Next, I will try to explain this dream in the order of the movie plot.
The film begins with several couples dancing in front of a virtual red screen, and their images are copied many times. Then the image of Dane appeared. She seems to be watching them dance, and her face is full of excitement and longing. Then Dane and her uncle and aunt snuggled up and appeared. This passage tells the story of Dane-she was raised by her uncle and aunt, and her ideal-Hollywood life.
The second shot is Dane's first perspective shot. With the heavy breathing, the bed, sheets and pillows shook in front of her eyes. When the camera faded out, it was actually Dane who started to enter the dream.
Nightmare
Dream paragraph 1: The lens fades in, which is a street sign of Mulholland Road. In reality, this image was actually seen by Dane while driving to Adam's party, but in the dream, the role was replaced by Camilla. When the car stopped suddenly, Camilla asked the same question as Dane in reality: "What are you doing? Shouldn't we stop here? " The driver pointed a pistol at her and ordered her to get off. At this moment, a sports car full of racers collided with Camilla's car. Everyone was killed except Camilla. She staggered down the hill and hid in an apartment. After learning the news of the car accident, the behind-the-scenes personnel of the film company exchanged phone calls to confirm Camilla's disappearance. And the last ringing phone is Dane's home phone in reality.
Analysis: What is Dane's strongest mood and desire before going to bed? I think it's regret and guilt. She hoped Camilla wasn't dead. So, in my dream, Camilla dodged a bullet. But Dane still has a demon at work. She doesn't want to admit or believe that she hired a lame killer to kill Camilla. In other words, she hoped that it was not herself who killed Camilla. So, in her dream, the man who tried to kill Camilla became the behind-the-scenes man of the film company. Dion's consciousness has been continuing in his dream, developing another main thread of the dream-the experience of director Adam and the casting storm. Of course, it has other meanings.
The second part of the dream: Betty comes to Hollywood from Canada. She said goodbye to an old couple she met on the plane at the airport. The old couple expressed their heartfelt wishes to Betty. Then Betty took a taxi to the apartment where her period left her.
Analysis: (1) Betty is the incarnation of Dane. Her name comes from the name of the waitress Dane caught a glimpse of in the cafe. Betty's appearance is cheerful, optimistic, confident and sincere, which is quite different from Dane's real image of decadence, poverty and inferiority. Betty is actually an idealized image that Dane deeply hopes to become! What happened to Dane made her escape from her true self, so in her dream, she simply changed her name. (2) The image of the old couple is actually Dane's uncle and aunt, and one of the important reasons why Dane finally committed suicide is that he didn't dare to face the uncle and aunt who raised him and placed great hopes on him. But here, my uncle and aunt became strangers for two reasons: (a) Dane wanted to alleviate his guilt, after all, only strangers were full of hope for themselves; (b) Dane wanted her uncle and aunt to live, so she invented an idealized aunt.
The third paragraph of the dream: In a coffee shop, two men are chatting. One of them is someone Dane met in a coffee shop when dealing with the killer, and the other seems to be a psychiatrist. The man said that he saw the devil behind the wall behind the coffee shop. When they walked out of the shop, a devil appeared behind the wall-a beggar.
Analysis: The beggar in reality is the person who gave the blue box to Dane instead of the killer, and is the witness of Dane's crime. Deep down, Dane was very afraid of seeing a beggar, and even more reluctant to mention the man himself. So in the dream, Dane imitated himself as a passerby, put himself in the shell of a passerby, and indirectly vented his fear of beggars.
Dream 4: Director Adam is looking for a heroine for a big-budget movie, but the behind-the-scenes forces of the production company sent a photo of Camilla with blonde hair and blue eyes, forcing Julia to be chosen as the heroine. Adam left angrily. When he got home, he found his wife fooling around with the cleaner. Adam got his wife's jewelry back in a rage, but his wife's lover beat him up and kicked him out of the house.
Analysis: (1) Adam is the key figure that led Camilla to leave Dane. In Dane's consciousness, there is hatred for Adam as well as Camilla leaving her. Therefore, in the dream, she ruthlessly retaliated against Adam: he was threatened by the company, his wife was fooling around with others, and he was kicked out of the house. ...
The fifth paragraph of the dream: the killer appeared. He killed a man with long hair and accidentally bumped into a female secretary. He finally killed the female secretary and was found by the cleaner. He killed the cleaner and accidentally hit the vacuum cleaner, causing a big alarm.
Analysis: Dane knows that Camilla has been killed by the killer. Will anyone know? This strong suspicion and fear is manifested in the fact that after the murderer killed, shattered glass repeatedly missed, and the more he tried to cover up the fact of killing, the more self-defeating.
The sixth paragraph of the dream: Betty comes to the apartment left by her aunt, and the landlord Coco comes to meet her. The apartment is luxurious and comfortable, and Betty is very satisfied. (Analysis omitted)
Paragraph 7 of the dream: Betty found Camilla hiding in the bathroom. Camilla lost her memory in the car accident and completely forgot her name and identity. She had to call herself Rita. After Betty learned what happened to Rita, she decided to help Rita find out the truth. They found a lot of cash and a blue key in Rita's handbag.
Analysis: (1) In reality, Camilla is an ice beauty in Leng Yan, but in her dream, she becomes a helpless and melancholy Rita, which is actually Dane's temperament in reality. The relationship between Camilla and Dane was reversed in the dream. Dane wants her (Betty) to be a strong person, while the weak Rita has to live on her own and keep Camilla by her side forever. This is one of Dane's strongest wishes. And this is only possible if Camilla is weak. So in the dream, Camilla lost her memory and became a weak person attached to Betty. (2) The intention of money comes from the money Dane paid to the killer. In reality, Dane just hired a killer with a pile of paper money, but in the dream, Rita had much more money in her bag. Because Dane has a hidden wish, that is, even if Camilla dies, she will not die of the cheap killer she hired, but should die more "valuable"! (3) The blue key is the key to open the blue box containing something that proves Camilla's death.
Dream paragraph 8: Director Adam checked into a cheap hotel, and the owner told him that his bank account was closed, and then Adam was threatened by a mysterious cowboy, who was obviously a thug behind the film company.
Analysis: The continuation of The Casting Storm.
Dream paragraph 9: Betty went to the audition, and her perfect performance conquered everyone. She was taken to the set to meet the director Adam. At this time, Camilla, the blonde recommended by the film company, was auditioning, and Adam reluctantly compromised. He said, "This is the girl I am looking for." But he noticed Betty beside him. When they make eye contact, they all feel like getting an electric shock. But Betty fled the set for no reason on the grounds of helping Rita.
Analysis: This is a key dream in the film. As mentioned above, the status of Dane and Camilla is interchangeable in the dream. Betty is not only Dane's ideal image, but also has Camilla's temperament in reality. It is not difficult to understand that Dane wants to be like Camilla. This dream happened in reality, but it was not Dane who successfully auditioned, but Camilla! Here, Betty's identity has more become the embodiment of Camilla in reality. (Here, Dane collaborates with the dream Camilla. In reality, it was Camilla who fell in love with Adam at first sight on the set. Adam's sentence "This is the girl I am looking for" should also be said to Camilla. But Dane wished this had never happened. She hoped that Adam had chosen other girls instead of Camilla. Therefore, in her dream, she invented a "casting storm" in which the forces behind the film company manipulated Adam to choose a girl who had nothing to do with herself. Leah was chosen as a blonde Camilla she didn't know at all, not her own Camilla (Rita). This is the satisfaction of Dane's wish that Adam didn't choose Camilla in the audition after the casting storm was disguised. This is also the significance of the casting storm, and it is also the reason why the dream Camilla was replaced by an unknown blonde. Then, when Adam and Betty fell in love at first sight, Dane's consciousness forced Betty and Adam to separate, so Betty left the set.
Dream paragraph 10: Rita saw the name tag "Dane" of a waiter in the cafe, and she remembered that her name might be Dane. They found Dane's apartment and found a woman rotting in bed!
Analysis: Dane's deep fear finally appeared in his dream! That apartment is indeed Dane's apartment in reality. I wonder if you have seen the rotting body carefully: black pajamas, black curly hair and a shawl-this is what Camilla looks like in reality! This is actually the death of Camilla imagined by Dane. Her death has something to do with the name Dane. "Camilla was killed by Dane!" This consciousness of Dane is the cause of this dream.
Dream paragraph 1 1: Betty and Rita fled their homes, and Rita felt that she would suffer the same fate. Betty helped her change into a golden wig. Betty invited Rita to sleep in the same bed, and they made love and expressed their love to each other.
Analysis: Dion's fantasy that Camilla's desire to return to her side was temporarily satisfied.
Dream paragraph 12: Rita kept calling the word "silence" in Spanish in her dream. Betty woke her up. They came to a theater called "Silence" to watch the performance. The theme of the performance is "What you see and hear is an illusion, an illusion." Betty kept sobbing and even trembled violently under the stage. Rita found the blue box in her bag.
Analysis: This nightmare is coming to an end! The "Silence" theater is actually the place where Dane and Camilla have been in reality, which can be seen from an actor in the "Silence" theater-the old man with white beard. In the previous dream, he was the owner of the hotel where Adam stayed when he was in trouble. The actor in the "Silence" theater is his true identity. The theme of the performance is to expose illusions, which just corresponds to the fact that dreams are illusory and cruel reality is coming. So Betty (Dane), who realized this, kept twitching. At the same time, the blue box also appeared, and the "silent" theater became the combination of dream and reality.
When they got home, Rita took out the blue key. At this moment, Betty disappeared. Rita opened the blue box by herself and the camera entered the box. It's dark.
Analysis: The dream is coming to an end. Betty disappeared, and Rita was almost the incarnation of Dane at this moment. It seems that Rita (Dane) is the only one in the world, carrying her sins (blue box) helplessly and fearfully.
Dream paragraph 14: The end of the dream: Betty's aunt looked around her apartment and left. The camera suddenly turned to Dane's apartment. Sleeping in bed is like a dead body in Dane's apartment in a dream. The cowboy pushed open the door and said, "Beauty, it's time to get up!" " "The camera turned back to bed, the body has rotted! The nightmare is over.
My understanding of dreams is superficial. The above analysis, some just speculation, some just one of several kinds of speculation. I use Freud's method to interpret dreams, which may make me laugh in front of insiders. However, I hope this film review can inspire some psychologists who read this article to analyze this nightmare with professional dream interpretation methods.
Crazy Diamond
-Analysis of the characters in andrew chow's Mulan Road.
Mulholland Road is a strange literary film. Its ideological connotation of exposing Hollywood dream machine is unambiguous, but its appearance is puzzling. In other words, this is a work that "water" is turbid, but it can "bottom out". In this sense, its external content is more worth pondering than its deep meaning.
Every year, thousands of teenagers come to Hollywood from all over the world, hoping to become famous. But to become famous in Hollywood, the probability is not much higher than the lottery. No matter how talented you are, you are often useless. Sometimes good luck and "dedication" are more important.
Boys and girls who came with the dream of becoming stars eventually went to restaurants to serve vegetables, sell medicines and engage in prostitution. When they are struggling, they will fight with each other, help and encourage each other, and form a friendship that is in the same boat. This kind of friendship is sometimes unconstrained by gender. But when one of them becomes famous, it is almost impossible to maintain this "love".
It is not difficult to see that Betty and Dane are the same person. When she first came to Hollywood, she was full of hope, brilliant and eye-catching. But somehow, since she lost a chance to play and her lover was taken away, she became a "vengeance".
There is a unanimous view among American fans that the first two-thirds of the film is a dream of Dane, and the whole story is a fantasy before Dane bribed the killer to commit suicide, which is based on facts, but more of a fantasy. However, the author thinks that we can try to treat any part of the film as a "real" event and the other part as a dream, because any interpretation from any angle makes sense, but it can't be completely justified, because any reasoning has a lot of context.
Both Betty the Swallow and Dane in a trance are just two different stages of entering Hollywood, reflecting the two poles of career and life. A bolder assumption: maybe all the actresses in the film are one or two people or one or two people. For example, the restaurant waiter and street prostitute who look exactly like Dane may hint at the various fates of the same group of people, and several vivid supporting actresses in the film, including Coco, Betty's neighbor and the woman in the theater box, all seem to come from Sunset Avenue and are the deformation of that outdated female star.
Similarly, the villain in the wheelchair obviously implies the power behind the Hollywood machine, while the cowboy on the top of the mountain is the embodiment of manipulating the stars. Cowboys are originally American myths shaped by movies, so the cowboys here symbolize the economic and spiritual roots of Hollywood from both the front and the back. Simply put, cowboys are old-fashioned. They will only choose stars like embroidered pillows, ignoring the truly talented people.
The old couple who appeared twice can be described as the embodiment of secular ideas: when you have just set foot on the road of being a star, your family and friends may bless you; They will laugh at you when your dreams are shattered and you are down and out.
Dane paid 50,000 yuan to kill his lover, but it actually succeeded, because the film implied this with the blue key on the table. But she fantasized that her lover didn't die, magically escaped, and returned to her after amnesia. She summed up the whole story with Ai Xue's painting skills. As for whether the arrogant director Adam is the object of her vendetta, there are many understandings. The author thinks that a young man who killed three people in the office can also be regarded as part of Dion's revenge, because the victim is also a director. Obviously it's not Adam, but the characters in the film are detachable, otherwise the scene seems to be off topic. This scene is borrowed from Quentin? Talentino (director of Pulp Fiction) has surpassed him in style, and the combination of violence and humor is simply shine on you and better than blue.
Camilla is the most difficult person to mess with. In the last part of the film, Camilla with brown hair and Camilla with blond hair both appeared. Of course, the brunette is the object pursued by the director and Dane, but why did Camilla become blonde in Dane's dream? The author's explanation is that Camilla with blonde hair and blue eyes can be regarded as a projection of Dane himself-that person looks a bit like Dane. At the party, Dane wants to make out with Camilla openly. Dane must hope that she can have a big boss behind the scenes to support her and make the director change his mind and accept her as the leading role.
Some fragments in the film have nostalgic beauty and faint sadness. "Silent Theater" is a dream in a dream. The stars abandoned by the times are sitting under the stage, but the performers on the stage are lip-synching. Although it is lip-synching, it is a thrilling "cry" (Roy? Orbison original, Rebecca? Dale. Riel (singing in Spanish), seems to be Tom? Hanks' monologue in The Philadelphia Story is accompanied by Callas' opera aria. You may not understand the lyrics, but you can feel the psychological state of the characters when they reach the emotional climax.
What exactly is the blue box brought out by this scene? The simplest explanation is that the door crossing different fields has the same effect as the door in Monster Company and the car in Back to the Future. On the other hand, the box symbolizes TV, because David? Lynch originally wanted to make this movie into a TV series, but later the TV company changed its mind and made this movie halfway. Filmmakers have always looked down on TV producers. Perhaps in their view, the blue box can devour innocence and spit it out into residue. There is also a Freudian psychological explanation that the combination of keys and boxes is understood as sex. I tend to understand it as "fate"-being a star in Hollywood, luck is more important than anything else; Other industries also need good luck, but stars are the most indispensable. What's the use of your struggle when your life is in the hands of street beggars? This may be the pessimistic thought that the director wants to convey, but the film proves it everywhere. Even Adam, the all-around director, can't go bankrupt overnight, can he?
Everyone knows that Hollywood is a dream factory, but no one is like David. Lynch so boldly revealed the nature of his nightmare. It is exaggerated to say that the process of star-making is a process of personality division, and David? Lynch reflects the Hollywood dream, but he uses the technique of "plot splitting", which may be a subconscious comparison.