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Subject: Re: mulholland drive
Date: Oct 21, 2002
Good analysis.
I pretty much agree with you. I'm just not very good at expressing myself.
The film reminded me of how the structure of life that is layed upon us ruins us very much. If we accept things and live here and now - and not in the past nor the future - things would be a lot better. Betty isn't ordering the hit man, the structure in her is. The same structure that is killing her.
Good film, actually.
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Re: mulholland drive
A Murder Suicide film through the eyes of the suicide victum.
I saw this one 5 days ago and it haunts me.
I believe I have an answers for the viewers & reviewers left scratching their heads.
About 96% of the scenes were (in my opinion) a perspective from a dead person. The suicide was explained in the end of the film.
It is from that point to the end of the film that the rest of the scenes have to make sense. There was a consistent weirdness to the behavior in the scenes up to the one where we see how the body on the bed came to be there. (Note the expressions of the elderly couple as the sat in the TAXI as the left Betty behind.)
I believe the motive of the short hair blonde was made evident once we knew she was the body on the bed & how she died at her own hands.
She was not a very bright person. Take up from where she asked the hit man if the blue key (he was using it as a signal) would open something. (He laughed)It did open something in the end. It opened her conscience.
Her conscience was a malfunctioning part of her however as in death the conscience in theory can not grow. (Just relive) (Who really knows)
In this film I believe we are watching the fanaticizes and struggles with realities of the soul of a life that ended in suicide.
The first scene dancers (very pleasant) was a white noise for a troubled ghost that wanted to change the past or explain it away with multiple what ifs.
An imagined blue key appears in the fantasy of the suicide victim early in the film. The moment it is used in an imagined blue box the film becomes a test of what is real and what is in a dimension of after death.
To view life after death is what I believe the director Lynch pulls off on us. Why should we know it's a dead persons dimension we are in when the dead person can't even seem to tell.
She takes on several identities in her post mortem. Betty, the chosen actress, a waitress slut.
Betty I call "Blameless Betty". It is the not my fault thinking that made hiring a hit man seem all right.
Isn't it a form of hell to not fully realize you are not living. A living hell is to ignore what one has done to ones self and blame others for ones place in life.
Remember the demon? It sure left the demon with little to do but wait for the cruel truth to go round and round. For anyone having fear looking at the demon meant death.
All good films I like to connect to. Connecting to this one was disturbing. Mulholland Drive was a great "feel bad" movie.
I just keep finding reviewers who I believe missed the point 96% in my opinion.
Steven
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