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Subject: Re: The meaning of Mulholland Drive
Date: Sep 25, 2002
I say you got the right idea... but are off on a few key important factors....
The first sequence... from before the title.. you see a staggering person walking towards a bed.... (this would be diane... going to a dream).. and the next 1.20 hours.. are ALL a dream.. until the cowboy says.. time to wake up darling....
The next little bit.. is all real true life... but the time sequence is all out of order... By the time she is having the above said dream.. Camilla is already dead.. HENCE.. the blue key on the table... she is goign crazy now that it is done... and the end result is her suicide.. because she is being chased by the two old people (who would be the judges in the jitterbug contest she won when she first decided she would movie to hollywood and have her big dream.. they represent her dream of stardom and how horrable it has turned out); fears the knocking on the door is the "detectives" (the neighbour mentions it earlier as her good friends and lover camilla is dead)... and runs in horror to her bedroom.. to commit suicide.....
All reference to 'diane' being dead in the dream.. is forshadowing elements.. and dreams of 'future' comming true....
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The meaning of Mulholland Drive
I am the only person I know who perfectly understands Mulholland Drive (Lynch does to but doesn't publically -- for publicity -- admit to it).
FFFFFFFFFrrFFFFFFFFFFFrrrFFFFFFFFFrrrrrFFFFFFrrrrrrrFFFrrrrrrrFFrrrrrrrr
The above is the linear structure of the film, with FFF = fantasy/daydream the rr = reality.
In real life the blonde and brunette have been lovers. The brunette jilts the blonde to marry a film director. In a fit of jealously, the blonde hires a hitman to kill her lover. In her app't, at Mulholland Drive, while waiting for the news of the brunette's demise, she slips into wishful thinking, a daydream, an if only scenario. (We all do this when things in life aren't working out as we would like). This is where the movie begins. The drive rr is real, the accident begins the daydream FFFFF which takes up the first 1.20 minutes of the film, interspersed with moments of reality, [the introduction the hitman, the director's wife's infidelity, etc]. As the film advances, the daydream begins to show cracks, allowing more rrrr moments to get in (the discovery of the blonde's actual apparment, the brunette's taking up with the film director etc). Eventually, the daydream must yield to reality, (analagous to Hollywood fantasy yielding reality). Ending on a strictly rrrr note, we find the jilted blonde, alone, living in rrrr squalor in Mulholland Drive?
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