Diane was haunted by demons, severely depressed and had a personality disorder. She was traumatized as a child which is what I think the creepy old people were all about. I think Diane was tormented by all her demons and she was trying to put everything together to make her self feel complete and live the dream she had always wanted to. She wanted to have control over her mind but she could not get rid of the other personalities or you can say demons. I do not think she was just in love with camellia as a person, but she was even more in love with the life she had.

The whole first part of the movie is not really Diane having a dream but it was just an example of what was going on in Diane's head and the dream she wanted to live. All of the crazy characters like the cowboy, the guy in the chair, The agents were all different demons of Diane's personality. They are the ones who had the control over Diane's mind. The blue box represented Dian's soul. The demon at the restaurant was the demon that had the grip on her soul. The woman in the theater was Satan and had control over everything. I don’t know if Lynch is spiritual but these are just my thoughts so bare with me.

When Diane woke up that’s when the reality of the movie started. She was in love with this actress but also extremely jealous at the same time. She wanted her life more than just being in love. All of the demons that were haunting Diane were driving her to do the unthinkable and commit murder. When Diane was in the restaurant and gave the guy money. I do think she was giving the money to have her killed. This is what the demons wanted and part of satins plan. When the guy gave her the key and told her after it was done she could open the box or what ever. That was just an example on how Diane would get her soul back after the murder was over with. Its kind of like the devil giving you something as long as you do something bad for him. At the end Diane found that she was not released but only fooled by satin and she was driven to kill her self. To put it short. The price she paid for killing someone pursuing the dream she wanted to live. I think this movie was an example on how people are driven by temptation and greed to do horrible things by evil and when they commit acts as in killing for money or killing because of jealousy. Something always goes wrong. It is always a lose, lose situation when you commit evil acts.

Just my thought and I had fun trying to figure this out and writing it.

wishes wrote:I don’t know if Lynch is spiritual

I did see an interview with David Lynch in which he said that he reads the bible a lot. So your explanation makes sense to me.

wishes wrote:Just my thought and I had fun trying to figure this out and writing it.

I've been around for years and it is amazing how few people comment on that. Much like Betty, we all enjoy playing detective of sifting through the clues and sorting out our ideas and writing about them. Certainly, joy does come from the having, but much more joy comes from the getting, at least for me.

I wonder if we wrote up what our favorite theory tells us about ourselves i.e., why does some idea in MD resonate within us? For example, untold number of people have written about the idea of Diane as an abused child. Yet, there is really precious little in the film that supports the idea. I, myself, find it compelling. Yet ... why? Not only are there no children in the film, there are no flash backs to childhood. I mean the most compelling thing is the Older Couple + the bed + suicide. Before that, what do we really have for the first 2 hours and 19 minutes?

The portrait of Beatrice Cenci who was driven to murder by her childhood abuse, and the audition scene, in which Diane sexualises her interactions with an older man. But of course you know that ctyankee.

Great idea - to look at our favourite theory and see what we're choosing to project onto Mulholland Drive. My favourite theory is the (unfashionable and relatively useless) time loop theory (the hit that brings the girls together is the result of their relationship).

What does that say about me? I dread to think! lol