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Subject: what is real, fantasy & interpretted reality
Date: May 25, 2002
Have read many of the interpretations, all are intriguing. One thing I find intriguing about this idea, the woman who kills herself seems far to lowly to be associated with the likes of the Hollywood Stars. Thats what I like about this one, I still have a problem though. Mainly the traded appartment "fantasy" scene with Betty, I believe all scenes with Betty are some type of fantasy scene, but why in this one does she dream or fantasize they traded appartments if reality had been they were once together and now the other woman has left.
One thing that I think should be appartent is that we try and establish what seens are
A. real,
B. an interpretaion of reality but not really so, some tomes better sometimes worse
C. what scenes are complete fantasy,
The only thing I can say for sure are scenes with Betty are complete Fantasy and the scene of the suicide is reality. The rest I still need to discover.
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I'm no movie buff, but...
Hello, all. I just saw this film last night and have been in a tailspin ever since. I enjoyed reading all of your creative and insightful interpretations.
Within the first 20 min of this movie, the freakish and erratic circumstances caused me to start thinking about Jacob's Ladder (remember that one?) and I was kind-of suspicious of a "death flashback" possibility, where everything is an irrational stream of agonal thinking.
Now, forgive me since I have only seen this movie once, but, I get the sense there IS NO REAL glamorous Rita love interest. I agree that Diane/Betty is a failed actress, filled with resentment and scorn. But, I think the lost love is the neighbor, who later returns to coldly retrieve her belongings,and who I think later becomes the target of the scorned lover's (Dianne's) hit. I can't imagine that that hapless, diner-grubbing, misfit of a hitman would be logistically capable of terminating a high profile figure like the glamorous Rita character. But, the neighbor, also a brunette, seems more likely the actual figure behind the Diane fabricated "Rita" image of her. Also, the desperation and hurt Diane feels does not necessarily have to come from such a dramatic source. She is a failed actress, for God's-sake. Are we to believe she just so happens to hang with such a desirable successful actress? Is it possible that the entire engagement announcing scene is also a fatasy where Diane is trying to rationalize a possible and dramatic reason for getting dumped? There is also the matter of the piano ashtray which was repossessed by the neighbor, but seems to reappear during the fantasy acene where glamorous Rita has returned to her.
I'm fishing here. Please help me out with your comments? Thanks.
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» what is real, fantasy & interpretted reality « from Ryan, May 25, 2002
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» what is real, fantasy & interpretted reality « from Ryan, May 25, 2002
wow from Rosanna, Jun 10, 2002
Re: wow from Joshua (editor of Offoffoff), Jun 12, 2002
Re: wow from Tashtigo707, Jun 17, 2002
PCP from Kilgore Trout, Sep 1, 2002
Aunt??? from HugeElvis, Oct 14, 2002
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