by Erskine » 27 Feb 2012
It would point to them being one and the same. Rita, yet to be named Rita hides where we assume "Aunt Ruth" lives. After Club Silencio it is Rita who is last seen before we see "Aunt Ruth" again. Red wigs are seen in the 1612 Havenhurst Apartment. What is the red headed womans real hair color? How did Adam ever meet Rita or Betty, or Camilla and Diane? Tout Paris. I know it doesn't say Two Pairs but it works just fine for David Lynch. In the pilot Adam apparently was to stay with Wilkins or move in close to Betty and or Rita. Bob Brooker was the director of the Sylvia North Story, which was to star Betty Elms, but instead starred Camilla Rhodes. This would be during the appropriate period, for both the setting of the film, as well as the period for both Betty's and Camilla's appearance and much of Havenhurst.
It would look like the scenario plays out twice. Or essentially just once, but the story weaves giving the impression of dual narratives. But they are just portions of the same story colored differently by time periods, settings, characters and familiar allusions.
The look Adam Kesher gives Betty Elms while he is in his directors chair is one of love and anixety, tinged with grief. Here is someone seeing someone they don't know they have already loved and lost. More so because she doesnt belong there, this is Dianes time period Adam Kesher the director is in. Another clue to this dichotomy is two photos of two Camilla Rhodes among others.
I find what David Lynch doesn't say in the clues more interesting than what he does say. There is no mention of a conspiracy to murder, that fact alone doesn't mean much but along side other perhaps it points to a subtle hint about the true nature of the events. Camilla Rhode's talent wasn't enough. A terrible accident was.
I have an explanation for "Aunt Ruth" also and will write about this some more.
side note;
While watching the other evening I noticed that when Louise Bonner is approaching the door both Betty and Rita look scared, the door was closed, noone even knocked and they looked up at the door, they sensed a presence coming to the door, frightened. Because they are ghosts perhaps, or, maybe it's Diane that opens the door, with Camilla inside. Louise Bonner is saying essentially that this person standing before her we know as Betty is not Betty, then who? Ghostly echoes embodied in the living? Diane and Camilla, but Camilla is in trouble, she knows it, Louise does. Diane channeling Psycho?