So it's all just Lacanian symbolism?
>>8025669
I think I remember hearing that David Lynch is into psychoanalysis and that probably comes up a lot in his films, but I don't know any specifics. Btw, does anyone know what Mulholland Drive was about?
>>8025718
>Btw, does anyone know what Mulholland Drive was about?
A failed actresses descent into insanity. (She's probably really a crack whore though. You can do that and still be insane, how odd.)
>>8025718
Love. That's what lynch say at least.
>>8025724
Its about an ALCOHOLICs failings. The people dancing at the start have the jitters aka withdrawal. It was also a failed tv show attempt so theres bits and pieces that really show that.
Inland Empire is better.
>>8025718
lot of depth to it but the cornerstone is hollywood's tarnishing destructive effect on people
http://www.imanisystems.com/Mulholland_Drive_Analysis.html
here's an essay that makes a lot of interesting points and supports them extensively
There's a lot of Lacan in Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr, and generally in his later, more abstract films.
>>8025766
haven't seen it
i'd like to know what the fuck was going on in lost highway though
>>8025741
i don't think there's any evidence that diane's an alcoholic. the jitterbug at the beginning literally refers to the jitterbug contest she won as a kid that made her want to be a movie star. and at points in the movie there are suggestions of drugs like crack (there's a bong on her aunt's bookshelf in the dream in one shot) and of her being an escort (man with the hairy arms, hitman going for the little black book) and more that i don't remember
>>8025770
Zizek talks about bits of it in his Perverse guide to cinema. Nothing much deep or extensive but might be a start.
"This is the girl."
What did he mean by this?
>>8025994
the key moment in diane selwyn's recent life is when she pays to have camilla rhodes killed (the scene in the diner after the dream)
she says "this is the girl" to the hitman
this is such an emotional and pivotal break in her character that the phrase is repeated throughout her dream
>>8025718
>Btw, does anyone know what Mulholland Drive was about?
Jewish hollywood sex magick/ritual murder
>>8025718
I like to think that the first part of the movie is a final hallucination the actress goes through before she dies from the shot to the head.
The only good/intelligible parts of Lacan are basically postmodern poetry.
Lynch just adapts them to the big-screen.
No, it's not. It has nothing to do with Lacan. I doubt Lynch has even read Lacan. The only reason anyone would think this is because some Lacan freaks find Lynch's work useful in their attempts to give Lacan's theories intellectual and cultural validation. This isn't comparable to, say, Hitchcock's overt use (and sometimes making fun) of Freud.
>>8025718
Best explaination I found is that the whole first part of the movie is a dream and the second part is flashbacks and "actual" events that explain the whole thing.
>>8025718
The final part is the reality layer of the movie while the first part is Betty's dream where her fantasies and desires of becoming a movie star and Rita being both powerless and in love with her mix with her reality and memories (the place she actually lives in, the corpse in her bed, the key, the whole beginning of her arrival in the city). She's a failed actress, got her roles only due to Rita. When Rita breaks up with her she falls into depression until she eventually decides to have Rita killed and then kills herself. Then there is a lot of other stuff about Hollywood and how fake it is and the way it eats up people's hopes and dreams. But you have to keep in mind it was intended as a miniseries like Twin Peaks, a lot of things tie in very loosely into this bigger theme of Hollywood and dreams and illusion.
>>8027513
> implying Lost Highway isn't the most Lacanian film ever made
>>8025746
yes
Is it just me that find these So-called analyses highly reductive? You haven't interpreted a work by saying that one part is a dream, or that the narrator is crazy, or that someone rapes their sister own you know.
>>8028081
>these So-called analyses
"Meme guy detected. Hasn't contributed anything." -NY Times today's front page
