lost road
I knocked on the door and told me I killed Dick Lauren.
Delusion precedes reality, that is, before the reality of "I killed Dick Laurent" knocks on the door, the delusion of "I killed Dick Laurent" knocks first.
The knock at the beginning symbolizes the delusion being generated within the subject, and the knock at the end symbolizes the fact that the delusion has become a reality.
When delusion knocks on the door of reality, illusion becomes reality, and this real fact (sin) is an unbearable weight (punishment) for the subject's life. The stinging pain in Room 26 makes the subject desire eternal escape.
Subjective reality and narrative
The psychological motivation of the protagonist can be divided into two parts. The other half is the evasive psychology of being unwilling to face the truth after killing Dick Laurent in revenge.
Under these two psychological motivations, the director stitches together the subjective reality and objective reality of the protagonist, as well as delusions, memories, dreams and illusions with the help of images, and divides them into three parts for image narrative.
The first part is a narrative from a delusional subjective perspective before being woken up by a police punch in prison
The second paragraph is a narrative of dreams in sleep after taking medication for headaches in prison
The third paragraph is next to the exploding house. After the dream of Pete and Alice having sex, Pete wakes up and turns upside down with the male protagonist, and then goes to Room 26 to seek the truth.
This work is David Lynch's work before "Mulholland Drive". Compared with the subsequent work, this work is obviously an early experimental work that integrates many ideas, with more experimental things, which also This makes the film somewhat confusing and obscure.
So for this movie, I am more subjective, only a few fragments of the image are the facts that actually happened in the real space, such as the protagonist is in prison, his wife has an affair with the Dick Laurent Hotel, and the protagonist kills Dick Laurent.
Most of the rest are delusions, hallucinations, memories, dreams, and image narratives stitched together in multi-dimensional spaces of imagery.
image analysis
Escape on the Freeway
The dream is the pursuit of the police car, and the awakening is the electric chair waiting for him, leaving only the escape on the highway that does not want to be caught.
Escape on the highway, that is, the imagery image of the inner escape psychology of the protagonist
weird video tape
The content of the videotape is based on the protagonist's home space, and the room refers to the inner spiritual world of the owner of the house in the context of psychoanalysis, that is, the videotape is the figurative medium of the inner spiritual world of the protagonist.
dismembered wife
In the videotape, a medium for the male protagonist to show his inner spiritual world, the inner anxiety, hatred and anger of the male protagonist towards his wife's cheating can be revealed. And in the form of extreme aggression of dismembering his wife, it expresses the split, out of control and collapse of the male protagonist's spiritual world.
scary old man
The old man should be the part of the shadow of the protagonist (the concept of shadow in Jung's sense)
bleeding nose
In the dream, Pete's nose suddenly bleeds, because the male protagonist in reality was punched by the police, and the sensory stimulation of the external world was reflected in the dream content.
Room 26
The real truth, such a tingling pain, whether in a dream or in reality, as long as the protagonist is infinitely close to Room 26, there will be great anxiety, anxiety, even collapse and loss of control.
In room 26 in the dream, Pete, the ideal self-image of the protagonist, opens the door, and the woman he sees there asks him, do you want to know the answer? Do you want to know why? This is the unconscious desire of the protagonist, an answer the protagonist wants to know. Why did he choose to cheat and betray him, that is, the protagonist used the image of a woman to ask a question about his wife, but there was no answer, only the unbearable real tingling feeling, which made Pete close the door of room 26.
In the real room No. 26, after the wife was having an affair with Dick Laurent and was discovered by the male protagonist, she waited for her to leave, angered and tied Dick Laurent, and finally killed him in revenge, which also led to The reason why the protagonist was taken to prison.
Individuals only do some subjective reference analysis for communication.
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