Mulholland Drive

Decided at 12am this morning that it was the perfect time to widen my scope of viewing and finally get round to watching this film. It was recommended to me that I watch the film while either drunk or high on painkillers (if I were supposed to be), and on watching I can quite clearly see why, it is one of the most bizarre films I've seen (hence it classing as a surrealist film, I suppose) but it was well worth the watch. The whole film pretty much is open to discussion at to precisely what is meant, and what parts are real and what parts are supposed to be dreams.

***SPOILERS DEAD AHEAD***
don't read on if you haven't seen the film.







































































































One of the films main grey areas is whether the whole first 2 hours of the film is in fact a dream, but if it is, then whose dream? It could be Betty/Diane's dream but why then does her name change shouldn't she recognise her own name/corpse if the dream is her's. It seems illogical that it would be anyone else's dream as it all centres on things improving for Betty, it seems like things are going better for her in the dream than for Diane in what we will accept for now as "reality". It would appear to be a dream (in comparison to the second part) as Betty/Diane has Camilla/Rita for herself as she wanted and her Aunt isn't actually dead (though "acting in Canada" is a Hollywood euphemism), and she has a much nicer apartments and appears to have far better job hopes. There is also the fact that the blonde Camilla is having large amounts of help getting parts in the "dream" which could be seen as Betty/Diane trying to explain away various directors' preference for Camilla/Rita in "reality". One of the main suggestions that the two parts cannot both be reality is the fact that it would be chronologically impossible, certain events (such as Adam's marriage breakdown) occur in the first part but have already occured in the second part, whereas more major events (such as the hit on Camilla/Rita, which is planned in the second part but occurs in the first) would appear to show the second part of the film to be earlier than the first part.

But I still have no idea about several things. Who is the guy behind winkies? who are the insane old people who travel with Betty and send Diane insane? and What is the blue box?