Mulholland Dr. (2001)

OKAY...
There is obviously some major confusion with this movie. I
have seen the movie multiple times, read a bunch of
theories, etc... and I have been studying filmmaking for
quite some time and I am almost positive this is what the
movie is all about.

First of all- BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Betty, one of the blonde actresses is not Betty- Her real
name is Diane Sellwyn. She lives in Canada, won a dance
contest and is now in California trying to become an
actress. Her aunt died and left her $50,000. She meets
Camilla Rhodes, a well known actress on the set of the
SYLVIA NORTH STORY directed by Adam Kescher (sp?) Here, the
two girls start having a steamy affair, except Diane's love
for Camilla is not reciprocal. Camilla tries to break up
with her, but it does not work. At the same time, she is
playing a malicious mind game with Diane-inviting her to
parties, etc., just for her to witness Camilla and Adam's
new found love relationship.

One night at a party, Diane breaks down when she realizes
Adam and Diane are to be married. Diane freaks out, and
hires a hit man to kill Camilla. He says to her that once
the deed is done, a blue key will await her in her house.

Other characters we meet during this party/time is COCO,
Adam's mom, a weird cowboy, and a mobster-looking man
sitting at a table. We also overhear important comments:
Such as Adam finding his wife and pool boy together. We
also hear Coco say, "Call me Coco Everyone else does" These
quotes will prove to be important later. We also learn that
Diane has this other fallback girlfriend with whom she has
recently broken up. Her other girlfriend has all of her
belongings at Diane's house, and wants them back.

So Diane, miserable, hires the hit man, and goes to bed
that night. Before she does, she reminisces (sp?) about her
jitterbug contest, and then goes to sleep. This is the very
beginning of the movie, during the credits, where we see
the montage of jitterbug dancers and then we see her head
going down towards red satin sheets and the screen fades to
black as she falls asleep.

The following - the body of the movie- is her dream
The dream begins with "Camilla" in the back seat of a limo,
she is almost shot by hired hit men, but a freak accident
allows her to escape-but also erases her memory.
This NEVER HAPPENED. This is just in Diane's dream. Her
guilt and regret was manifested here, she dreamt/hoped
Camilla would get away.

In Diane's dream, Diane is personified as Betty- a perfect,
innocent, wonderful actress. Something she never was nor
will be. This is sad, to me- that her dream is just made up
of hope and wishes... BUT ANYWAY

So, we meet Betty, who is really a perfect clone of Diane,
and throughout the movie "Betty" is helping this amnesiac
"Camilla" (who refers to herself as Rita). This is also
Dianes way of wishing/dreaming she and Camilla were
together--the two women do eventually become together.

We also have the character of Adam K who is directing his
movie. However, he needs to replace his lead actress in his
movie? Why, is Diane dreaming this? Well probably because
Camilla in real life is the lead actress, and she knows
Camilla will be dead, and Adam will have to re cast the
part.

Diane hates Adam and therefore gives him a terrible day in
her dream. His wife is found with a pool boy- this is
important because he mentioned this that night at the party
and she incorporated it into her dream.

Also he is forced to cast a certain "Camilla Rhodes" for
his lead actress. This is important because this is Diane
rationalizing in her dream why Camilla got all the good
parts in movies, and she got nothing.

She dreamt there were major Hollywood conspiracies, and
that even though Betty or Diane was an AMAZING actress,
Camilla Rhodes would get the part. This was evident when
Betty/Diane tried out for a part and did an amazing job.
Although the real Diane probably could not have
accomplished this feat, in her dream she saw herself doing
this, but all for nothing because Camilla Rhodes had been
chosen by the mob/weird group of people forcing Adam to
choose her. WINKIES is also important- This, to me, is just
a manifestation of lust, evil, greed, malice... All these
feelings motivate evil in our world, therefore it does it
all. It would seem that if someone saw all of this pure
evil, they would die- like the man did. WINKIES is also
important because this is where the real Diane was talking
to the hit man. She noticed a waitress, Betty- a cute,
bubbly girl- and subsequently took her personality in her
dream and switched the two names.

ALSO- important. All the mob people made Adam say "THIS IS
THE GIRL" they repeated this over and over. Note when real
Diane gives the pic of Camilla R to the hit man, she says
"THIS IS THE GIRL" She also has $50,000 in her purse. In
her dream, everyone is using her words "THIS IS THE GIRL"
about Camilla becoming the actress. Rita also has the
$50,000 in her purse. Again this is reversing/incorporating
everything in her dream... It proves it's a dream.
This is the girl" is important because it's using Diane's
own words to provoke guilt, etc. in her dream.

When RITA and BETTY find the dead body in the bed of
Diane's apt, this, to me- is just the realization in
DIANE's mind that she is in fact dead without Camilla. Like
I mentioned before, the sequence of the dead body, and most
of the movie, is a dream, and Diane went to bed quite
guilty and remorseful and probably contemplated
suicide....this is the result.

ALSO- the hit man portrayed in the dream is INCOMPETENT! He
cannot carry out a task, which is Diane's subconscious
hoping dreaming that he will mess up his job with Camilla.

SO in the dream, the two women become very very close,
something Diane always wanted, and in a way was getting...
they have a wonderful relationship where Betty/Diane is
helping Rita/Camilla, and Camilla/RITA respects and loves
Diane/Betty as well.

UNTIL....CLUB SILENCIO!!! This is my all time favorite
scene. No hay banda--- everything is an illusion-- this is
SUCH a symbolic scene- here we realize everything so far is
an illusion- that nothing is what it seems. Ever have a
dream when you know you're dreaming? Well that's what
Betty/Diane did, she started to realize this beautiful
thing with herself and Camilla/Rita was about to end, and
therefore she started convulsing.

Rebekah Del Rio serenaded us beautifully about Diane's
feelings for Camilla, and the two women begin to cry - they
know what's about to happen subconsciously... they know
it's about to end.... That would explain that. And the fact
that REBEKAH dies while singing, this shows again that its
over.

Diane awakens from her dream...
So then Betty disappears, Rita opens the box... and we have
Diane waking up from her dream. The weird cowboy says, wake
up. She had seen the Cowboy at the party and incorporated
him into her dream.

Diane is now Diane....no more Betty. The colors are less
vivid, sound track is dull, dream's over. The rest of the
movie is a series of flashbacks/present, but is all
reality.

Diane's GF comes to get the ashtray, the blue key is
there.. but wallah the key is gone! A flashback to Camilla
and Diane-- Camilla trying to break up with Diane... then
the set of the movie- Adam and Camilla- all I explained
before.

Then we have the night of the party, where Diane gets her
ideas for her dream. The limo, the cowboy, the pool story,
"call me Coco", the jitterbug contest, Adam and Camilla,
the espresso ... Such a sad movie

So in the end, the first two shots of the movie are set in
present time, everything else is a dream, go back and watch
it- It all makes sense. Then Diane wakes up and you find
out why she dreamt what she dreamt...

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Sequence of Events in Mulholland Dr. (according to
[email protected])

1. Diane wins the Jitterbug contest. Her family (the old
man and old woman) is there and cheers for her. (this is
much earlier than any of the rest of the movie. years
possibly)

2. Camilla and Diane fool around on the couch (notice the
ashtray). Camilla says that they shouldn't do that anymore.


3. Camilla and the director talk and kiss in the car for
the movie.

4. Diane gets a phone call and is told to get in the limo.
She is dropped of at the bottom of the directors house. The
dinner scene occurs in which she finds out that her lover
Camilla and the director are getting married.

5. Diane sits in a restaurant with the hit-man and tells
him to kill Camilla.

6. Diane returns home and feels guilty.

7. She falls asleep on the pillow.

8. Diane has a long dream. What happens in this dream is
coming from guilt and the people surrounding her life. The
director who is getting married to her x-lover has a
terrible life. Her x-lover loves her again. Diane is an
amazing actress and does a great job. The part with the men
in the restaurant and the monster is all just a part of the
dream. The cowboy has nothing to do with the movie for the
most part. He was just seen by Diane at one point and he
stuck with her so heÕs in her dream. Her dead aunt shows
up. She mixes up names just like everybody often does in
dreams. None of this is real. There are many things her
dream feeds off of... to many things to try to explain. The
dream begins with Camilla (Rita) in the car and ends with
the cowboy waking her up. That is all within her dream.

9. A knocking wakes Diane up. It is her neighbor looking
for the rest of her belongings. She picks up her ashtray
(notice the blue key) and says that there are detectives
looking for Diane.

10. While making coffee, Diane thinks she sees Camilla (who
she just had killed). Its just a daydream.

11. Diane goes and sits on the couch and stares at the blue
key. Someone is knocking (I think that this could be the
detectives looking for Diane). The little people are her
family representing her conscience. She gets scarred of the
knocking and the haunting visions of her loved ones and she
runs into her room and shoots herself.

THE END

This is the order in which the movie plays out.

1, 7, credits, 8, 9, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 end credits

Va rog, lamuriti-ma si pe mine in legatura cu filmul asta... eu unul n-am inteles nimic... e adevarat, are cateva scene bune (unele comice, altele scary, altele erotice...) dar, una peste alta, sunt 2 ore si ceva pierdute...  
Voi ce ziceti?

Hmmh, no comments? Merita re-vazut dupa ce se insusesc explicatiile astea.

Cred ca e unul dintre cele mai discutate filme de pe net. Toti isi dau cu parerea ,cauta simboluri ,intelesuri. Ma intreb daca ,de exemplu Naomi Watts a inteles ceva din el