When you love someone too much and can't feel secure because of an unequal relationship, you want him to be vulnerable enough to need your protection, and only you can. The heroine in "Mulholland Drive" can't restore her lover who has changed her heart, so in a dream, the person she loves has a car accident, is hunted down and has amnesia, and accidentally escapes to her house, confused and helpless, like frightened animals. In reality, people who are unattainable and dismissive of her need her help so much at this time. The strong and weak relationship between each other has been reversed. This is the only way she and the heroine of this film can think of to shorten the distance with her lover and completely occupy each other. The male protagonist knows it well, but he eats the food made by the female protagonist again and again with poisonous mushrooms. He also longed to use the disease to find the intimacy with her when they first met. He said, "Kiss me before I get sick, love." How morbid and how romantic this is. Poisonous mushrooms evoke hallucinations, and love is "a socially sanctioned insanity" ("Her"). This "abnormal love" depicted in the film made me think, is love essentially just drinking poison to quench thirst? The truth of life is hard to accept, and the fact that people cannot understand each other has never changed. But in this disease-like state, where we are "helpless, soft, vulnerable, and honest," life no longer seems like an unsolvable mystery to us. So we took the initiative to choose this disease, just like the hero eating poisonous mushrooms, again and again, willingly.
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