David Lynch - a genius director who peeks into the human psyche

The film unfolds through the lens of a Polish woman committing adultery with a man. When the black-and-white image is turned into color, a woman is staring at the TV in a daze. From the layout of the sofa and the style of the carpet in the two images, it is certain that the two women are the same person. The woman no longer had the look she had enjoyed in bed during adultery, and tears of fear and remorse flowed from the corners of her eyes. When the tears flowed, the TV screen was playing a sitcom that looked like Friends, but the characters were human rabbits. In the heart of a woman who has a burden in her heart, this will undoubtedly become a source of psychological stimulation such as guilt, burden, and terror. The director uses the monster with the rabbit's head, the dark tones, the sound background sound in place, and the laughter that is not in harmony with the atmosphere to symbolize the regret and fear in the woman's heart at this time. We can understand this part as the first channel of TV. Immediately after the screen enters the second channel, which is most of the film, it is a dream-like play-within-a-dream about a Hollywood actress Nicky who takes on an adulterous scene and meets in reality. The male protagonist Devin commits adultery. Due to the fact that reality is very similar to the plot in the play, the heroine is too deeply involved in the play and actually confuses the life inside and outside the play. So what is Nicky and Devin filming? Nicky plays Sue in the play and Devin plays Billy in the play. After Billy and Sue commit adultery, they are abandoned by their husband and become a prostitute, and they end up insane and adulterous. The man's wife is killed with a screwdriver, this is the story of Billy and Sue. Billy is said to be insane here, mainly in the statements she made to men with glasses about how she successfully resisted being raped as a child, kicked the man's eggs into pieces, and was later raped with an iron bar. After she was subdued, she said that the man who truly loved her, these stories and characters were all made up by her to avoid and cover up her own adultery, and to numb and weaken the regret, guilt and fear of adultery. , and Su's death at the end brings this storyline to a close. It's worth mentioning that on another sublevel, although Billy's husband also knows about her adultery with Devin, at the end of the film, Sue is dead, not Billy, who shoots his husband in the end. The footage is not real (the changing face), it is used to describe her inner fear, how will Billy's story with her husband and Devin play out? Will Billy end up with Sue? Results are not given in these videos. In the end, Billy came out of the TV, and the shot of becoming one with the Polish woman was used to describe the subtle psychology of the Polish woman. At this point, through the lens of the phone call, Billy walks out
In general, the film can be divided into three levels, first, the story of Polish women's adultery; second, the sitcom of the human rabbit head man and the story of adultery between men and women; third, the intersection of the first two levels , that is, I have you, and you have me. As a character like an adulterous woman, the characters in the two levels have common behaviors and psychology. In the end, the two adulterous women in the film are integrated into one, completing the three levels. perfect combination. In addition, the second level can be further divided into two sub-levels of reality and film, which are similar to the dream in the dream in "Inception", and we will further analyze this sub-level later.
This film is full of hints and metaphors in the heart. To understand this film, one cannot narrowly understand the characters in the film as a specific character in the play. Efforts will only make you futile, and the more rational the more chaotic, because actors represent a kind of people. So what are the main types of people in the film:
1. Adulterous women: Polish women, Niki, Su, etc.;
2. Adulterous women’s husbands: some are played by the same person, and some are not. As for why you should analyze it yourself;
3. Adultery Men: Billy, Devin, etc., who live with adulterous women;
4. Roles used for psychological metaphors: such as prostitutes, adulterous women feel like prostitutes after remorse; conflicts and bloodshed between adulterous women and their husbands In the scene, under the question of "who is she?" by the big-headed woman who reached out to the camera, it is not difficult to see that these are all hints to the inner emotions of characters such as adulterous women, and they are afraid of such things happening in their hearts. body.

The main content of this film is to describe the psychological change process of a woman after adultery, which is an absolute center, and you will find that all levels of the film and the storyline are developed around this center. The other details in the film are all used for psychological suggestion, that is, the psychological fear and regret are specified as the picture of the film. Through onion-peeling analysis, it is not difficult to see that the storyline of each layer is very simple, all revolving around the incident of adultery, and the reason why we feel complicated is because the director expresses it through a series of metaphorical lenses The intertwined emotions and intricate psychology of adultery women's desire, regret, fear, pain, etc., are inherently difficult to understand, let alone the inner world interpreted by the camera.
For the whole film, we can get the main line of the development of the story, that is, after a Polish woman commits adultery to a man, she faces the TV set, because of her inner fear, remorse, and self-blame, when watching TV shows, grass and trees are almost like soldiers. All the plots were related to adultery, which caused a series of huge fluctuations in the psychology. Finally, the husband and children came back. She hugged them and cried, and she fell down. I don’t know if it was regret or fear, or she felt lucky when she woke up. Tears, this is the outermost main line of the film. We see all the processes in between as figurative shots of the TV show and the emotional upheaval of Polish women.

Of course, it is not unreasonable for some people to attribute everything to the imagination of Polish women, but I think the above understanding will make it easier for us to see the essence and logical structure of the film.
There are also many details carefully designed by the director in the film. Based on the above analysis, I believe we will have a deeper understanding of these details. In addition, different people have different understandings of the development of the story and different feelings about the details. While we seek common ground while reserving differences, we are also impressed by the director's directing ability. David lynch's genius is not only to make the film so bizarre and unpredictable, but also his ability to detect human psychology, and the ability to express people's inner fear, pain, struggle, regret and other emotions on camera is even more Breathtaking. From "Mulholland Drive" to "Inland Empire" (and others, of course), the human psyche is so delicately translated into film footage and understandable that no one but David lynch deserves credit for these works. It is the pinnacle of analysis of human psychology.

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