I don't want to mention Freud's dream interpretation method. In fact, I personally think that there is a general plot of this movie, but it can't be regarded as a suspenseful reasoning story to explore an ultimate answer. It was a dream, not a case with an eventual culprit. It has a lot of contradictions and inexplicable things - it does not rule out the possibility that Lynch did not intend to make the film deconstructed thoroughly and simply set up many inexplicable images by himself, and we can even speculate that this is Lynch himself. A dream, as a director, the smartest way to shoot such a movie about a dream is naturally to be in the form of the closest dream. Of course, dreams have certain reactions to reality and people's psychology, but they are nonsensical and unreasonable dreams. Who can say that dreams are logical, reasonable, and make sense in every way?
I don’t want to go into details about the story of the film—to be honest, I don’t think the story itself is novel and bizarre. The main reason is that the way of expression is very special, and it penetrates deeper into the hearts of the characters in the story. What I want to illustrate is a purely personal view of several images: the
blue box -
in Western culture, blue represents a kind of melancholy and depression.
In the film, the eerie blue appears many times. The carnival singing and dancing in front of the blue screen at the beginning, the blue box, the blue key, the blue hair of the woman on the second floor of the theater, and the picture at the end is the image under that weird blue and white light. I understand that the blue box is the core of the film and represents a kind of devouring.
In reality, what it contains is evidence of Camilla's death, a devouring of Camilla's life. But its devouring is not only limited to this, but also love, hate, hope, and humanity. At the beginning, the singing and dancing in front of the blue curtain (seemingly to celebrate Diane's entry into the film industry after winning a dance competition), seems to be an irrational soul packed in a blue box without knowing it. In the dream, there is a key but no box, which means that they have the possibility of being swallowed. At the end of the dream, Rita opened the box, and the camera entered the box, it was dark, but can it be understood in this way? It is a subjective perspective and an omniscient perspective. The moment the camera enters the box, it is accompanied by sound effects. Exactly the feeling - Rita, aka Camilla, was sucked into the box. All disillusioned. Its devouring is another release. Unleashes a kind of "evil", "sin", "fear". This is reminiscent of Pandora's Box. At the end of the film, two people who appeared in the image of Dianne's uncle and aunt, who were laughing madly, were symbols of "evil", and climbed out of the box, as if they wanted to drag Dianne into the box. The blue light also seems to imply that, in fact, Dianne has been trapped in it and there is no escape. Dianne committed suicide, and she was finally swallowed.
Old couple -
According to the image of three white figures cuddling and laughing in front of the dancing crowd at the beginning of the film, the two old people should be the uncles and aunts who raised Dianne.
In the dream, the images of my uncle and aunt appeared as two old men they met at the airport. However, they were supposed to be close relatives, and they did give Betty (Dianne in the dream) sincere blessings. However, After the two elders left, they sat in the taxi and smiled at each other. The smile was so weird that it made people shudder (the soundtrack was also weird). And at the end, the images of the two terrifying people coming out of the blue box are also them. So, I thought that the old couple should represent Dianne's deformed living environment.
Mirror -
The first time Betty saw Rita through the mirror, and Rita saw the poster of a female star named "Rita" through the mirror. The first time Rita put on a golden wig was with Betty In front of the mirror...the mirror seems to appear in the film.
First of all, what is shown in the mirror is an illusion, a shadow of reality, which coincides with the theme of the dream.
A mirror is also a form of refraction. Betty is the idealized Diane with a shadow of Camilla in reality; Rita is Camilla in the dream and the female star on the poster in the mirror. However, in this series, no matter who is who and who is who, what the mirror reflects is a commonality, the commonality of the images of the four women in the dream and outside the dream, and this commonality reflects another one full of vanity, absurdity, helplessness, Evil devouring phantoms, or dreams.
The image of the mirror is an endless division of the body. Movie stars do nothing more than one thing, nothing more than splitting according to the requirements of the script. There is a proper term for this kind of splitting - acting. Making a star is also divisive. The four women inside and outside the dream, and even more people, are they not tragic fates split from a common dream?
What I didn't understand in the dream - Cowboys, Silent Theater (especially the blue-haired woman on the second floor).
Although the plot is intricate, the theme of the film is actually very clear - a critique of Hollywood's dream-making and its inherent darkness.
In fact, it can be seen from the name. Mulholland Drive. Madonna, John Lennon's residence is on this road, Lynch's own residence is not far from here. This mysterious road has witnessed the history of Hollywood legends. Lynch, the film is a dream, a nightmare, related to this road.
Hollywood is inseparable from the word dream.
Hollywood is known as the DreamWorks, weaving one dream after another on the silver screen. The American Dream, to a large extent, was passed on to the world by Hollywood on the silver screen. Hollywood has given endless dreams of stardom to American teenage boys and girls with a seemingly beautiful but absurd and dark dream. Lynch simply used the form of a dream to ridicule and criticize the Hollywood dream, a sugar-coated nightmare, the blue box full of devotion and sin.
From this point of view, the inner ideological connotation contained in it is not very profound and heavy, and it is worth digging and thinking about it. Its main beak is still in the content, or in other words, the reorganization of the plot caused by the special expression method. From this point of view, it is really not on the same level as "Wild Strawberry", which is also about dreams.
Trivia -
1. Analysis of film and television works: Find a movie with a dream plot, and conduct a structural analysis on the content and metaphor of its dream. So someone searched, searched, searched, and found it sadly, and found that all the movies about dreams except Wild Strawberry (but this was analyzed in class) and Inception (this is too troublesome to analyze) are basically the same. Thriller horror criminal psychopath ! It was night! And I'm the only one in the bedroom! And it's the eve of Ching Ming Festival! ! ! Labor is very timid and easy to cut! ! ! ! In the end, I closed my eyes and chose "Mulholland Drive"... Really, I regretted TAT. It's better to choose Inception...
2. In order to write less Braille, someone saved all that they could, so he was not afraid to send a message to the teacher: "Teacher, you should have seen "Mulholland Drive", right?" The teacher replied: "I've seen it. You can decide which film to choose." Someone replied with a thick skin: "Well, it's not what film to choose, but how to write it. I want to minimize the redundant words..." The teacher was silent. . ╮(╯▽╰)╭ If this is not the case, I would have to say that there is nothing new in reality, dreams, and gods. It's not troublesome. Labor and management do not believe that the teacher will not have seen all kinds of analysis that are similar to each other after watching this film...
3. The name of this article is purely a spoof. I can't let someone work so hard to get a name after working so hard... So, this gorgeous name was born out of someone's boundless tossing mood.
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