day to day, night to dream

Carrie 2022-04-20 09:01:12

I insist that this is a film about the "dream" subject.

This must not be the reason for schizophrenia, because the two segregated personalities do not know each other's existence, so how can they fall in love with each other.

But the editing is a patchwork of dreams, memories, the reality of the heroine's perspective, and the reality of the director's perspective, so it is very difficult to understand. You must watch it a second time to find the iconic items to distinguish these parallel times and spaces.

In fact, Diane's dream begins at 2 minutes into the film, before "Mulholland Dr." first appears, with a scene of a man panting and going to bed in a panic (note the red sheet and green blanket). And the real end of the dream is at 1:56:40 of the film, notice the red list and green blanket, and the desk lamp with the "non" red shade. Diane was awakened by the hurried knock on the door of the neighbor who was changing rooms. Before this scene, there are two consecutive dreams of someone opening the door and entering the house: the first is the aunt, and the second is the cowboy waking the corpse up.

When I rewatched it later, I thought it was actually very realistic. I believe that everyone has had a good sleep and an alarm clock rings in real life. We often do not wake up immediately, but have a dream, a dream. There will be a very reasonable scene, such as some music playing, or such as dreaming of picking up the phone, or even having a conversation, etc. Sometimes, I will immediately dream of another thing, and it will take a while to wake up. , and found that it was the alarm clock on the mobile phone.

Then, by finding that there was a blue key on the coffee table and returning it to the ashtray, the female neighbor also told her that two policemen were looking for her. It can be inferred that in the episode after waking up, she was not wearing a gray nightdress and a white coat. The bathrobes are all reminiscences of real events, like sometimes Diane wears denim shorts. In addition, you can also see if there are ashtrays on the coffee table. Those with ashtrays are memories. Wearing a bathrobe, making coffee or something should be something Diane did after getting up and before committing suicide.

After waking up from the dream, a large section of the detailed description of the emotional entanglement between Diane and Camilla and director Adam in the real world, as well as the dinner party or something, should all be true stories. The director finally told the audience the truth of everything, including why the car accident in the dream The location is 'Mulholland Drive', and the details of who Diane has met and heard explains why she has these people in her dreams and what she associates with the messages she hears. , For example, Director Adam found out the details of his wife's affair, as well as things like Zhang Guan Li Dai, for example, Coco became a property aunt. In the end, she sat on the sofa in a white robe and stared at the blue key nervously, and then there was a knock on the door. She might think that the knock on the door was the police. She couldn't face the reality. After imagining her aunt and uncle, she went back to the bedroom and swallowed the gun.

I don't study dreams and psychology, and I don't want to be as eloquent as many viewers, such as who represents who and who is ideal. I think the whole film is trying to express Diane's love-hate relationship with his girlfriend. In the end, the heroine's hatred prevailed and she hired a murderer to kill her. After learning that her lover was dead, she finally did it all night. Although it was all messy, she could see from her subconscious that she had a deep love for her lover. When she got up and faced the reality, she couldn't handle all kinds of emotions, so she chose to commit suicide.

In fact, I personally think that this part of the dream is very resonant, and this is the point that the director wants to arouse everyone's thinking and recognition. When we love someone, what we dream of in our dreams are all kinds of "good things" happening with him, and what we expect in our hearts. After falling out of love, the dream may be full of sad things, or it may continue the habit of dreaming that two people are together again, but wake up and find that it is abnormally empty. etc. Who can really explain what it means, it's so mysterious. So the director used the film to show us a "dream" that everyone can do, but it is difficult to express in a few words. The angle is still novel, although there are some minor flaws as a movie.

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Mulholland Drive quotes

  • Betty: Mulholland Drive?

    Rita: That's where I was going!

  • Adam Kesher: What's going on Cynthia?

    Cynthia: It's been a very strange day.

    Adam Kesher: And getting stranger.