchen table, which shows that Rita is the girl who disappeared from the scene of the car accident... Is she having a leg with Mr Roque?
2. Diane Selwyn woke up and thought of Camilla. At this time, we knew that the phone next to the red lampshade was actually her own home phone. When she answered the phone, Camilla invited her to 6980 Mulholland Road.
3. Other red lampshades:
A. When the prostitute appeared, it was in the corner store of Pink's. The prostitute seems to be a clone of Diane, symbolizing that Diane was forced to become a prostitute. Is she a call girl who leads a double life?
B. Appeared in Havenhurst, the first floor upstairs of Aunt Ruth's apartment.
4. There is a blue lampshade on the table in Mr Roque's room. Is blue/red a symbol of yin/yang?
3. What is the name of the film that Adam Kesher auditioned for the actresses? Has the name been mentioned again later?
Another hint of alternate reality.
1. Adam Kesher is auditioning for the heroine of "Sylvia Northern Story". (When the blonde Camilla walked in, the stage management announced: "Sylvia Northern Story", Camilla Rhodes begins.")
2. At the dinner at Adam's house, the name was mentioned again by Diane. Wilkins said "Sylvia Northern Story" The director is Bob Brooker, and Camilla performed well in the film.
Judging from the title, "Sylvia Northern Story" may be a tragic story of a fallen female star, and both Diane and Camilla have auditioned for this film. the tragic ending is a satire.
Fourth, the accident was horrible ... Please pay attention to the location of the accident
on the way to Adam Kesher 6980 Mulholland Drive home. here Camilla greeted Diane, and her hand in hand through the secret passage. Diane thought Camilla wanted to reconcile with herself, but she didn't expect that Camilla would announce her marriage to Adam. The dinner became a humiliation to Diane. In anger and jealousy, she hired a killer to kill Camilla and fell into remorse.
In Diane's In the dream, Rita was kidnapped in the same place on the way to Adam's house, but she escaped.
Possible explanation:
A. Sudden changes prevented Camilla from reaching the destination (dinner?), and the murder failure alleviated Diane's psychological guilt. In this way, Diane hopes to erase her terrible crime.
B. If the accident happened in a dream rather than in reality, then Rita's accident on Mulholland Road in the dream is a reflection of Diane's accident in reality. The accident of Diane's encounter is: at the dinner party, unexpected spirit The blow disillusioned her.
C.Diane dreamed that the production consortium planned to murder Camilla because they didn't want her to play the leading role. They set an ambush for Camilla on Mulholland Road, and in reality Camilla greeted Diane in the same way.
5. Who gave the key? why?
Coco: Give Aunt Ruth's key to Betty... and take her into the "dream world".
Killer (blue key): Confirmation after the incident.
Who got the key?
Rita: In her bag, the key is put together with the cash for the murder transaction. Diane wants to transfer the crime, so it is impossible for Betty in the dream to have the key.
Diane: On her coffee table. It is likely that she retrieved it from elsewhere.
Observation:
There is only one key in the film. Coco gave Betty a key, but the killer didn't give Diane the key, he just "leaved" the key to her. Besides, Betty has never touched Rita's blue key.
There is a clever trick hidden here. The audience was tempted to pay attention to the blue key. But no key is "given" to anyone. Betty got the key to Aunt Ruth's apartment because Aunt Ruth was dead, just as Diane got the other key because Camilla was dead (see clue #10). Therefore, if Coco's key is a clue, then the relationship between Coco and the two protagonists needs to be further explored.
6. Pay attention to nightgown, ashtray and coffee cup
These timing elements appearing in the "real-time" scene can be used as a time reference. Nightgown
:
1. Ruth's nightgown: (precious, purple) In Havenhurst apartment, it was prepared for Betty (Bitsie), but Betty used it to cover Rita who was sleeping. Rita wore this dressing gown on the first day. This gorgeous nightgown was prepared for Betty, but only Rita wore it, Betty never wore it. These details show that Diane envied Camilla and enjoyed the success she had dreamed of in Deep River since she was a child.
2. Rita's nightgown: (a black-collared red nightgown) I wore when rehearsing with Betty the next day.
3. Betty's nightgown: (pink) for rehearsal.
4. Diane's nightgown: (worn, white) When Diane started to remember in her apartment, it looked like the pink nightgown of her dream faded.
Diane wearing a bathrobe is a "real-time" scene (neighbors visit, suicide), and when she wears shorts, it is a scene of memories (making love on the sofa, masturbating).
Piano ashtray: When
there is a piano ashtray on the table, it is a scene of memories (making love with Camilla on the sofa), when there is no ashtray, it is a real-time scene (the neighbor has taken the ashtray, and Diane sits alone on the sofa to remember And then commit suicide).
1. When Diane and Camilla were on the sofa, the ashtray was still there. Diane had apparently exchanged apartments with neighbors before the hired killer killed Camilla (before the dinner party).
An ashtray full of cigarette butts:
2. There is an ashtray full of filter cigarette butts next to the red lamp on the table. One of the cigarette butts has a red lipstick on it. Since Diane doesn't smoke, those cigarette butts may have been left by Camilla or her neighbors.
Coffee cup:
1. Diane made coffee for herself. Her coffee cup is the same as the coffee cup in Winkie's. This may be a hint:
A. She is employed by a small restaurant (waitress Betty/Diane?), and she has a habit of stealing.
Personal belongings appeared in B.Diane's dream. If so, is the scene of meeting the killer at Winkie's also a fantasy rather than a real situation?
2. In the scene of having sex with Camilla on the sofa, the coffee cup becomes a glass with whiskey.
3. At the Ryan board meeting, Luigi ordered a cup of espresso.
4. At the dinner, Diane’s coffee cup read SOS, which was presented in his dream as Vincenzo Castigliane on the board shouting "Help me". This cup is the same color as Luigi's cup with espresso, but in a different style.
7. What are the gains in the "Silencio" theater?
Feel: love, unanswered love, pain, tears, convulsions, passing away, fear, compassion.
Realize: Everything is an illusion. Dreams are not reality. lie. The falsehood of Hollywood, the dream is over.
Get: Betty takes a blue box with a triangular keyhole from the bag.
8. Can Camilla succeed only by?
Which Camilla?
1. The Castigliane brothers selected the blonde Camilla Rhodes to play the heroine of "Sylvia Northern Story". The possible explanation is that this conspiracy is Diane's rationalization of her obscurity in reality. She believed that she had done nothing wrong and acted according to the rules, but the intrusion of external forces caused her failure. All in all, Diane refuses to be responsible for the loss of starring opportunities.
2. Camilla with black hair
A. Camilla has a leg with the director. She is likely to use her sexy and sex with the director to get ahead. Diane said at the dinner: "No matter what, Camilla got this role." At this time, Coco glanced at Camilla and Adam meaningfully, as if he knew well about Camilla's career prospects.
B. Did Diane use her own money to help Camilla in her career? There is a saying that the cash Diane was going to hand Joe at Winkie's was not a transaction reward for the murder of Camilla, but Diane asked Joe to find a way to change the role assignment of Camilla in the film and block Camilla's path to fame.
9. Pay attention to the surrounding situation of the people who appeared behind the wall
1. Dan saw that terrifying face, and after seeing this "monster", he had a heart attack and died.
2. At the end of the film, the monster reappeared after the deal was concluded to hire a murderer to murder Camilla. But he was no longer a monster, but a poor and sad beggar, dressed in messy clothes and nothing. We know that this is just the original form of the monster that appeared in Diane's dream. But wait, this homeless person is also regarded as a monster by Diane in reality, and he released the old couple who forced Diane to commit suicide. Although Diane in reality wished he had never seen his face, he stayed there all the time.
3. After Diane died, monsters appeared on top of the layers of smoke. Then the monster's face faded away, and Betty/Diane's face gradually appeared. The last appearance of this "man" is very meaningful. The scene shows that his face is inextricably linked to Diane's face, which means that the monster is actually another personality of Diane, so he is not a "man" at all, he It was Diane herself.
10. Where is Aunt Ruth?
1. In Diane's dream, Aunt Ruth went to Canada to make a movie, and she let Diane live in her apartment.
2. We learned from Diane's conversation at the dinner that in reality, Aunt Ruth has passed away, but she left a legacy for Diane. What's the clue? A black hat appeared in Aunt Ruth's bedroom. When Rita took off the wig, we saw it on the table. Is this for the funeral? Note: There is an old joke in the film industry: acting in Canada means death.
3. At the end of the dream, Ruth appears in the Havenhurst apartment, when Rita has disappeared. Ruth wore the same clothes as when he left. Possible explanations are:
A. This is the ghost of Aunt Ruth, the product of Diane's hallucinations, just like Louise Bonner and Dan were in Winkie's.
B.Diane gradually became sober, realizing that the dream was about to end, and tried to reverse the situation. The dream was interrupted by the disappearance of Betty and Rita, but Diane clearly refused to let the fantasy disappear like this in Diane's consciousness. She wanted to regain her dream from the time when Aunt Ruth returned to the apartment to pick up things. From this we learned: Diane does not want to return to her real life.
C.Diane dreamed that her aunt came back from Canada and found that she (Betty) was missing. Just as Ruth and Betty missed each other in Havenhurst and failed to meet at the beginning, it symbolized that Diane loved her aunt very much and hoped that she would not die. Ruth died before Diane arrived in Los Angeles.
D. Ruth walked into the room and separated the dream from reality. This proves that there is no blue box on the ground, or that this is just a dream, or that the dream is about to end. Therefore, her appearance indicates that reality is about to appear, even if the dream is not over yet. Besides, if this scene reflects reality, is this woman really Diane's aunt? Can't we think that this is just a strange woman's apartment, and its appearance in Diane's dream is only to provide a place for the story of the dream? Everything is... an illusion.
E. This scene is a memory of when Aunt Ruth was alive. What she heard was the voice of her own ghost.
F. The story in the film actually happened in the 1950s. Betty/Diane is the young aunt Ruth. This is a story about Aunt Ruth. So when Rita opened the blue box, Betty disappeared. She then became Aunt Ruth, indicating that the dream was over.
4. The last clue given by David Lynch asked: "Where is Aunt Ruth?" At the end of the film, a woman with blue hair appeared. Is she the Aunt Ruth in the afterlife?
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