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What was inside the blue box in Mulholland Drive?
The blue box is a symbolic portal that separates the self Diane is and the dream-self she wishes she were (“Betty”). Its opening returns Diane to brutal reality. The Winkies bum, a symbol of self-loathing and deterioration, haunts Diane, along with the happy couple who represent lost innocence, and Diane kills herself.
What does Blue represent in Mulholland Drive?
The most important object is the blue box, as it is essentially a portal that transitions between reality and dream occurrences (which is why in the scene with the hobo he is holding it). Furthermore, it also symbolizes the transition between life and death and even rationality and insanity.
What is the message of Mulholland Drive?
Just the same, Mulholland Drive does have a driving, overall message: that Hollywood is a merciless, destructive place where people with dreams, talent, and inspiration are crushed beneath the boot-heel of a vicious power- and profit-driven system.
What’s so special about Mulholland Drive?
The road offers outstanding views of the Los Angeles Basin, the San Fernando Valley, Downtown Los Angeles and the Hollywood Sign. Mulholland Drive has some of the most exclusive and expensive homes in the world, housing mainly Hollywood celebrities.
What happens at the end of Mulholland Drive?
The Ending of Mulholland Drive shows us that Diane is an unsuccessful actress in love with the successful Camilla. Outraged for being ditched, Diane hires a hitman to kill Camilla. Unable to come to terms with having Camilla killed, Diane’s guilt causes her to shoot herself at the end of Mulholland Drive.
What is Mulholland Drive about?
The Trauma, the Dream, and the dream as trauma. Mulholland Drive is the greatest study of a dream – and therefore of a trauma – ever seen in theatres, which takes place on three interlacing and overlapping levels – Reality, Dream and Subconscious.
What happened to Camilla in the movie Mulholland Drive?
The film – and therefore the dream – actually opens with a mistaken identity: in the limousine along Mulholland Drive, Camilla turns into Diane in the dream – here’s the dissociation taking place – and she survives a fatal road accident.
Is Mulholland Drive the best of David Lynch’s films?
That doesn’t necessarily mean Mulholland Drive is the best of Lynch’s, nor that his following works fail to meet expectations: it simply means this movie marks a definitive point of arrival.
What does a first watch of Mulholland Dr results into?
A first watch of Mulholland Dr. results into the following: A head scratch, confusion, brainstorming, realization, acceptance.