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Subject: Re: The meaning of Mulholland Drive
Date: Apr 20, 2002
Your idea (that the movie begins chronologically when Betty/Diane answers the phone to learn the hit on Rita/Camilla has been unsuccessful, and that she (Diane) subsequently daydreams the entire bit about arriving as Betty and acting as sleuth/helper/lover to Rita/Camilla) is intriguing. From that perspective, Betty/Diane is the filmās central character. Itās all from her point of view. Itās her daydream. Itās about her jealousy, her guilt, her fantasy of coming to her loverās rescue (when in fact sheās the one who put her in danger). It makes sense because thatās what a jilted lover would do÷fantasize, cry, masturbate, feel angry, feel guilty, want their lover dead, want to be their loverās rescuer, perhaps commit suicide. Of course, it doesnāt begin to explain the other elements of the movie (the scary monster guy behind the dumpster, the key and blue box, the weird old couple, the significance of Club Silencio), but who the hell knows, this frickin movie made no sense.
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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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» Re: The meaning of Mulholland Drive « from Tashtigo707, Apr 20, 2002
wow from Rosanna, Jun 10, 2002
Re: wow from Joshua (editor of Offoffoff), Jun 12, 2002
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PCP from Kilgore Trout, Sep 1, 2002
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