Personally, I think that PETE is real only when the police station is woken up by a punch and starts before the transformation. The rest are all FRED's memory hallucinations or dream fantasies after his mental breakdown. The most important sentence of the movie came from FRED's mouth when he was talking to the police, "How I remembered them not necessarily the way they happened". Although this scene is also a memory illusion, it is indeed FRED's inner monologue and real thoughts. This sentence already implies that many scenes in the movie are not real processes, but FRED's imagination or uncontrolled subconscious fantasy. I have seen many analyses that try to follow logic or find faults in schizophrenia. There will be BUG, or unreasonable places, because these scenes did not happen in real space, but from the scenes processed by FRED's subconscious, the scene at the beginning is mixed with reality and illusion, because FRED is after killing his wife. Nervous breakdown, but not yet fully alive in hallucinations. And the situation after taking the drug in prison becomes very unrealistic because of the relationship of the drug.
Everything that does not conform to the logic of reality can be regarded as FRED's illusion. For example, at the beginning of scene 1, someone rings the doorbell and says that Dick is dead. At the end of the movie, we know that this person is FRED himself, so scene 1 is an illogical illusion. Since 1 is unreasonable, then the last scene is also an illusion. Although the illusion is an illusion, it is related to the reality, but some changes have been made by FRED's own processing. Another example is that in ANDY's PARTY, the man in black appeared as a demon, FRED asked ANDY who this man in black was, ANDY said that he was a friend of DICK LAURENT, which is not logical here, because he is a man in black who is demon. Andy can't see it, so such as saying that DICK is dead, ANDY replied that you can't know DICK and other conversations, all from FRED's subconscious processing, but combined with the real situation, in fact, FRED is likely to participate PARTY also talked to ANDY, and found out who ANDY was, or heard who DICK LAURENT was. On the way home, RENEE told FRED that she met ANDY in MOKE, and ANDY introduced her to her job. As for what job she said Forgot, I think it happened in the real world. When they got downstairs, there was a flash on the second floor of their house. This was from subconscious processing, so many scenes were combined by real and subconscious processing. All from the subconscious.
I personally think that FRED only killed RENEE. As for whether ANDY and DICK were killed by him, this is not a conclusion. It can be considered that FRED killed ANDY and DICK LAURENT first, then went home and killed RENEE, and was finally caught by the police. Then all the scenes came from his imagination (except in prison), and he processed all the causal relationships of these killings according to the subconscious, for example, when he finally transformed into PETE, he learned that ALICE was in MOKE (place name) under the introduction of ANDY. Shooting adult videos, this clue comes from the conversation with his wife in the car at the beginning, which is imagined by FRED. FRED thinks ANDY will only introduce the work of shooting adult videos, so the subconscious wants to kill ANDY and become FRED of PETE Sure enough, ANDY was killed. The method of death was hitting his head into the glass of the coffee table. This method of death is an illusion. In fact, ANDY may have been killed by FRED. It is unknown how he killed him, and he may not have done anything to ANDY at all. The same is true of DICK, and the same last chase is also imagined, and may have actually been in the electric chair by then.
From the perspective of "Mulholland Drive", it can also be understood that FRED only killed RENEE. As for the characters like ANDY and DICK LAURENT that appear in it, they are usually subconsciously left in their hearts. They are in FRED's memory illusion. All of what he did came from FRED's imagination. FRED had to forgive himself subconsciously to create these scenarios. In reality, ANDY, DICK and him are not much related to him, and they live well. After taking the drug from the police station, the drug is very powerful. FRED imagines that escape has become PETE. There is a scene where PETE's parents and girlfriend keep saying "don't go, don't go" and so on, which is to imply that PETE (ie FRED) should not do it on a certain night. Stupid thing, but PETE (ie FRED) still did it, but he forgot (FRED forced PETE to forget), PETE's parents said in a conversation with PETE that they saw what happened that night, PETE's mind flashed The corpse (RENEE) picture shows that the subconscious is beginning to be out of control (the effect of the drug is being eliminated), and the beautiful imagination begins to become bad. Next, ALICE gradually becomes RENEE, and the men in black appear, and PETE can only change back to FRED. , These are all dream illusions of FRED in the real world (that is, prison), and they are all made by the subconscious. Later, Mulholland Road magnified this point and became a masterpiece, but the degree of obscurity is undoubtedly the demon night. The panic is even worse. It can be said that it is an open-ended interpretation. This is exactly the result that David Lynch wants.
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