November 26, 2006

Mulholland Drive theory...

Okay, so I'm watching Mulholland Drive right now (i'm at the audition scene, yowza) because all that analysing made me wanna watch it again. But, I've just cottoned on to something.

I think Camilla was pregnant


As Coco says: "If there's trouble get rid of it" (hello, abortion!). And that would be even more explaination as to why she was so sudden to dump Diane and go with the director Adam. It would also be another explaination as to why Diane so violently attacks Camilla's genitals. And that could have been the tipping point for Diane. Knowing Camilla was pregnant with Adam's child meant there was no chance of them ever getting back together and so she then decided to hire someone to kill her.

Or

Just as likely:

Diane was the one who was pregnant


But not by anyone in the movie. No, but due to a rape or sexual abuse by someone in her family (a theory that is very popular within Mulholland theorists) or somebody she was with when she worked as a prostitute (another popular theory, and one that I think is very likely). Again, the line "If there's trouble get rid of it" sticks in my mind. And maybe it was people who she knew who told her to "get rid of it". Coco is almost like a mother-figure to Diane so she could represent Diane's mother (back in "Deep River Ontario") or she could represent a sort of pimp like figure.

God, watching this movie just fills your head with ideas.

Ideas like: Where would it have gone as a tv series? This one always plagues me. I mean, it's obvious that the detective nature of the film would've been to the forefront (with Robert Forster's character being much more. Having seen the pilot episode, he was indeed already supposed to feature more.) Would Betty and Adam fall in love as "Sixteen Reasons" scene would have indicated. Rita would have been the Laura Palmer/Fire Walk With Me character. Her character probably would have descended into some weird spiral dragging Betty down with her until... something?

Oh god, i dunno. I need to go back to the movie now. Silencio is up, people. SILENCIO!!!!

2 comments:

walypala said...

It's a David Lynch film, for Christ's sake; he doesn't even know what they mean.

Theorising is pointless. Just let the whole experience wash over you then laugh your arse off listening to everyone else explaining how they understood the film perfectly.

That is the true joy of Lynch.

adam k. said...

I kind of agree with Mike Scott.

But I also think it's pretty cool to think that somebody might be pregnant. Never thought of that. It explains a lot, actually.