Let’s begin from that which I call the essence
of this film .
When I hear around some people saying that
Betty and Diane are the same person , I really want to add: " We know this...
anything else ??!! "
According to my "gospel"… Betty and Rita are the
same person .
Since Lynch has left us a free hand in the
perception and interpretation of this film I will respect him until the end ,
and I will dare to repeat what I just said before . Betty and Rita are the same
person .
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| David Lynch |
If you see the movie with a normal attention then
easily realize that Rita and Betty are the same “thing”. One is the alter - ego of the other.
At first you conclude that Rita is the alter -
ego of Betty, then even the vice-versa makes sense .
But what about Diane ? ...you may ask.
Diane is much more than simply an alter- ego .
She’s Betty’s doppelganger . It's what she sees in the mirror and doesn’t like . It is her fear
, her obsession , her weakness .
Into that party at Adam’s ( director ) house,
Diane is almost nonexistent , as no one cares about her or her feelings. And she does nothing to resist this fact . Oh
yes , I forgot ... she cries .
She seems powerless versus Rita . As a person
who doesn’t exist , and consequently she has no objective reasons to oppose her
own " fate ". Like a phantom .
Diane feels and looks so mistreated, as only
through a vivid nightmare one can feel like that .
So… Betty , Rita and Diane are almost the same
“thing”.
If we may ask : Would Jean-Luc Godard be the same man that we
know today without Anna Karina ?
I don’t think so...
Please, don’t
tell me you haven’t noticed the physical similarity between Adam Kesher ( director ) and Jean - Luc Godard .
And there are not only physical similarities .
Adam Kesher has a kind of “slavish relationship” with almost every women of the
film.
What about that moment in bed , before girls
leaving to " Club Silencio " ?
Does Betty resembles to anyone? ?!!
I don’t know what you think, but to me it
feels like I’m watching Bergman’s Alma ( Persona ) into an all-color film...
However ,
Mulholland Drive remains a super -film ...
even without going “that deep” ;)…by Led Kasapi
