What the hell is Mulholland Road talking about?

After "Mulholland Road", take a deep breath! Not because I haven't had a similar nightmare, but because I didn't expect someone to show it on the big screen so truly. Experiencing other people's nightmares may be more terrible than your own. I'm surprised that david lynch can think of such a nightmare. If he is not proficient in Freud's dream interpretation, then his IQ is at least above 160, or is this david lynch's own nightmare? I say this because when I try to analyze this seemingly absurd nightmare with Freud's dream interpretation method, I find that some quite reasonable factors can be solved from this nightmare, and some bizarre dreams can actually be solved! So I almost doubt the fiction of this nightmare! Next, I dared to try to analyze the nightmare of "Mulholland Road" with Freund's dream interpretation.

First of all, I briefly introduce several related psychological concepts and Freud's theory about dreams:

1. Freud believed that dreams are the realization of wishes. The analytic formula of dream is: dream = repressed desire+disguised satisfaction. In other words, a dream is always used to express a wish of the dreamer, but the satisfaction of this wish may be disguised and not so obvious.

2. Imitation: Simply put, it is a psychological phenomenon that one person replaces another person with himself for some reason. This appears many times in the dream of Mulholland Road.

Next, I will disturb the narrative order of the film to explain the background of this dream, which is the real part of the film. The reality I described may be far from what you understand, but please listen to me patiently, and I will explain many details step by step later. )

in today's world

Diane grew up in Ontario, Canada, and was taken care of by her uncle and aunt who used to be an actress. Probably influenced by her aunt, she always wanted to be an excellent actress and get ahead in Hollywood. She won the first prize in a jitterbug dance competition, became famous in one fell swoop, and entered the show business from then on. After her uncle and aunt died, she came to Hollywood alone. Like many other girls who came to Hollywood to find their dreams, she rented a humble house and took part in the audition, waiting for which director to choose one day and became famous in one fell swoop.

Soon, a film called The Story of Sylvia North wanted a heroine, and Diane went to the audition. She didn't succeed, but a woman named Camilla conquered the judges with almost perfect performance in the audition, got the role and became famous at one fell swoop. Diane and Camilla met and became good friends. Diane played a small role in Camilla's films with her help. During this period, Camilla has become the darling of the film company, while Diane and Camilla have become gay couples. Camilla often comes to Diane's house to meet her in order to hide her eyes and ears. Although Camilla seems indifferent to their relationship, Diana regards Camilla as a lover. Later, there was a big budget movie to recruit the heroine. On the set, directors Adam and Camilla fell in love at first sight, and Camilla naturally became the heroine and Adam's girlfriend. Diane still plays a small role in this film. But Diane, who loves Camilla deeply, can't accept the close relationship between Camilla and Adam. Diane had a big fight with Camilla at home because she saw Camilla flirting with Adam on the set.

Diane, who is insane, is crying and masturbating at home. The phone rang. It's Camilla. Camilla sent a car to take Diane to Mulholland Road. The car suddenly stopped on Mulholland Road. Diane is a little scared. He asked the driver, "What are you doing? Shouldn't we stop here? " The driver turned around and said, "I have a surprise for you." Camilla appeared beside the car. She took Diane across a mountain road to a mansion. It turns out that this is Adam's home, having a party, and many people from the film company and the crew are there. Diane exchanged a few pleasantries with Adam's mother Coco, and then entered the party. At the party, Diane continued to put up with the flirting between Camilla and Adam. At this moment, an actress came over, whispered a few words to Camilla and kissed her in front of Diane. Diane felt desperate. She thinks that even Camilla's gay girlfriend may have been replaced. It was not until Adam said, "Camilla and I are getting married" that Diane finally couldn't stand it.

From jealousy to hatred, Diane came to a dead end. She hired a killer in a coffee shop to kill Camilla. The murderer gave her a blue key to get something from a beggar behind the coffee shop to prove that Camilla was dead. Diana came to the beggar and the beggar threw her a blue box, which seemed to be opened with the blue key. With Camilla's body in it? ! Diane started falling apart. She seemed to see her aunt and uncle running out of the box (hallucination). She ran home in fright, went to bed panting, and had a nightmare (this nightmare is the nightmare described in detail in the first three quarters of the film). After waking up, Diane stared at the blue key on the coffee table. Remembering what she had done, she completely collapsed, and she saw her uncle and aunt chasing after her fiercely. She fled to bed, took out a pistol and shot herself.

The above is the true part of the story and the background of Diane's dream. And this dream is quite complicated. The names, identities and experiences of many characters in the dream are different from reality, and even overlap and exchange. So before explaining this dream, let me explain the relationship between the characters in the dream and reality and the main background. You can also look back at this character association table after reading my explanation of dreams.

Character association

Characters:

Diane in reality: As mentioned above, in the heroine's dream of this movie: Betty (Diane incarnate, ideal and perfect Diane, but sometimes Camilla incarnate).

In Camilla's reality: in Camilla's dream mentioned above: Rita

Diane menstruation's parents in reality: Diane menstruation's parents in the dream (dead): The stranger Betty met on the plane. In the dream, Betty's aunt (the person who left her home) is Diane's idealized aunt.

Adam in reality: director in dream: director

Cocoa in Reality: Adam in Dream Mom: Betty's Landlord

Adam's wife and her lover in reality: Adam's wife and her lover in dream: Adam's wife and her lover (their images should be fictional. )

The blonde who kissed Camilla at the party in reality: probably one of the actresses in the cast. In the dream: the name in the dream is Camilla! It was the film company that forced Adam to choose an actress.

In reality, the man who spit coffee once appeared at the party, probably one of the crew members. In the dream, members of the behind-the-scenes forces of the film company threatened Adam to choose Camilla they recommended as the heroine.

The real old man with white beard: one of the performers of the silent theater in the dream: the owner of the hotel where Adam stayed when he had an accident. Reality: He appeared at the party, possibly as an actor (is there any other identity? ) Dream: The boss behind the scenes of the film company once threatened Adam and woke Diane up with a smile.

Coffee shop waitress (she only has different names in reality and dreams, but she has the same identity. ) In reality: Name: Betty (this is the source of Diane's name in the dream) Dream: Name: Diane (the name of the waiter in the dream became Rita's clue to trace her identity)

In the reality of Passerby A, Diane once met a killer in a coffee shop. In his dream, he sought the help of a psychiatrist in a coffee shop because he dreamed of a beggar.

The Beggar's Reality: The Man Who Gave Diane the Blue Box instead of the Killer's Dream: The Devil Behind the Wall (Scaring Passers-by)

In a nightmare

In that coffee shop, two men are talking. One of them is the man Diane met when she was dealing with the killer in the coffee shop (call him a passerby for the time being), and the other seems to be a psychologist. Passerby A said 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 real beggar is the person who gave Diane the blue box instead of the murderer, and is the witness of Diane's crime. Diane is very afraid of seeing beggars, but it is precisely because beggars are witnesses of Diane's crimes that Diane herself doesn't want to mention beggars. So in the dream, Diane imitated herself as a passerby who didn't know her crime, put herself in the shell of a passerby, and indirectly vented her fear of beggars.

Dream 4: Director Adam is looking for a heroine for one of his blockbusters, but the behind-the-scenes forces of the production company sent a photo of Camilla with blonde hair and blue eyes, forcing Adam to choose her as the heroine. Adam left angrily. When he got home, he found his wife fooling around with the cleaner. In a rage, Adam destroyed his wife's jewelry, but was kicked out of the house after being beaten up by his wife's lover.

Analysis: (1) Adam is the key figure that led Camilla to leave Diane. In Diane's mind, besides hating Camilla for leaving her, there is of course hating Adam. Therefore, he retaliated against Adam in a cruel way in his dream. He was intimidated by the company, his wife was fooling around with someone else, and he was kicked out of the house. Adam did get divorced in reality. He mentioned at the party that he got the pool and his ex-wife got the pool cleaner. But with Adam's character, he should not mention to others his disgraceful experience of being repaired by his wife and cleaner, so this dream and the image of Adam's wife and her lover should be fabricated by Diane. (2) The significance of the casting storm and why Camilla was replaced by a blonde will be analyzed after the whole dream appears completely.

The fifth paragraph in the dream: the killer appeared: he killed a man with long hair, accidentally found the female secretary and wanted to kill him. He finally killed the female secretary, was found by the cleaner, killed the cleaner, and shot at the vacuum cleaner because of the noise of the vacuum cleaner, which led to a loud alarm. Analysis: Diane knows that Camilla has been killed by the killer. Will anyone know? This strong suspicion and fear is manifested in the dream. 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: (1) Diane's aunt used to be a Hollywood actress, but later she went to Canada and died, which Diane said at Adam's ball. In the dream, she made up an idealized aunt-she has interpersonal relationships in Hollywood (because in later dreams, Betty's auditioning person is her aunt's friend) and left her a pretty good place to live. In reality, Diane is very lonely and helpless. She came to Hollywood alone and could only afford a humble house. And the image of this aunt should also be what Diane's aunt used to look like in reality. (2) The image of the landlord Coco comes from Adam's mother in reality. At the dance, Diane and Coco had a simple talk, and Coco was a little sympathetic to Diane's fate. On the contrary, when Adam said, "Camilla and I are getting married," Coco showed a hint of disdain. Cocoa's "kindness" made Cocoa a very enthusiastic landlord in her dream.

Betty found Camilla hiding in the bathroom. She thinks Camilla is a friend of menstruation. Camilla lost her memory in a car accident and completely forgot her name and identity. She had to call herself Rita. Betty understood what happened to Rita and decided to help her find out the truth. They found a lot of cash and a blue key in Rita's handbag. Analysis: (1) Camilla's images in reality and dreams are completely different. Camilla in reality feels like an ice beauty in Leng Yan. In the dream, she became a helpless and melancholy Rita, which is actually Diane's temperament in reality. The relationship between Camilla and Diane was reversed in the dream. Diane wants to be strong, but weak Rita has to live on her own. Let Camilla stay with her forever-this is one of Diane's strongest wishes. And Camilla is only possible if she 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 Diane paid the killer. In reality, Diane just hired a killer with a pile of paper money, but in her dream, Rita had much more money in her bag. Because Diane has a hidden wish, that is, even if Camilla dies, she will not die of a cheap killer she hired, but should die more "valuable"! This blue key is used to open the blue box, which contains something to prove that Camilla is dead.

The eighth paragraph of the dream: the director Adam checked into a cheap hotel, and the owner of the hotel told him that his bank account was closed, and then Adam was threatened by a mysterious cowboy, who was obviously the boss behind the film company. Analysis: The cowboy said to Adam, Well done, you will see me again. If you don't do well, you will see me again twice. Goodbye means seeing you in heaven. To meet twice is to meet once alive and once after death.

Dream paragraph 9: Betty is going to audition, and she will check her lines with Rita at home first. At the audition the next day, her perfect performance conquered everyone, and he was taken to the set to meet 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. At the moment of their eye contact, both of them seemed to get an electric shock. But Betty fled the set for no reason on the grounds of helping Rita. Analysis: (1) This is a key dream in the film. As mentioned earlier, the status of Diane and Camilla can be interchanged in the dream. Betty is not only Diane's ideal image, but also has Camilla temperament in reality. It is not difficult to understand that Camilla is better than Diane in all aspects, and Diane certainly wants to be like Camilla. This dream happened in reality, but it was not Diane who successfully auditioned, but Camilla! Here, Betty's identity has more become the embodiment of Camilla in reality. (Diane cooperated with Camilla here, and Diane certainly hopes to audition successfully like Camilla. In reality, it was Camilla who fell in love with Adam at first sight on the set. Adam's phrase "This is the girl I am looking for" was really meant for Camilla. But Diane wished it had never happened. She wished Adam had chosen another girl instead of Camilla, so that Camilla could stay with her all the time. Therefore, she invented a "casting storm" in her dream. Adam chose a girl who had nothing to do with himself under the control of the behind-the-scenes forces of the film company. Adam chose a blonde Camilla he didn't know at all, instead of his own Camilla (Rita). This is Diane's wish that "Adam didn't choose Camilla during the audition" after "Casting Storm Camouflage". This is also the significance of casting storm. If Diane in reality has the chance to be selected successfully, she will be attracted by director Adam, and will be the opposite of Camilla in reality. She would rather lose the election than leave Camilla. It was Camilla's new lover who succeeded, replacing the gay identity of the hero in reality. She is regarded as the ultimate success by the protagonist. (2) In fact, in reality, there have been two casting. The first time was the story of Sylvia North by Bob Brock (the director who auditioned for Betty in The Room of Dreams). Camilla and Diane both went to the audition and met at that time. Camilla got the role and became famous ever since. The last time was an audition for Adam's film. Dreams have the function of condensation, and Diane condenses these two experiences here.

Dream paragraph 10: 1. Rita saw a waiter's name tag "Diane" in the cafe, and she remembered that her name might be Diane. They found Diane's apartment and found a woman rotting in bed! Analysis: Diane's deep fear finally appeared in her dream! That apartment is indeed the apartment where Diane lives 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 that Diane imagined. Her death has something to do with the name Diane. "Camilla was killed by Diane!" Diane's consciousness is the cause of this dream. In the dream, when they approached Diane's apartment, they saw several men who looked like bodyguards. One of them picked up a blonde. They avoid these people because they are afraid. Analysis: In reality, Camilla is at least a famous star and seems to be the darling of film companies. So she came to Diane's house to hide her eyes and ears, always wearing a golden wig and being escorted by bodyguards. This is the source of the image of the dream bodyguard and blonde.

Dream paragraph 1 1: Betty and Rita fled their homes, and Rita felt that she would suffer the same fate. Betty, help her put on the blonde wig. Betty invited Rita to sleep in the same bed, and they made love and expressed their love to each other. Analysis: (1) Camilla's desire to return to her side has been temporarily satisfied. But Diane subconsciously realized that Camilla was gone, so the soundtrack of this passage was a bit "Where are you going?" (2) Rita finally wore a golden wig, which should be the image of Camilla every time she appeared at Diane's house. Only when Camilla has blonde hair does she belong to Diane completely.

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 shaking violently under the stage. Rita found the blue box in her bag. Analysis: This nightmare is coming to an end! The Silent Theatre is actually the place where Diane and Camilla have been in reality, which can be seen from an actor in the Silent Theatre, 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(Diane) who realized this has been convulsing. At the same time, the blue box also appeared, the most prominent contradiction in reality appeared in the dream, and everything became more and more "real". The "silent" theater appeared in this dream because of its special performance theme, and became the combination point of dream and reality.

Dream paragraph 13: When they got home, Rita took out the blue key and Betty disappeared. Rita opened the blue box alone, and the camera entered the box, and it was dark inside. Analysis: The dream is coming to an end. Betty is missing. Rita at this time is almost the embodiment of Diane. It seems that Rita (actually Diane herself) is the only one left in the world, and she bears 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 Diane's apartment. Sleeping in bed is what Diane's apartment looks like in her 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. In the next scene, Diane is lying on the bed in the same sleeping position as the corpse, and her friend who changed rooms comes to get something. Her knocking at the door woke Diane up. Analysis: Diane has been in a state of half dream and half awake. " Beauty, it's time to get up! "Is this what people used to say to Diana? Is it a cowboy? Cowboys only appeared at Adam's party once in reality, and they never showed their faces. If the cowboy said that, was the cowboy Diane's lover? It is more reasonable that Diane and Camilla used to say this to each other, or just a friend who knocked at the door, but why did the speaker become a cowboy in his dream? This is actually an illusion formed by the intersection of Diane's dream and reality. What really woke Diane up was the killer who put the key, but the role of the cowboy in her dream was a killer, so Diane woke her up in her dream as a cowboy. (Tock revision) The above is my analysis of the nightmare of "Muhelan Road". I want to say that my understanding of dreams is superficial. Some of the above analysis of this dream is just my speculation, and some are just one of my reasonable speculations. If I explain my dream like this, I may make a fool of myself in front of insiders. But I hope this film review can be used as a starting point for some psychological professionals who read this article to analyze this nightmare with professional dream interpretation methods. The cowboy should be the imaginary father of the protagonist, but in reality he may be the one who really cares about himself. But I think cowboys may represent the strength of the heroine's inner desire. For example, you can make the director give in. Waking her up means that the heroine longs for a powerful force to help her and achieve her.