Stroke my understanding of the plot of Yaoye's panic

Hubert 2022-03-22 09:01:36

David Lynch's film is divided into two parts, the first part is reality, the second part is dream, the two are divided by Fred taking sleeping pills in prison. There is not a single redundant shot in this film, and most of the shots have hints and correspondences. These correspondences are too complicated, so only the main plot is analyzed here.

First, Fred developed schizophrenic tendencies from an early age, but was repressed. As an adult, Fred married his wife Renee, and they seemed to love each other, but they were always separated by a thin film. Fred's job was to play in the band at night, and he called his wife at work, but no one answered. If the wife is at home, she is bound to hear the phone because there are many telephones in the house. Fred came home to find his wife fast asleep. Fred therefore believes that his wife Renee cheated on her, and Renee always cheated on him while he was working. The dark side of Fred's personality was stimulated by his wife's derailment, and he emerged, manipulated Fred's body, shot a lot of peeping videos with his camera, and pretended to be a strange pervert who was peeping at his house, and sent it to Renee, let Renee felt like she and Fred were being monitored by a pervert. Renee used to be an actress in porn, so she looked horrified when she saw the videotape. This deepens Fred's unease and doubts about his wife. At a party, Fred met Renee's old friend Andy, and secretly knew that Renee was a former pornographic actor, and Andy was the one who introduced Renee to make pornographic films. And the object of Renee's cheating is the pornographic actor Dick. (Perhaps the boss related to the porn business? In short, such a role.)

At the party, Fred met a mysterious man who claimed to have "seen himself". This mysterious man was actually Fred's dark side personality. When the mysterious man said he was at Fred's house, he was in fact implying that the video was made by Fred himself.

Conversations with police also suggest that the tape was made by Fred himself. Fred felt extremely angry and disturbed when he learned that his wife was a former pornographic actor and cheated on Dick. He killed his wife, dismembered her, and videotaped her. The police caught him and sentenced him to death by electric chair.

Fred never realized he was schizophrenic. For him, the dark side personality is a mysterious person who looks like a demon. Fred was in the dark side when he killed his wife, so he didn't feel like he killed his wife. Fred was on the verge of collapse, he had a splitting headache, and the doctors in the prison gave him some sleeping pills, and he fell into a coma. Dream: In reality, Fred has been sentenced to death, he doesn't want to die, so in the dream, he incarnates another young Pete, innocently imprisoned. The police were surprised to find that they had caught the wrong person and released Pete. This corresponds to Fred's subconscious escape from the death penalty. Pete in the dream is a car mechanic with very good ears, which corresponds to Fred in reality who has been playing in a noisy band for a long time and has poor ears. Pete's sexual ability in the dream is very strong, which corresponds to Fred's poor sexual ability in reality, and may not be able to stand up. In the dream, Pete and his girlfriend Sheila were very happy. But suddenly there appeared the laughing tiger gang boss Dick, and his concubine Alice. Except for the hair color, Alice and Sheila are identical in length, indicating that Alice and Sheila are the same person, and their prototypes are the real wife Renee. Fred loves his wife, but hates her lustful, vicious, selfish, ruthless side, so in the dream, he splits his wife into two people, one is his girlfriend Sheila, representing the innocent and innocent side, and the other is the gang boss concubine Alice , which represents infidelity, betrayal, and selfishness. In the dream, Alice hooked up with Pete, but was noticed by mob boss Dick. They were afraid of being killed by the boss, so they decided to run away together. Girlfriend Sheila discovered Pete's derailment, so she broke up with Pete, which means that the innocent and kind side of his wife in reality has disappeared. In the dream, Alice told Pete that she used to make porn, and suggested to rob one of the concubine Andy's money, and then ran away. Pete felt great pain, he thought that Alice concealed his past and betrayed him, but Pete still agreed to Alice's plan. The two went to rob Andy and killed Andy by mistake. This plot corresponds to Fred's hatred for Andy in reality, because Andy introduced his wife to make an pornographic film, and let his wife know the cheating object Dick. At the end of the dream, Alice completely showed her crazy demon side. The scene of Alice's affair with Dick in the past is as if a cult is holding a grand sacrifice. Alice is right Pete said: You will never get me. It has been shown here that the dream is close to collapse. Fred made this dream to escape, but subconsciously, he knew he couldn't escape. As a death row inmate, he wakes up in the electric chair. He also couldn't get the love of his wife. At the shattered borders of the dream, Fred sheds his pretense and is no longer a young Pete. I think the ending story can correspond to two different points of view. The first is that Fred used the power of the dark side personality in his dream to kill the mob boss Dick himself. Corresponding to Dick, the cheating object he didn't kill his wife in reality, but he really wanted revenge on Dick, so in the dream, Fred killed Dick. The dark side personality says there is no Alice here, only Renee. It is implied that in order to escape the pain of being betrayed by his wife, Fred fabricated the image of the evil woman Alice. Alice disappeared without a trace after entering a cabin, implying that in reality, her wife had been dismembered by herself. Fred is chased by the police in his dream, driving down the highway, chasing a large group of cars behind him. When Fred passed the door, he rang the doorbell and told himself: Dick was dead. This corresponds to the beginning, and the real Fred heard the mysterious man tell him that Dick was dead. This shows that Fred's hidden desire is to kill Dick, and he even had a daytime hallucination and heard that Dick was dead. But at Andy's dance, Andy told him that Dick couldn't have died. Therefore, Fred was uneasy. When he dreamed, he dreamed that he killed Dick, and told himself at the end to reassure himself. The second, which I disagree more with, is that Fred did not kill his wife. The person he actually killed was Dick. At the end, when he changes from Pete back to Fred, it means that the dream has woken up and is now reality. He actually killed Dick and was sentenced to death for it. Also, Pete is, in a way, a young Fred. And Dick is not that fierce in reality, nor is he the boss of the gang. Fred hated and feared him (because he made Renee betray Fred), so in the dream, Dick became a fierce gang boss, which just corresponds to Fred's jealousy and fear of Dick. Alice said at the end "You can never get me", and the dark side personality said "In the far east, no one can escape the death penalty", in fact, Fred's subconscious is at work. Although Fred had an escapist dream, he was deeply disturbed because he knew, He could not escape his death, and his wife had already been dismembered by his own hands, and everything was irreversible. Pete's role with his parents corresponds to Fred's guilt towards his parents. The parents said "we met you and Sheila and a man we've never met," and the man here, I think, was referring to Fred's dark side personality. When Fred was young, his parents were extremely disturbed by seeing the dark side personality and Fred go hand in hand. Fred's Hidden Desires: Revenge on Dick; reconciliation with his wife. Therefore, these two contents become the main contents of the dream. He cuckolded Dick and killed Dick. He divides his wife into Sheila and Alice, which corresponds to his contradictory attitude towards his wife in reality - both love and hate. In the dream, he fell in love with Alice and fled together, his wish was fulfilled, but the unease in his heart made the dream run towards boundless despair. Alice tells him "you'll never get me", which is actually Fred's own opinion of his wife. Fred knew that his wife didn't love him anymore, so he killed her. Impression: The future "Mulholland Drive" is actually not much different from "Monster Night Panic", and the framework and ideas are similar. David Lynch always emphasizes "perception" rather than "reason", and these films are his best interpretation of this point of view. A true meditation lover.

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Extended Reading
  • Gillian 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    The real time of the story ends before the transformation in prison. At the end of the film, the car is superimposed on the real scene of being electrocuted. Therefore, the perspectives of the two protagonists of the story are the near-death hallucinations of mixed memories, which have the mechanism of dreams.

  • Jacinthe 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    The whole film is full of bizarre atmosphere, half-true dreams and reality are intertwined, and the sound effects are great. The subsequent "Mulholland Drive" is like a further expansion of this film~

Lost Highway quotes

  • [in Pete's vision of Alice]

    Alice Wakefield: Did you want to talk to me? Did you want to ask me "WHY"?

  • Arnie: Pete! Where've you been? It's really good you're back! A lot of people are gonna be happy that you're back, including me!

    Pete Dayton: Well, it's good to be back, Arnie.

    Arnie: Mr. Smith is waiting for you.

    Pete Dayton: Sure, I'll take care of him.

    Arnie: And Mr. Eddy called every day asking about you. Can I call him and tell him to come in?

    Pete Dayton: Sure, call him. Tell him to come in and I'm ready to work.

    Arnie: You're ready to work?

    Pete Dayton: I'm ready to work.

    Arnie: [to the other garage employees] Pete is back!