After watching "Want to See You", I was very interested in this kind of time-travel theme, mainly because after reading it, I felt a sense of accomplishment by sorting out the plot by myself, and then I saw that "Mulholland Drive" is also a Mobius-ring crossing. The story opened with great interest. In the first half, I kept guessing that this Betty and Rita were actually the same person, and that Betty was the Rita of the past. The result was that the more I read it, the more wrong it became. There were a lot of inexplicable plots. After revealing the answer, I watched patiently, and Betty turned into Diane again, and Rita turned into Camilla. I couldn't figure out a closed loop through the rear, and I was at a loss when I saw it. Being blind, I still wondered if I was seeing it right. Betty and Diane looked different. The old couple who came out from under the door looked so familiar. Where did they see it? As a result, I read another analysis, and finally realized that the first half was Diane's dream. Now everything is clear, and those inexplicable plots have all become reasonable.
I have to say that preconceived ideas kill people. Those netizens who say that "Mulholland Drive" is a Mobius ring crossing, don't their consciences hurt? Well, maybe they really feel that this is time-travel, and forgive them (where is the sense of superiority, I didn't understand it after reading the analysis)
It's a bit strange for the director to not understand it. Many parts were too obscure, such as the quilt and pillow at the beginning. I didn't pay attention, and I saw the black-haired beauty sitting in the car. I thought it was in the car. The black-haired beauty is the first shot of this film, I blame me for not watching it carefully. And the place where Diane woke up later, it happened to be the wake of Diane's rotting corpse. I thought it was just to express that she had turned from dead to life, or what would have happened if she hadn't died. Awakened from a dream. It's my fault, I've been spoiled by other film and television dramas. Other film and television dramas have to film people's dreams. Even if they don't show it clearly when they fall asleep, they will explain it clearly when they wake up, and wake up sweating or panting. And so on, even a lot of people even take pictures of the dreamer's expression or babble during the dreaming process, in short, for fear that the audience will not understand. When I came to this director, I felt that he was afraid that the audience would understand.
On second thought, I think the director's move is actually quite clever. Originally, people do not know they are dreaming when they are dreaming, they only realize that they are dreaming just after they wake up. The director filmed it like this, completely simulating a real dream. And many times, after waking up, I can't remember what I dreamed just now, so it's reasonable to wake up and have no reaction.
Also, the trash Youku is very harmful. I deleted a lot of clips. I was dizzy when I watched it. I didn't understand the relationship between the two heroines. I look at people with rotten eyes, especially where Camilla and the director kiss. I even doubt whether Diane likes Camilla or the director. I think I can think of the two heroines as an ambiguous relationship, and my mind is too dirty. Who knew that the two of them not only fell in love with each other in the full version, but also did love and explained it clearly. I was still tangled with doubts and self-reflection for a long time, and I was angry.
In fact, after the story is sorted out, it is obviously very simple. Diane loves Camilla, but Camilla is empathetic. Diane, because of love and hatred, bought and murdered Camilla. An also indulged in pain all day, had a dream at night, and then committed suicide because of the pain.
In the first half of Diane's dream, it's really reasonable. Many details reflect reality, and many places are just the opposite of reality, showing the dreamer's psychology of compensation, self-comfort or revenge.
Here are some details that I find interesting.
(Many film critics say that the three important characters in the dream all reflect Diane's various compensatory or revenge psychology, such as Betty, who is the perfect self in his imagination, to compensate for the failed self in reality, Rita, It was Camilla, the director, and Diane, who she imagined to rely on her to love herself The characters are actually the projections of Diane's own heart. I thought about it for a while and found this statement to be more reasonable.
But first of all, the establishment of the three characters must be based on their prototypes, but the specific behavior of these characters in the dream is more or less the projection of Diane's consciousness. For example, the incident of the director being greened is actually something that really happened in reality. But the specific details of being green are all from Diane's imagination, and they will definitely contain Diane's subjective thoughts.
In Diane's dream, Diane is like an author, who controls the words and deeds of the characters in the pen and writes a novel. The characters in the novel and the three views practiced in the novel are definitely the embodiment of the author's consciousness. For example, when the director was greened, the director's wife and the cleaners took it for granted, and even beat the director. This move seemed absurd at first, but if you think about it carefully, in reality, Diane was also greened. Her Camilla and the director are openly intimate in public, completely humiliating her, isn't it a matter of course? The pain that that gesture caused her was almost the same as the director being beaten. In her dream, there was a fierce man who beat up the pair of dogs and men again, which may also indicate that Diane hoped that those who cheated would be punished.
As for Betty in Diane's dream, at first glance, she was a talented actress, but in fact, the two mirrors failed. Although the first time was greatly appreciated, the director also seemed insincere when he praised her. After going out, the casting director also said "It sucks!" Although he quickly comforted Betty that he didn't say anything about her, it may have also brought back some real memories of Diane. Then the casting director started to say that the movie was unreliable and could not be made. So this story should be Diane comforting herself. In fact, I acted very well, and everyone appreciated me very much. The director didn't like me because he had no vision, and anyway, the movie couldn't be made, and it was nothing if it wasn't selected. In the second audition, the director fell in love with Betty at a glance, but he missed it because Camilla was predetermined by unspoken rules and Betty was going to see her lover. This is also Diane's self-consolation, not because of her poor acting skills, but because of objective reasons such as this. So Betty in the dream is not the perfect self that Diane imagined, and she is making excuses for her failures, comforting herself, and killing chickens.
Also, I used to think that the dream was very real and very reasonable. But I've changed my mind a bit now because of the dream I had last night. Recently, because the fried dough sticks in the cafeteria are very hard and unpalatable, I am very dissatisfied, and there are some academic pressures. I dreamed that I was back in the senior three class. The teacher asked each student to prepare five fried dough sticks, but I only prepared four. , I want to ask my deskmate to borrow one (in reality, my good friend from college), but she doesn't have many. I saw a lot of dough sticks on the front table (in reality, my high school classmates once refused my help.) I asked her to borrow them, but she refused. Seeing that the teacher was about to come over to check, but the four fried dough sticks I only had disappeared, I was very anxious. When the teacher checked me, I had to say that I forgot to bring it. The teacher sneered. Then I wrote the names of the students who didn't prepare enough fried dough sticks on the blackboard. My name was one of them. Then the next class was pinyin class. The teacher seemed very unwilling to teach us, so he told us to study by ourselves, but the exam was just around the corner, and the teacher didn't hurry up, which made me very anxious. After waking up, the specific plot is not clear, but the feelings of being rejected by classmates, criticized by teachers, and anxiety about learning are still very deep. If you think about it carefully, many plots are very absurd, such as preparing fritters in class, or teaching Pinyin in high school, these things are completely unreasonable.
There were a lot of ridiculous plots in my previous dreams. For example, I was startled when I saw a tiger, but when I looked closely, it turned into a kitten with a tiger pattern. Not only the plot is strange, but there are also all kinds of strange and impossible scenes in reality. For example, I am very afraid of snakes, so I often dream of many strange snakes, and the strange-looking monsters in my nightmares. The simulation of dreams in "Mulholland Drive" is indeed quite good, but it is generally quite reasonable. There are even people who can interpret it as reality in the front and dreams in the back. I am also convinced. I think real dreams are much more bizarre than movies, but it may not be possible to actually film dreams, or it may be detracted from the artistry. Dreams were also discussed in "Rick and Morty", but this animation was originally very violent, and the painting style of dreams was not suitable for children, but it did reflect some of the characteristics of dreams, especially when the teacher called up to answer questions in class. The plot of finding out that you are not wearing pants is so real that everyone may have dreamed of it.
And the meaning of dreams. In the movie, every fragment of the dream is actually meaningful. But in reality, sometimes I have a dream, and I think about it carefully after getting up, and I don’t know why I have such a dream. For example, I often dream of being robbed, being chased and killed by bad guys (I can’t run, just running around), bad guys breaking into my house and trying to kill me, and often these bad guys are faceless, or I In the dream, I dreamed that he was a person, but his face was blurred. I didn't feel strange in the dream, but I felt strange when I woke up. Sometimes the feeling of fear in the dream takes a long time to wake up, ah, my door is locked and the bad guys can't get in. I am very safe. Sometimes I dream that I can't speak at all, I can't make a sound, I try to shout loudly, and I really shout out to wake myself up. There was another dream that I was chasing a car with people. In the traffic, I jumped from the top of one car to the top of another car like a superman. Sometimes, I clearly hate a certain star, but I dreamed of falling in love with him in a dream, and when I woke up, I felt weird that I didn't hate him so much anymore. Sometimes the outside world may also have an impact on dreams. For example, if you hear the sound of a fire truck when you fall asleep, you may dream of a fire. I think human beings’ understanding of dreams and consciousness is still in its infancy. There may not be any conclusions yet about what specific dreams represent and how consciousness arises. Maybe many dreams are actually meaningless, that is, some things in the subconscious run out by themselves when you are asleep. Maybe we have seen and heard something during the day, left an impression, maybe some emotions such as fear and desire in memory, these things are usually in the subconscious, and they run out and wander around at night.
This movie actually gave me so much to think about, it's really worth watching. )
Diane bought a murderer to kill. The killer said that he would give her a blue key after the incident was completed, but the matter should have been exposed. There is a scene of a beggar playing with a blue box. Maybe the killer made an agreement with Diane that, after the incident, let her go to the back alley of Winch's restaurant to pick up the blue box? However, when she went to pick it up, she saw the beggar found the box. So the details related to this matter appeared many times in Diane's dreams. There is also a possibility that the killer told Diane to go to the beggar and get the box? Diane was very afraid of the blue box out of fear and guilt.
In Diane's subconscious, beggars became the most terrifying existence. The man who said he had nightmares in the restaurant and then fainted when he saw the beggar represented Diane's fear of beggars. The man said that he had nightmares about beggars, which actually meant that Diane often had nightmares and dreams about beggars. The man said that the time in the dream was midnight, which should mean that Diane went to get the blue box in the middle of the night and saw the beggar. And that man was actually in Wenqi's restaurant when Diane bought the murder. In Diane's dream, the man said to his friend "you were standing there", referring to the place where Diane was standing when he bought the murder.
The killer's killing of Camilla is revealed. Therefore, in Diane's dream, the killer was particularly unreliable and unprofessional. He wanted to kill one person, but in the end he killed three people. In the end, the alarm was triggered, and he fled from the window in embarrassment, indicating that in Diane's mind, this killer Especially lame. But Diane obviously doesn't know much about how the killer kills, so she can only imagine such a funny plot to show her dissatisfaction with the killer. After killing a man, the killer in the dream went to ask the street girl if he had seen a black-haired woman, which also implied that he was looking for Camilla. (I read another film review and thought that my idea should be wrong. The reason why Diane dreamed that the killer kept making mistakes and kept killing to make up for it should be because Diane was very worried about the killer's killing process. Afraid of what he will leave behind, his mistakes reflect Diane's worries, his various remedial behaviors, and Diane's hope that he will be foolproof and not leave any clues.)
In reality, when Diane gave the killer money, the camera showed that there was only a wad of money in the bag. In Diane's dream, Camilla took out stacks and stacks of money from the same black leather bag. Does it mean that Diane's subconscious wants to have a lot of money? (Instead of looking down and out like it is now). Or did she feel that Camilla was worth more money than just a wad of money?
Diane bought a murderer to kill Camilla, and she also received a blue key to indicate success, but in Diane's dream, she did not succeed. The man took a gun and let Camilla get out of the car. It should be to solve her on the side of the road, but at this moment, a car accident happened and Camilla survived. And down the trail that Diane and Camilla walked together, I found myself in my dreams. It shows that she subconsciously may not want Camilla to die, but hope that she can return to her side. (The man with the gun here should be someone from the film company. Diane may have fantasized in a dream that the film company was behind the scenes, and the film company did everything to kill Camilla and hire the killer. to escape from reality and relieve your guilt.)
Diane bought a murderer and murdered, and the matter was suspected to be revealed. In order to avoid the investigation, she was extremely afraid of the police. So in Diane's dream, Camilla was very afraid of the police, and she didn't want to dare to call the police when she encountered a car accident. She was afraid when she saw people wearing sunglasses and uniforms. In reality, when Diane's neighbor came to pick up something later, they also said that the two were still outside, and they should be talking about the people who came to investigate. To be honest, I thought this Rita was really hypocritical. She didn't call the police if something went wrong. Betty was too kind. She kindly took in Rita and helped her enthusiastically. In the end, it was all a dream. By herself, or in her subconscious, the two were originally lovers, so it was nothing to do these things for each other.
Maybe to avoid the investigation, or maybe to stop seeing things and thinking about people, Diane and neighbors changed houses, and the neighbors still had a few things that they didn't take away. Therefore, this incident has been in Diane's subconscious, so much that she dreams that the neighbors are coming to her house to get things.
In reality, Camilla was dead, but in Diane's dream, Camilla turned into Rita and lived in her house temporarily. At night, an old lady yelled at the door, something bad happened, something bad happened, which was actually implying that Diane knew the fact that Camilla was dead subconsciously.
Awakening from a dream usually requires external sounds or actions, or the person in the dream has a sense of weightlessness such as falling. These are the two rules mentioned in "Inception". However, in real life, there are not only these two ways to wake up from a dream. Sometimes we have doubts about the dream, realize that the dream is false, or when we try to think about one thing in the dream, we will also leave the dream. Once I dreamed that I was in the third year of high school. Everyone was studying hard and wanted to be admitted to the ideal university. Then I didn’t know what to say. I suddenly started to wonder, I’m not a graduate student, am I almost graduating? Why go to college? Why are you still going to class? The more I thought about it, the more I woke up.
There is also this clip in the film, when they went to see the show at Silencio, when the man on the stage said that everything was an illusion, Betty reacted very strongly and kept twitching, it should be that she realized that this is the performance of a dream that is about to wake up, and Camilla reassured her just in time, so she continued to stay in the dream.
Everything in the dream is the embodiment of Diane's subconscious, and the two most important things in Diane's subconscious are her love for Camilla and her pursuit of an acting career.
In reality, she was a failed little actress who lost to Camilla in the "Sylvia Story" audition, and later gave Camilla a supporting role with Camilla's help.
In Diane's dream, she became a talented actress, Betty, who was a great success in her first audition, and the director of the audition was Bob Brook, the director of "The Sylvia Story" in reality. I think Diane can't do it, but in the dream Bob praises her a lot. And "you are playing a dangerous game" translated into "you are playing with fire" is so expressive haha. (A few digressions were inserted, and I saw a film reviewer who said that he was a little frivolous with the actor, but I thought that although this uncle is a little old, he is actually quite a gentleman, and his hand is only a symbolic dangling on Betty's ass. It was Betty who pressed him down. Instead, it was the white-haired old man Mr. Brown who introduced Betty to the crowd. He was so lustful that he kept his hand on Betty's waist and touched it, and gradually moved up to Betty's chest. Brazenly wiping, I want to slap this old man off with a slap. Poor Betty has to pretend not to know, it's really hard for a beautiful actress.) The actor in the opposite play also mentioned the last actor who came to audition. With black hair, it also implies that it is Camilla. Later, in reality, Diane once said that Camilla wins every time, indicating that Diane subconsciously hopes to win Camilla once.
The casting director also wanted her to meet the director of the famous "Sylvia Story". Of course, the director here is not Bob, but Camilla's fiance in reality. The director was attracted to her at first sight, but Betty left in a hurry because she wanted to help Rita remember who she was, without communicating with the director. The director of "The Story of Sylvia" was threatened and could only use Camilla as the heroine, but Camilla's face in the dream was replaced by Camilla's new love in reality, and the audition succeeded by going through the back door. . The people from the film company in the dream kept repeating "This is the girl" pointing to Camilla's photo, which is what Diane said in reality when she bought a murderer.
When I first watched this episode, I felt quite annoyed. When can I see Rita? It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the director. Can you tell which is more important? Besides, Rita is just a stranger who has only known each other for two days. Even if you are afraid of her worries, why not give her a call and tell her? (Even if there is no phone at home, maybe the landlady has one?) Later, knowing that it was a dream, it made sense. In reality, Diane lost the audition to Camilla. In the dream, Diane imagined Camilla as someone who went through the back door by unspoken rules. The director was not satisfied with Camilla, but forced her to play the heroine. The director was more optimistic about himself, but he didn't even participate in the audition in order to help Rita. In this way, I found an excuse for my failure in reality and comforted myself. On the other hand, does it also show that in Diane's heart, Camilla's status is more important than her acting career, and Diane can give up her acting career for her? In Diane's dream, the director was attracted by a glance at himself. Does it also mean that Diane hopes that Camilla will not fall in love with the director, not get married, and not leave her?
In Diane's dream, Rita lost her memory and was very helpless. She could only rely on Betty's shelter and help to survive. Maybe it shows that the real Diane loves Camilla deeply, and hopes that she can not be so strong and rely on herself a little bit? In the dream, Betty was meticulous to Rita, not only taking her in, but also caring about her very much, and responding to her needs, whether it was helping her call her to ask about the car accident, or buying her coffee, accompanying her to find Diane, and accompany her at two in the middle of the night. She went to the bar without any complaints, while Rita took everything for granted. It may also symbolize Diane's love in reality. It's so humble, it's just a humble dog licking and a cold goddess. It's so miserable, so miserable, really, licking the dog and licking everything in the end. But licking is okay, murder is not right.
Dreams are ridiculous. In addition to the imagined killer, there is also the director's green hat experience. In reality, Diane went to a party. At the party, Camilla and the director announced the good news. The director made a joke of "the pool belongs to me, and the pool cleaner belongs to her", which made Diane make up for a cheating drama. In the dream, the director went home and caught his wife and the cleaner on the bed. I thought it was funny when I first saw it. The cheating wife was not afraid, and the cleaner beat up the director. Later, knowing that this was a dream, I realized that it was actually Diane's revenge mentality. This cross-cutting knife took love and stole his Camilla. Even if he was proud of his spring in reality, Diane still imagined him as a down and unlucky one. look. There is also the director in the dream who didn't accept the decision at first, and even smashed the investor's car with a golf club.
Diane in the dream was called Betty, and Rita forgot her name. While eating at the restaurant, Rita seemed to think her name was Diane when she saw Diane on the waiter's badge. This also corresponds to reality. When Diane was dealing with the killer in the restaurant, the waiter broke the plate. Diane noticed that "Betty" was written on her badge. In the dream, Diane gave the waiter's name to herself, so in the dream My name is Betty.
Diane in reality is very sad, but Betty in dream is very sunny. I don't know whether it was because Diane was so bright and cheerful when she first came to Hollywood. Later setbacks and failures suppressed her to what she is now, or whether Diane never It's very sad, the Betty in the dream is just her own imagination, an illusory perfect self. I am more inclined to the former. Which little girl didn't have hope when she first came to the big city, but after she finally got to know the true face of life, some of them are still as cheerful as before.
When Betty and Rita in the dream went to find Diane, Rita didn't want to go in, but Betty managed to open the door, and Rita finally saw Diane's rotting body on the bed. Did it also show that Diane wanted Camilla to see her pain inside. It may also indicate that Diane killed Camilla, subconsciously thinking that she should be punished, perhaps the price of killing her beloved is to slowly turn into a rotting corpse on this bed. It may also mean that Diane, although she looks alive, is dead at heart. It also foreshadows Diane's final ending. There is also a possibility that the carrion was not actually Diane, but the dead Camilla. After all, Camilla in the dream had already put on a golden wig and felt that she was called Diane. Diane knew Camilla was dead, so she imagined her turning into a rotting corpse (OK, I went back and took a look, the length and texture of this blond hair, it should be Diane, not Ka Mira). Such a scene has so many meanings.
Another interesting point is that in dreams, we sometimes add some strange characters to the stories we create, and the faces of these characters are generally people we have seen in reality. It may even be just a glance that leaves a mark in the subconscious.
The face of the landlord in the dream is actually the director's mother in reality, and they met at the party. The face of Camilla in the dream is actually Camilla's new love in reality. The man in the dream who was afraid of beggars in nightmares was actually a stranger he had met in the restaurant. The cowboy in the dream is actually a stranger who glanced at the party.
The old couple who met on the plane in the dream, the old couple who drove Diane crazy in reality, were actually Diane's aunt and uncle?
Looking back again, it wasn't, Diane's aunt had red hair, and the old lady in the old couple had white hair. It is speculated that it should be the old couple that Diane met when she first came to Hollywood. It's just that there may be some metaphors, such as representing Hollywood. At first glance, Diane is very warm and welcoming, but in places where Diane can't see, it slowly reveals its hideous face, and slowly changes a sunny and cheerful girl into a girl. Become a devastated, murderous maniac.
I looked at the movie viewing clues given by David Fincher, and the last one was "Where is my aunt?" Well, this white-haired old couple should be the real aunt and uncle, and the red-haired aunt in the dream, It's fake, Diane imagined it. My aunt's name is ruth, which means aunt ruth, a untruth. Well that makes sense! Ah another explanation might make more sense! It is this red-haired woman who is actually the owner of this mansion in reality, and this mansion has nothing to do with Diane. Diane may have seen this red-haired woman when she passed by, and put her in a dream. Imagine being his own aunt, not only rich and powerful, but also powerful, and can give Betty a lot of help when she is in Hollywood. In one shot, after Betty and Rita see the blue box disappear, the red-haired woman opens the door, leaving the bed empty. It should be implied that the red-haired woman is the owner of the mansion. Everything Betty and Rita experienced in the mansion were just illusory dreams. In reality, red-haired women have always lived in the mansion.
Another feature of dreams is that the transitions are blunt, and there may not be any connection or connection between each segment, but it is just released by the subconscious mind. As a result, the first half of the movie often has inexplicable plots, and even some plots are very strange. For example, the aunt clearly saw Rita but turned a blind eye, such as the strange smiles of the old couple in the car. But after the announcement, it suddenly became clear. The director has a lot of research on dreams.
God this is probably the longest movie review I've ever written, if the director played it in direct sequence, Diane loves Camilla, Camilla empathizes, Diane buys and kills, Diane dreams, Diane commits suicide. Maybe the movie wouldn't be so charismatic, and if those details became obvious, then analysis would be unnecessary. It is only interesting to analyze the details one by one. It is indeed a masterpiece, and it is worth it to endure the impatience in front of it.
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