If you are not a fan of David Lynch, you would probably not be interested in this article, not to mention that this is a movie twelve years ago.
I just watched this movie, and I watched it three times a night (of course, the second and third times were watched with fast forward). Exclaimed-David Lynch is simply a ghost that is hard to describe in words.
Don’t expect to comment on this film. Even if you can sort out the entire plot of the film, you’ll have to rack your brains. It’s said that David Lynch himself never interprets the stories in his film. In his opinion, let’s It’s even more fun for readers to use their imagination to perfect the film. This creates a situation where everyone has an answer sheet, but the question maker is always closed to the standard answer.
I just saw some plot introductions and interpretations of the film on the Internet, and none of them seem to be close to my answer. It seems that regardless of right or wrong, I am truly exclusive.
Talk less gossip and get back to business.
The time and space of the entire film can be decomposed into four tenses:
A. What happened in real time;
B. The scene that the protagonist Fred imagined out of thin air (things that did not really happen);
C. In the dream of the protagonist Fred Scene: He is incarnate in his own youth-what happened after Pete (most of them are fantasy in dreams, which did not happen in reality);
D is still the scene in the dream of the male protagonist Fred, but he recovers The story after his true identity, Fred (although it is still in the dream, but it belongs to the real thing that happened, and the memory is recalled in the dream).
Because David Lynch deliberately blurs the boundary between A, B, and D in the film, it creates a variety of interpretation possibilities. The difference between A and C is set and strengthened by David Lynch. However, it may still be misunderstood.
Okay, let's start sorting out from scratch.
At the beginning of the film, Fred was irritable at home and smoked a lot-because he was very depressed and couldn't make up his mind if he wanted to kill! This moment belongs to the A tense.
After thinking about the intercom doorbell, Fred pressed the dialogue button, and Fred’s own voice came from outside the door: "Dicro is dead." He looked out, and there was no one outside - at this moment in the B tense, Fred I am full of hatred towards Dicroft, and imagine that if Dicroft is already dead at this moment, it will be fine, and there is no need to risk murder by himself (this also proves that Fred is just an ordinary person, not a bloodthirsty monster. This point is for the latter The plot is very important).
In the evening, Fred is going to work. He is a musician in a nightclub. At this moment, his wife René showed up and told Fred that she would not go to see her husband play tonight, but stay at home and read. Dejiang is skeptical, and the two of Renei have something to say, and they test each other. At this moment and for a considerable period of time thereafter, the scenes belong to the A tense.
Fred called home in the middle of the performance, but no one answered him. After Fred returned home late at night, he found that his wife was asleep. There is a possibility that he did not answer the phone because he was asleep, but the previous footage showed that there were many in the house. The extension telephones rang at the same time, and one of them was at the bedside-it can be seen that the wife was not at home just now.
In the morning, when the wife was picking up the newspaper at the door, she found that there was a paper bag sent by an anonymous person with a video tape inside. The husband wanted to see what was inside, and he had to take his wife to watch it together. The wife was a little nervous when he was calm. At the beginning of the good show, the wife Rene made an A film for the private club before she met her husband. She has not told her husband, and she has been affair with the owner of the private club, Dick Luo. At this moment, seeing the sensitive item of the video tape is naturally anxious; At the same time, the husband already had doubts about his wife, because the video tape was taken by the husband to test his wife, but he was in a split state every time he took pictures, and he would imagine himself as another person before turning around to watch. your own life.
The videotape just took the exterior of their house, and the wife was relieved: "Probably some real estate agent?" In the
evening, the wife was freshening up and Fred was meditating. That night, the wife went to the nightclub to see Fred, but there was another one beside her. Former friend-Andy, Fred hated Andy very much, because Andy was the one who introduced René to join the A movie club (although René never admitted the existence of that club, but said that Andy had introduced her to her An ordinary job).
After the wife was freshened and went to bed, the life of the husband and wife began. After working hard, Fred was frustrated, and then became calm and indifferent-the film began to reveal the secret, his wife’s apricot came out of the wall, and Fred finally came to an end, and began to have origin.
In the morning, the second videotape arrived again. This time the content was very horrifying. The photographer entered the house, walked up the stairs, and entered the bedroom, and unexpectedly captured the Fred couple on the bed! Looking closely: the hostess on the bed is always back, but the host has no head! It turned out to be two dolls.
Of course, the photographer is still the male host. The scenes before the film have repeatedly shown Fred's walking route and subjective perspective every time he returns home. It is exactly the same as the video tape shooter, which tells us that the shooter is Fred.
But in the eyes of the hostess, someone must have broken into the house and threatened them with tapes, so she decisively called the police.
Detectives Ed and Orr came, carefully checked all doors and windows, and there were no traces (the male host came into his home to take pictures, of course, he didn't need to break the window to enter), so they had no choice but to leave and promised to strengthen their vigilance.
And a conversation between the detectives and the host couple is quite meaningful:
detective: there is no other room?
Host: No. (Later, I saw my wife's questioning gaze, so he continued) There is another one, which I used as a recital room, closed and soundproofed.
Here we can easily guess that the film hints that Fred can do some private
work in the dark room .
Detective: Do you have a camera in your house?
Wife: No, Fred hates the camera!
Here is another hint to us: Fred has to imagine himself as another person every time to complete the filming, and the reason why he hates the camera in real life is because he can't stand his wife's behavior in the past (even though his wife Rene didn't admit it) .
Then the most critical line appeared:
Fred: I only use my memory to record things, even if it is different from the real situation.
The two policemen looked at each other. They thought they had run into a person with a poor brain. Yes, this was Fred with split personality, but he did not arouse Ed and Orr's alert at the moment.
In the evening, Fred doesn't have to go to work. The couple go to a party. Whose house is they at? ——Playboy Andy.
At Andy’s house, Fred saw a group photo of his wife, Rene, Andy, and Dicklow. When Reid came to Andy’s house in his dream and saw this photo, it was implying that Fred had actually seen this photo).
Then, René flirted with Andy, and Fred came to the bar and drank his sorrows with a drink. After that, the phantom appeared, and the plot entered the B tense: a weird old man with grease and powder came over, dressed in a black suit close to the tunic style, and he will appear behind him. He is actually another one that Fred imagined. Self, but more cold and selfish than Fred in real life, we can also regard him as the devil hidden in everyone's heart.
The man in black greeted Fred, claiming that he was at Fred’s house at the moment. Fred used the phone of the person in front of him to call his house. There was a strange answer, and the voice was the black in front of him. Old man Yi, the film here is actually implying that the scene at this moment is not real. At the same time, the man in black is in Fred's house to illustrate that this is his own demon.
On the way home (return to the A tense at this moment), the husband and wife continued to fight for their wits. Fred kept asking Rene's past, but Rene evaded the important things, and the big deal: I don't remember.
That night, the atmosphere between the husband and wife was indifferent. Fred struggled in pain, and finally seemed to have made up his mind. He finally decided to kill, but who did he kill? The director laid out the biggest puzzle of the film here.
In the morning, Fred got the third videotape and watched it alone (what about Rene?)-In the video, blood was flowing, and Fred was slicing the head, limbs, and torso of his wife Renei all over the room. It's all, one foot on the bed, half a leg underneath, and he still didn't forget to smile at the camera, and Fred in front of the TV saw that at this time he called his wife's name in horror... Then, he was caught Detective Orr hit the bridge of the nose with a punch and fell into the interrogation room of the police station. He kept muttering to himself: "I didn't kill her."
This shot made everyone come to the conclusion that Fred killed Rene and was arrested by the police. This is the conclusion I came to when I first saw this place. The question is who is the cameraman?
As the film progressed, I began to doubt this conclusion. Until the second and third time, I came to a new conclusion. I started to search all the content introductions and comments about this film on the Internet, and found that despite the There are many interpretations of other plots, but almost everyone believes that the plot of Fred killing his wife exists, and it can be said that this plot is the most basic theme and core of the film.
But my point is: This is the shocking puzzle David Lynch gave us—Fred did not kill Renet, or that Renet was not dead at all!
Who was the corpse broken into pieces? ——No one was broken into pieces, the scene actually entered the B tense again, which belonged to Fred's imagination.
When watching the video for the first two times, Fred had disheveled hair, was wearing pajamas, and everything was just getting up (in A tense). When watching the third video, his clothes were neat and his head was exquisite. I have already implied that this is different from the previous two times when watching the video, and the punch of the police woke him up-it turns out that he is being interrogated at this moment. During the interrogation, he entered a hallucination. He was killed and divided, and when he was yelling, he was awakened by the police.
Wait a minute, why did Fred come to the police station for trial if his wife was not killed?
Damn David Lynch, he jumped from the husband and wife back home from Andy’s party the night after Fred was arrested. In the end, you will find that many things actually happened in the middle, but the director deliberately jumped first. After going through those things and arranging a third video that didn’t exist at all, it completely confuses us with traps. At this time, only one third of the entire movie was played. Many directors of the puzzle will help us slowly dismantle it later. .
The court and jury solemnly sentenced: Fred was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. It doesn't show who he killed here. It's also worth noting that his charge was only murder and not corpse.
The film has repeatedly shown Fred’s autism, jealousy and cowardice. He was driven by the demons to shoot and kill individuals is already the limit. Killing his own wife can also smash her in front of the camera, which is obviously beyond this. The range of abilities of small musicians.
The director also ambushes a detail here: one guard in the detention center called Fred "the prisoner who murdered his wife", and the other said "which one", and then the two laughed. It seems that Fred is in the interrogation. Frequent hallucinations of wife killing have become a joke. If killing a wife is a real thing, what is so hilarious about the two guards?
Although he did not kill his wife, Fred, who did kill someone, still had to wait to get on the electric chair. The day before his execution, he had an unbearable headache. The prison doctor prescribed sleeping pills for him, and he fell asleep... the
next day , The guards were surprised to find that Fred in the single death row had become another person-the childish young Pete, and Pete’s files were also found. He was arrested for stealing a car many years ago and sentenced. It's a probation. He shouldn't be in a death row at all. Let his parents come and take him away!
What exactly is going on? It's very simple. At this moment, he has entered the C tense, Fred fell asleep and started to dream, and all the scenes in the dream are the key to us to open this puzzle movie.
Faced with the death penalty, Fred, out of instinctive survival psychology, made himself a minor offender and regained his freedom in a dream. At the same time, Pete was not born out of nothing. He was Fred when he was young, and Pete was suspicious. My girlfriend Suna had an ambiguous relationship with one of her buddies, and they clashed with that buddy and caused harm. The film did not explain whether the person was dead or injured, but it implied that Pete left her family for this reason, changed her name and changed her surname, and became the current Frey. Germany.
In his dream, after his release, Pete went to work in an auto repair shop and met Eddie, the boss of the underworld, and this Eddie was actually an important figure in the real world of the film, Diklo. He finally appeared in the middle of the film.
In real life, he gave Fred a green cap. Now, Fred is dreaming. In the dream, Fred wants revenge.
Pete helped Eddie fix his Mercedes-Benz. The two and Eddie’s bodyguards test the car together on the winding road. Eddie, who loves driving, drove the car himself. At this moment, there are two cars behind them because they can’t overtake and keep following their car. After honking the whistle, Eddie speeded up the car suddenly, knocked the car over, and beat the driver of the car with the bodyguards. Why? ----Because he died with the rear of the car!
Why does Eddie hate "Death with the tail", don't forget, this is in Fred's dream, which means that Fred hates "Death with the tail", why? Take your time.
Next time, Eddie brought her own horse Alice to the car. We saw that she was actually blonde Renai (Renai was black hair). As expected, Alice and Pete got together, and Pete was brave on the bed. The abnormality made Alice fascinated—the green hat worn by Dickrow because of his incompetence in reality. In the dream, Fred puts it back on Dicklow (Eddie) through his avatar, Pete.
At this moment, everything is going well for Pete. At work, he can fix any problems with the car by just listening to the engine. He is known as the most spiritual ear in the whole city, and is favored by bosses and customers. His parents are caring and considerate to him. In addition, he also He has a group of iron buddies; more importantly, his girlfriend Suna and the newly-acquainted two beauties, Alice, are both lost for him...
And what about Fred in reality? Withdrawn, boring, and weak, even a wife could not hold back. It can be seen that the dying Fred is making up for himself in his dream.
In the dream, Eddie seemed to be aware of the affairs of Alice and Pete, and the tone of the whole dream became less beautiful (the director hinted that at this moment Fred’s subconscious, the danger in reality began to be a little bit forced, after all, he was a death row prisoner. Prisoners, it is impossible to sleep too much).
Alice suggested that Pete and the two ran away after grabbing a sum of money, and the target was Andy (not Eddie, but the Andy who introduced Gennet’s A film in the real world)-Fred also hated him, so in I want to avenge him in the dream.
After Alice was going to bed with Andy at night, Pete started to stun Andy to carry out the robbery. At this moment, Pete had seen Alice's selfishness, vanity, greed for money, and debauchery. At the same time, he also had a premonition that he was likely to be brought into the abyss by this woman. But he couldn't leave the vixen at this time, and he could only be at the mercy of her--isn't he very much like Fred and René in reality?
Alice and Pete implemented the plan at Andy’s house, but they were slightly off. During the fight, Andy fell on the glass coffee table in his bar (familiar, yes, at the party where Fred met the man in black). Dead-Fred hates him so much!
At this moment, Pete saw the photo inside the house, the photo of Eddie (Dicklow), Andy, Alice the blonde and Rene with the black hair. In fact, this is a hint that Fred saw this photo at the party. However, there are only three people in the real photo (Alice and Rene are the same person).
In the dream, Pete was puzzled, why did the blonde Alice and the black hair look like a person? At this moment, his nose suddenly bleeds strangely. Why is this? ——Remember the bridge of the nose that Fred was hit by Detective Orr? At this moment, the effectiveness of sleeping pills began to decay, and the pain in the bridge of his nose began to remind him of his difficulties in reality.
In his dream, Pete was looking for the bathroom to rinse his nose in Andy’s house. However, he seemed to be in a long corridor again. The rooms on both sides of the corridor were written with the room number. When he walked to Room 26, he hesitated and pushed. After opening the door, René (yes, René, not Alice) was having an affair with a vague person. Pete retired in pain, and then he seemed to be back at Andy's house. Alice was waiting. He, the two drove straight to the wilderness, Alice said there was a small wooden house where they could exchange cash and passports with the people in the wooden house with the gold and silver jewels they grabbed from Andy's house.
When the car arrived in the cabin, there was no one inside. Alice said she would wait a while. During the waiting period, the two were passionate and spent a moment of ecstasy in the wilderness, but at the end, Alice said to Pete: "You can never Really get me." Then he got up and walked into the wooden house.
Although Fred was still dreaming at this time, the escape in the dream seemed to have come to an end. The truth of reality began to invade the dream, making him miserable. What Alice said to Pete was actually the relationship between Fred and his wife. Although he married the sexy Renei, Renei is destined to not belong to his husband.
Pete got up from the ground and got dressed. At this time, he has changed back to Fred. Fred walked into the wooden house to look for Alice, but there was only a man in black in the wooden house. He told Fred that there was no Alice at all. Only Rene, while the man in black took out a camera to force Fred, then who are you? The color and quality of the image in the camera are exactly the same as those of the video tapes. The film once again hints that it is actually the devil in Fred's heart that jumped out to control the videos taken by Fred.
Fred jumped into the car and hurried away. The film at this moment has entered the D tense from the C tense. Fred came to a hotel. The name of the hotel was Lost Highway. This name was actually the English title of the film. The director seemed to tell us that we were getting closer and closer to the truth.
In the hotel, Fred walks through the long corridor (yes, that's the corridor that Pete walked through after he had a nosebleed). Next to the corridor, in room 26, his wife, René, is having an affair with Dicklow, and Fred enters 25. Room No., waiting silently.
After a while, Rene walked out of the room and drove away in a hurry, because she didn't know that Fred was next door at the moment, and she also thought that she must arrive home earlier than her husband.
Seeing that Gennet was gone, Fred rushed into Room 26 with a pistol prepared in advance, holding Dickrow into the wasteland. At this moment, the car they were in was not Fred’s car, but Dickrow’s. Mercedes-Benz (familiar, it is the Mercedes-Benz that Pete helped Eddie fix the car).
When the car came to the wasteland, Fred and the man in black who he had imagined made a trial on Dicro. As the owner of the A movie private club, the relationship between Dicro and René has never been interrupted. Although Rene got married later, Fred’s weakness still made her obsessed with Dicroft, or Fred was sensitive to discovering that her abnormality caused the psychological disorder in bed. The film did not tell us. Maybe there are both.
Fred shot and killed Dicklow, and the man in black disappeared; at this moment the sky was getting brighter, and Fred drove home. Strangely, he did not walk into his house, but pressed the intercom doorbell. , And said to the people inside, "Dicro is dead." The film here again implies that Rene did not die. The people in the door can only be the seductive woman who hurriedly returned from the lost highway last night and caused many men to die because of her. Hot inside.
At this time, detectives Ed and Orr, who promised to strengthen the vigilance around Fred’s home, appeared. Fred jumped onto the Mercedes and whizzed away. Ed and Orr also called a large number of police cars to pursue them. The "death with the rear" police car forced Fred, who was desperate to suffer, and shook his head desperately, as if he was about to wake up from this terrible nightmare.
The film came to an abrupt end.
It should be said that the final D tense is the key to explaining the film. This story is exactly what happened in the blank period between Fred and his wife's return from Andy’s party to Fred’s arrest. It explains I know who Fred killed and why, but this story is embodied in the second half of Fred’s dream-memories in the dream, and the final scene even shows Fred’s Helpless: It's scary to stay in the dream and be "dead with the rear of the car", and it's even scarier to face the electric chair once you wake up.
The first line of the film is exactly the same as the last line, both "Dicklow is dead". This is a point of view. It expresses that the core of the story is the murder of Dicklow and not other people. At the same time, Dicklow is also the movie. The only person in the movie who died in the film (Fred who killed Dicklow must also be in the electric chair, but the movie is over before this plot is implemented).
David Lynch is so magical, this movie and his "Mulholland Road" a few years later are exactly the same. We have seen a lot of movies depicting crime, but the descriptions of criminal feeling and criminal psychology can reach the level of these two movies. What's even more incredible is that a movie allows you to watch it three or five times in a row, and you can discover the infinite mysteries hidden in it every time you watch it.
If David Lynch commits a crime, can someone catch him?
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