It is said that the film is confusing and difficult to understand. In fact, it is not so difficult to understand. As long as you combine the Simpson murder case and some psychological knowledge, you can interpret the following three points clearly. Complete with a detailed explanation of the whole movie.
1. The core of the film's story: A finely divided male protagonist killed his wife in a finely divided state because he was suspicious of his wife. After being arrested, in the subconscious in a dream, while restoring his consciousness through fantasy, he recognized the truth of reality and searched for his inner prototype. (that is, the root cause of psychological problems), killing the demon, thinking that he was freed, and was finally executed by electric chair in a dream.
2. The five states of the male protagonist:
A. Sober male protagonist (symbol: normal male protagonist)
B. The refined male protagonist (symbol: the male protagonist has dark eyes, the devil appears)
C. The male protagonist in the real part of the dream (symbol: incarnate as Pete, parents and girlfriends appear)
D. The male protagonist of the fantasy part in the dream (symbol: incarnate as Pete, Alice appears)
E. The awake male protagonist in the dream (symbol: After the male protagonist changed from Pete back to the male protagonist, after finding the inner prototype)
3. The meaning of several symbolic intentions in the film:
A. Who is the devil? (In the state of finesse, the blackened male protagonist)
Who is B. Dick Laurent? (The Eddie in the dream is Dick Laurent, he is the inner prototype of the male protagonist, and he is a suspicion of his wife, which can also correspond to Andy in reality)
C. Is the devil a friend of Dick Laurent? (If Dick Lauren represents suspicion of his wife, and the devil represents the male protagonist who is precise, in a state of suspicion, the protagonist will be precise)
C. What is the status of the heroine? (Three types, real heroine, dream girlfriend, representing the real part of the dream, Alice, representing the fantasy part of the dream)
D. How many people died in reality? (Two, the heroine and Andy)
E. What does the videotape stand for? (representing facts, representing what happened when the male protagonist was finely divided)
F. What does the Restoration Burning Cabin stand for? (representing the inner prototype in the dream, the origin of the motive for killing the wife)
4. Detailed analysis of the plot:
First of all, the title and opening scene foreshadow that this is a lost journey of the spirit...
The male protagonist who smokes and has worries heard a voice from the doorbell saying: "Dick Lauren is dead", Lynch said, the inspiration came from his own personal experience, similar to auditory hallucinations. Here, Dick Lauren represents the male protagonist's inner demon. With the suspicion of the female protagonist, it indicates that the heart of killing his wife will quietly ignite...
The male protagonist has a performance at night, and the female protagonist refuses to go to the scene on the pretext of reading. The male protagonist laughs, thinking what book is more attractive than himself, and suspects and tests the female protagonist. This is just an excuse. There was already a rift between them.
The male protagonist is a saxophone player with suspicion, and the performance at night was very noisy. During the performance, he called his wife and found that there was no one at home... The male protagonist nodded secretly, thinking that it was true, he probably went out for a tryst. ..
The male protagonist who dragged his steps back home and found his sleeping wife, isn't it funny, so many phones at home can't wake her up? The male protagonist is convinced of his suspicions and begins to blacken and transform...
The next day, the heroine received a weird video tape No. 1. The heroine with a ghost in her heart was very uneasy at this time. After watching the video, she found that it was only the appearance of their house. The heroine was relieved and suspected that it was a real estate. business.
Perhaps, all this was filmed by the male protagonist after schizophrenia without knowing it. Pay attention to the next scene, a gloomy curtain and empty space, and during the performance, the male protagonist sees the female protagonist and her lover Andy present and leaves, and then cuts to the blurred male protagonist on the bed. It can be seen that the male protagonist is mentally abnormal, confusing imaginary suspicion with real memory.
The male protagonist and the female protagonist started to have sex. The male protagonist is not strong enough. The female protagonist calmly patted him with her hands to comfort him. This may be the reason for the female protagonist's derailment. Note that the female protagonist here has black nails, which shows that he is no longer in the male protagonist's heart. Loyal again.
Then, the male protagonist said that he had a dream last night, dreaming that the female protagonist called him, the picture cuts to the burning fireplace, followed by the male protagonist with gloomy eyes, the gloomy corridor and curtains, and then the screaming female protagonist , the male protagonist said that he saw that the female protagonist was not a female protagonist. Note that the spirit of the male protagonist here is normal, and what he said about the dream is what he did when he was schizophrenic. Then, the male protagonist found that the face of the female protagonist around him had turned into a devil. At this time, the male protagonist had a short-term mental abnormality. It can be seen that the male protagonist saw the female protagonist like this in his own dream when he was fine. . The man was so frightened that he immediately turned on the light, and at this time the man's spirit returned to normal.
The next day, the heroine received a strange video tape No. 2 again, which was still the same appearance of the house, but this time it was cut into the interior, which made people panic. Note that the gloomy corridors and curtains in the picture here are similar to the picture in the dream that the male protagonist said last night. It can be seen that the video tape may indeed have been shot by the male protagonist. But at this time, who is the male protagonist on the bed? If you look closely, it should be the male protagonist. Maybe the male protagonist didn't make any video tapes at all. The scenes in the video tape represent what happened when the male protagonist was finely divided.
The hostess called the two detectives. The detectives looked at the video and searched the room without finding any clues. Pay attention to the questioning of the detective: point to one bedroom and say, there is no other bedroom? The male protagonist answered no. At this time, the female protagonist looked puzzled. It could be seen that the male protagonist lied, and then said that this was a practice room, completely soundproofed! This sound insulation paved the way for the murder of his wife.
The agent asked again: Are there cameras here? The female lead answered no, and said that the male lead hates cameras. Then, the male lead's answer was crucial. He said, I like to save my memories in my own way, and the memories in my mind may not necessarily have happened in real life . Therefore, there may be no videotape, but the male protagonist suspects that there are other people in the house, and called the police detective. It doesn't matter whether the male protagonist is videotaped or not, the videotape represents what really happened even if he is precise.
The agent then asked: Do you have an alarm system? The hostess replied, yes, but I haven't used it recently. The detective asked: Why don't I use it, and the protagonist said: It's always noisy. The reason for the noise is caused by the male protagonist's precise timing.
At a certain party, the male protagonist saw that the female protagonist and Andy were ambiguous, and the male protagonist was upset. At this time, the devil appeared. The devil said that they had met at home, and they were at home now. Here the devil represents the state of the male protagonist's time-sharing, and it shows that the male protagonist has indeed been divided at home. This scene is all the male protagonist's time-sharing imagination. Because of suspicion, the male protagonist is no longer at the party, but wants to go home. He talked to himself, called home, and the devil on the other end of the phone said that he would never come uninvited. It can be seen that the reason for inviting the devil (the reason for the fine points) is the suspicion of the male protagonist.
Immediately afterwards, the male protagonist pointed to a man in black and asked Andy who the devil was just now. Andy said that he was a friend of Dick Laurent. This is all the male protagonist's time-sharing imagination, because the devil is always there. The devil is Dick Lauren's friend, Dick Lauren represents the male protagonist's suspicion of his wife, and the devil represents the male protagonist's finesse. Friends, go with you. Did the male lead say that Dick Laurent is dead? Andy felt weird and said: I don't think you know him, how do you know he's dead? Hearing that the male protagonist mentioned Dick Lauren, the female protagonist seemed to be disturbed, and the male protagonist realized that the inner demon had not been eliminated.
Immediately afterwards, the male protagonist took the female protagonist to leave the party angrily, and interrogated the female protagonist again in the car, asking how she knew Andy, the female protagonist replied, Andy introduced her to her job a long time ago, as for what job it is. , the hostess prevaricates. The male protagonist said angrily that he has many bastard friends. Note that this dialogue will appear again in the form of the male protagonist's fantasy processing in the later dream. This is part of the hero's heart. The bastard friend represents Dick Lauren. Before the male protagonist fantasizes about the female protagonist, through Andy's introduction, filming porn for Dick Lauren is all the fantasy and suspicion of the male protagonist.
After arriving home, a strange light flashed across the house, and the male protagonist went into the house alone to check. This shows that the man suspected someone in the house and did not know what he was doing. The man entered the house and suddenly heard the phone ringing. The phone rang here. Ringing, it was the male protagonist who remembered the unanswered call from the show that night, plus all the unhappiness at the party tonight, paving the way for the male protagonist to go black.
After some investigations were fruitless, the two entered the house together, the female lead took off her makeup, the male lead took off his coat, revealing his black underwear, and walked into the darkness alone. Here it means that the male lead is on the road to blackening. Look at yourself divided. Passing by the living room, the flame of the fireplace has been extinguished, and the male protagonist walked out in the dark, it can be seen that the anger and suspicion in his heart have finally disappeared, and he has killed his wife.
The next day, the male protagonist checked the video tape No. 3 alone, and the female protagonist did not appear here, indicating that the female protagonist was indeed dead.
The content in the videotape is the picture of the male protagonist dismembering the female protagonist. The male protagonist shouted at his wife, and then was woken up by the police detective with a punch. The male protagonist shouted that he did not kill his wife. In fact, his wife was killed by him, but he did it unconsciously when he was fine. Who made the videotape? In fact, it doesn't matter who took the picture, do you still remember what the male protagonist said? (I like to save my memories in my own way. The memories in my brain are not necessarily real ones.) There may not be any video tapes at all. The video tapes represent what really happened. It is a fact that he killed his wife and dismembered his body.
The male protagonist is arrested and imprisoned, convicted of murder, and will be executed by electric chair. Note that the electric chair is the key here .
The male protagonist was in excruciating pain in prison. The prison doctor asked him how he slept. The male protagonist replied that he could not sleep well. Insomnia is a common symptom of schizophrenia. The prison doctor gave him medicine and said, you can sleep well next.
The male protagonist was in prison with a splitting headache, and the two prison guards said: The wife murderer looks so bad, the other prison guard asked which one? The two laughed sarcastically. Lynch said that the inspiration for this film came from the Simpson wife murder case, and I think this treatment is deliberately mocking the real murderer.
Immediately afterwards, the male protagonist returned to the restored burning hut in the chaos. The next part of the plot is the male protagonist's subconscious in his sleep after taking prison medicine, and this part is also the key to unlocking why he killed his wife.
This restored burning hut appeared many times in the dream, representing the inner prototype, that is, the fundamental motive for killing the wife. The burning of the hut represents the hidden motive. Before the destruction, the devil appeared in the house, and why did the devil appear? It shows that this motivation is related to the male protagonist's fine points, and this intention will appear again later, that is, when the male protagonist finds the root cause.
Driving on the spiritual highway, the male protagonist saw a young boy Pete, and saw his family and girlfriend shouting, no! Pete!
The next day, the prison guards discovered that the male protagonist in the prison had become Pete, and this Pete, in his dream, was the incarnation of the protagonist five years ago. The man started his spiritual journey through this Pete.
Pete stole a car five years ago, so his parents took him home. Note that Pete has a wound on his head. Also note that as long as Pete's parents and girlfriend appear, it represents the real part of the male protagonist in the dream.
Pete's friends and girlfriend took him to the bar, and his girlfriend asked him why he had a head injury? Ask him what's up lately, it's weird like that night. Pete replied that he did not know, and asked her which night? The girlfriend replied, the last night I saw you. It can be interpreted here that the male protagonist realizes his crime and tries to repair his fault in the spiritual world to find the answer. The injury on Pete's head represents a question why the male protagonist is mentally abnormal, and his girlfriend is the female protagonist. The night I saw you last was the night on behalf of the male lead who killed the female lead. Girlfriend asks if Pete still cares about her? Pete kissed his girlfriend, indicating that the male protagonist still loves the female protagonist in his heart, and he was mentally abnormal and killed her.
Pete works in a garage, and a garage might mean restoration. At this time, a big guy named Eddie came to Pete and took him for a ride. Pete got out of the car for repairs halfway through, Eddie said, Pete has the best hearing, and the male protagonist who has been in a noisy environment for a long time has poor hearing, which shows that the male protagonist is also using Pete to repair himself. On the road, a car followed closely. Eddie beat the car owner furiously, saying that he hated following the rear of the car the most. This should mean that the male lead hates being tracked by the police. Corresponding to the last police chase, the male lead has been trying to escape. Reality.
Back at the garage, Eddie asks Pete if he likes porn videos? Give him a shot, it turns out Eddie is in porn. Pete refused.
The two detectives who have been following Pete here said, Eddie is Lauren, and it turns out Eddie is the Dick Lauren mentioned earlier. Representing the male protagonist's inner demon, the pornographic tape represents the male protagonist's suspicion of infidelity towards the female protagonist.
When Pete returned home, he faced the mirror and found that his head injury had been repaired, which showed that the male protagonist had found the cause of his mental abnormality, which was related to Eddie, that is, Dick Laurent, and the representative of Dick Laurent was right. Suspicion of the wife. The restored Pete is the idealized expression of the male protagonist. The male protagonist begins to escape from reality, fantasize, and pursue the reasons for suspicion.
After the repair, Pete went to find his girlfriend, and the two of them were shocked. Note that his girlfriend's nails were black. Like the previous heroine, compared to the male protagonist, Pete's driving skills were very fierce, and the male protagonist was also making up for his shortcomings through Pete.
When Pete returns to the repair shop, he is terribly annoying to hear the jazz music, which shows that the male protagonist is immersed in this ideal self, and he is beginning to escape from reality and is unwilling to wake up.
At this time, Eddie came with Alice, and Pete fell instantly. In the evening, Alice took the initiative to come to the repair shop to give her a hug. The two made love passionately. Note that Alice's nails here are white, which represents the pure memory of seeing the heroine for the first time. The two met many times later, and the male protagonist also transitioned from reality to fantasy in a dream.
Once, Alice called Pete and said she couldn't come at night and she was going out with Eddie. This conversation seems to reflect the male lead's heart on the night the male lead appeared. In the male lead's mind, the female lead and Andy went out for a tryst that night. This is also the main knot of the male lead.
Pete, who hung up the phone, sat at home and found crawling insects and moths in the lamp. The shaking camera suggested that at this moment Pete, the male protagonist, was still in prison. He was beaten, and his consciousness was slightly awake. .
The restless Pete chose to escape. He was unwilling to face the reality soberly, so he drove his motorcycle to find his girlfriend and had sex to vent.
Then there is the conversation between the parents and Pete. The parents represent the fact that the male protagonist has been reluctant to face. The parents said that you came back with your girlfriend and brought a man with you. This corresponds to the night when the male protagonist killed his wife. When he returned from the party, the man he brought with him was the devil.
Then the picture of his girlfriend and his family calling him appeared again, and his girlfriend called Pete no! It turned out to be the cry corresponding to the night the male protagonist killed his wife. The scene of the dismemberment that flashed suddenly was exactly the same as the one in the previous videotape. It can be seen that the male protagonist is the murderer of his wife.
The next day, Eddie came to the car repair shop to find Pete. He began to suspect that Pete was having an affair with Alice, and threatened to carry a gun. It shows that the male protagonist's demons are beginning to work.
Immediately afterwards, the picture was blurred, the phone rang, Alice called to ask Pete, and the two were worried when they met. Alice had green nails at this time, indicating that the male protagonist's view of Alice has also changed. Alice said they could run away when they got the money, and he knew a guy who gave money to the girls at the party.
Pete was very unhappy after hearing this and asked her which party did you attend? Ask her if she likes it? Alice said it was just a deal and he made a movie for Eddie. Pitt said straight, porn? Alice admits that Pete is upset and asks how she got started, and Alice says this guy she met a long time ago, the job he introduced to her. Note, is this conversation similar to the previous conversation when the male and female protagonists came out of a party with Andy, and the conversation in the car is very similar. porn? Alice began to recall the scene where she went to sea, and Alice Mo Eddie transferred to Pete, which shows that Eddie, that is, Dick Laurent, has always been the suspicion of the male protagonist. And the Mercedes-Benz that Eddie drove before was the same as the Mercedes-Benz that the male protagonist drove in Pete's dream later, indicating that Eddie is part of the male protagonist.
Alice said, should I call Andy? Our ticket to leave here. Pete said, good. Alice starts planning how to kill Andy.
Then, in a Mercedes-Benz, Pete came to his girlfriend's house, and his girlfriend scolded him for cheating with Alice. The father came out to persuade the fight, and the girlfriend shouted to tell him, tell him! At this time, the camera began to shake, indicating that the effect of the drug was almost over, and the male protagonist began to wake up. My girlfriend said, I don't care anymore, and I won't bother you again. This shows that the male protagonist vaguely realizes that he has killed the female protagonist.
At this time, the mother said, there was a phone call, Pete answered the phone, it was Eddie, Eddie smiled strangely and asked him if he was okay? Eddie asked the devil to talk again, the devil said, in the east, a man is sentenced to death, he will be sent to a place where it is impossible to escape, and I don't know when the executioner will shoot him behind him. Here, the male protagonist begins to wake up and realize that he is facing the death penalty.
But the problem has not been solved, and the male protagonist continues to fantasize in his dreams. Pete comes to Andy's house, and he gets upset when he sees Alice's porn on the projection. At this time, Andy went downstairs, Pete knocked him out, Alice went downstairs, Andy accidentally stumbled and killed himself by accident. The male protagonist found that Alice was selfish, indifferent, ruthless, and very similar to the real female protagonist. Pete watched the pornographic projection, and his consciousness began to distort.
Suddenly, he saw pictures of Alice and the heroine and Andy and Eddie. The male mainstream nosebleed. Remember when the detective beat the male mainstream and got nosebleed? After the fight, he realized that he had killed the heroine, which means that the hero gradually woke up and realized that Alice was the reflection of the heroine. Pete is going to the bathroom, but in room 26, he sees the heroine having sex with Eddie, the heroine asks the hero jokingly, do you want to talk to me and ask me why? This is the fundamental problem that the male protagonist has been hiding in the depths of his consciousness.
Pete came back and he saw Alice pointing a gun at him and asked, don't you trust me? This is the male protagonist's subconscious attitude towards the female protagonist. Then Alice said I knew the guy who sold the stolen goods, and he'd give us money and passports, plus Andy's car, and we could go anywhere.
On the highway, the male protagonist subconsciously wants to flee with the idealized female protagonist. Pete asked, where are we going, and Alice said, to the desert, and the man who sold the loot for us lived in a log cabin. This shows that the source of the motive for killing his wife was found in the wooden house.
Then there's the opening stretch of highway, and then the burning restoration hut.
The two walked into the hut and found that the man had not come yet, indicating that the male protagonist was not fully awake.
Pete asked Alice why he was chosen? Alice said, you still want me, don't you? Then the two made love in a sacred farewell style deep in their consciousness. It shows that the male protagonist has always loved the female protagonist deeply in his heart.
Suddenly, Alice said, you will never have me again! Alice turned and walked into the hut. It means that the female lead has been killed by the male lead in reality.
Pete changed back to the male protagonist. At this time, the male protagonist was awake in the dream, but his consciousness was abnormal. He met the devil in the hut. Remember the hut when the male protagonist first started dreaming? It was this devil who appeared, and the devil represented the fundamental motive for killing his wife. Here, the male protagonist finally found it. It was suspicion.
The devil told the male protagonist that without Alice, Alice was the female protagonist. The devil took out the camera. The male protagonist realized what he had done, tried to drive away, and tried to find the underlying motive for killing his wife. Dick Lauren.
It was the opening highway again. The male protagonist came to the Lost Highway Hotel. In room 26, the female protagonist was having sex with Eddie. The male protagonist was in room 25. When the female protagonist left, the male protagonist entered room 26 and put Ai in the room. Di put it in the trunk, drove to a desert, and after a fight, the male protagonist gave Eddie a knife.
Eddie asked, what do you want? The devil hands Eddie the video of a porn party with a female lead. Eddie said to the devil, you and I can control these bastards, can't you? The devil shot him. It shows that the male protagonist still defeated the inner demon, and then the devil said something to the male protagonist.
Then, in Andy's home, the four people in the photo became three, Eddie, the heroine, and Andy. The two detectives who followed Pete and the two detectives who followed the male protagonist were together, indicating that this is the overlap of imagination and reality. Imagine that the detective said it was all Pete's fingerprints, but the actual detective said that there would be no such coincidence, indicating that all this was done by the male protagonist. In reality, there are only the heroine and Andy. Because of Andy's corpse scene, we switch to Eddie's corpse next.
Then, there is Eddie's body in the desert, and the camera is pulled to the clear sky. Here, Eddie, also known as Dick Laurent, really represents the suspicion of the male protagonist, and at this time, after a spiritual journey, he finally killed this inner demon.
Then, the male protagonist came to his house, rang the doorbell, and said the opening words: "Dick Lauren is dead!" The beginning and the end echoed. It turned out that the words the male protagonist heard at the beginning were just his inner vision. He had always been suspicious of his wife and wanted to kill her. Now, after a spiritual journey, he finds that he still loves the once beautiful heroine.
Remember what the devil said to the hero at the end? It seems that the male protagonist is reminding himself that his inner demon is dead, so he quickly tells himself to stop making mistakes and try to save everything that is bad. It's a pity that in reality, the voice I heard at that time was to kill my wife, and it was done. The male protagonist thinks that he changed reality in a dream, but in fact, he has been in a dream.
Then two police detectives drove after the male protagonist. The male protagonist drove from day to night. Then, on the familiar opening highway, the sirens sounded everywhere, and the male protagonist suddenly trembled violently in his seat, and then returned to silence. Here is the male protagonist who was electrocuted to death by an electric chair when he was unconscious... Until he died, he had been wandering and lost on the spiritual highway and did not wake up.
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