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Subject: Re: Blue Box and the key
Date: Oct 29, 2002
The "face" behind the wall is the face of death. When Diane shoots herself, smoke fills the room to indicate the beginning of the dream segment and images are superimposed on the smoke to show the audience what is happening in the dreams.
The first "dream" image superimposed on the smoke is the face of death. This is then quickly replaced by the images of a happy, successful Diane and the submissive, dependent Camilla. The face of death represents Diane's reality - the fact that she's just shot herself and is seconds away from "silence". This is too horrible to accept so her mind replaces that image with a dream of everything she ever wanted - success in acting, a Camilla that is totally dependent on her instead of just using her, etc.
The blue key and blue box are the main objects her mind is using to "hide" the terrible truth of death within her dream of perfection. However, the truth is constantly surfacing during her final dream of perfection.
The scene with the 2 men in Winkies is one of the dream segments where the truth momentarily "pops" into the happy dream. When Diane paid the hit man to kill Camilla in Winkies (in reality), she noticed a man standing at the counter (and noticed a waitress named "Betty"). In Diane's dream, this man is an image of the truth - that she paid someone to kill Camilla. In her dream, he is telling a story of "his dream" about a horrible face behind Winkies. The 2 men go to the back where he sees the face and dies. This is Diane's mind struggling with the fact that she is dying. She must keep the face of death hidden behind the wall of happy dreams. She saw the face of death when she first shot herself and "never wants to see that face again".
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Re: Blue Box and the key
Very good analysis...I also used the blue key as the, uh, key, to linking the two storylines together. I thought the box itself is more symbollic than what is inside, as in the mystery is "we don't know what's in the box" rather than "what's in the box." This is also reflected when the hitman tells Diane that when the deed is done, she'll see the key, and Diane asked what the key opened and we don't get an answer. So, in Diane's mind it's the same when they have a key, but don't know what it opens. When Rita does open the box, it fades to black and we find the answer...that it's not what is in the box, but that the box can finally be opened. Not sure if I'm making any sense, but it's as if the journey to discover truth is more important the truth itself, and in Diane's mind, she has been journeying to discover the truth.
The only piece I have totally no idea about is the two men in the beginning of the movie, where they are in the diner and they turn the corner to find "that face" that the one man hopes he never sees again. Since Diane is in the same position in the end of the movie (where she reads the "Betty" name tag) I assumed that she was the man in the beginning of the movie, and that man is one of the hitmen, but in her mind she thinks she is the hitman in that earlier scene?
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