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Subject: Re: Blue Box and the key
Date: Oct 27, 2002
I think the blue key and blue box are the pivotal items in the movie that Lynch used to anchor the reality segments to the dream segments. The "real" blue key was the message left by the hitman to signal the completion of the hit. The "real" blue box was something in the drawer next to the gun Diane killed herself with. Lynch is making a movie about how the real world becomes strangely abstracted in dreams, and to make things really weird, he used a final dream of a dying women who had just put a bullet in her brain. Diane's dying brain was refusing to look at reality and was attempting to fade away with a happy dream about how things could have been in a perfect world.
However, her dying brain was also linking with the terrible facts of reality. The abstract blue key was the "hidden" fact of Camilla's death. The blue key shows up with the dream Rita. The blue box is the hidden fact of Diane's own impending death and shows up with the "Death" character behind the wall and given to Diane in theatre of death. When Rita, Betty, the blue key and blue box all end up in the same location in the bedroom, Betty realizes she is dying/dead and "pops" out of the dream. The final scene in the movie begins when Rita puts the blue key into the Blue box and Diane's dying mind realizes the entire truth of what has happened as she fades into darkness.
One of Lynch's biggest clues is the next scene where the cowboy says "Time to wake up pretty girl". The movie then shows 3 separate pictures to tie the sequences together. The first picture is of Camilla dead and the second is of Diane dead - these 2 images are actually the final scenes in the movie within Diane's death dream as she "wakes up" and realizes the truth before dying. The next scene is the reality Diane in her real bed a few days before her death.
The other big clues Lynch puts in to anchor reality and dreams is the sound of the gunshot and the smoke. At the end of the movie when Diane shoots herself, the room fills with smoke which is the "dream" begining. Lynch even superimposes little images of the happy Betty from the first scenes of the movie to help get the "dream" concept across. At the start of the movie, when the dream Rita is in the wreck, there is a loud bang and the smoke appears to show where the reality sequence at the end ties back to the dream sequence in the beginning. When Diane is in the theatre of death and her mind is finally coming to grips with her impending death, the MC says "It is an illusion. Listen." and there is a loud bang followed by smoke. Diane starts to shake in her dream as her body in reality shakes from the seizures caused by her brain injury.
I think the thing that makes this movie so disturbing yet so compelling is the aspect of the journey into darkness - into death, where none of us come back to tell what it's really like.
D
The abstract blue key in the dream was the symbol of Camilla's death
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Yes, the presence of the key signifies that the hit has gone through successfully, so Camilla is dead. It doesn't really matter what it opens, it's just a symbol. Diane is staring at the key intensely when she snaps and decides to shoot herself, so staring at the key represents Diane wallowing in the realisation of what she has done.
And as for the box... well, it may not necessarily mean anything either. I did notice that there is a blue box in the bedside table that Diane pulls the gun out of. Maybe it's incorporated into her dream because it's the last thing she sees.
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