What's your interpretation of this film?

Well now, here's a man who wants to get right down to it.
Kinda anxious to get to it, are ya?
A man's attitude -- a man's attitude goes some ways to the way his life will be.
Is that something you might agree with?

Now did you answer because that's what you thought I wanted to hear, or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right?

What'd I say?

So since you agree, you must be a person who does not care about the good life.
Well stop for a little second and think about it. Can you do that for me?

There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy have?

So, let's just say I'm driving this buggy. And, if you fix your attitude, you can ride along with me.

When you see the girl in the picture that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl". The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But the choice for that lead girl is NOT up to you. Now... you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me... two more times, if you do bad. Good night.

I prefer to think of the film in terms of Tibetan philosophy, Bardo Thodol, as a good way of understanding the film.

To each his/her own of course.

First 2/3 are a dream, after that we see what occurred before and after the dream.

Brief chronology of what happens…

Diane moves to Hollywood and struggles to make it as an actress, and has a lesbian relationship with a sadistic raven-haired starlet called Camilla.

Camilla gets engaged to her director Adam, and gets off on rubbing Diane’s nose in it, making her murderously jealous.

Diane orders a hit-man to kill Camilla, then goes to bed and has a dream.

The dream is a wish-fulfilment fantasy in which everything plays out as she’d wished, climaxing in the lesbo sex scene. After that things fall apart as reality intrudes on the fantasy, ending with The Cowboy telling her ‘time to wake up’.

Diane wakes up, argues with her ex roommate/lover, and sits alone on her couch realising that she’s now a murderer. The guilt and shame, compounded by the spectre of her grandparents, drives her to mental breakdown. She pulls out a gun and blows her head off.


Let me know if you have any more questions.

No philosophy. Unless you consider Mind Control a philosophy.

We are inside the head of one woman. We only know for sure that she acted as a prostitute. But she is heavily involved with the Movie Business and Organized crime and the Cowboy Yippee- I -oh - AY

Betty and Rita are alter personalities inside this woman's head. Every time she sees and hears the Cowboy trigger (Hey Pretty Girl, Time to Wake Up), she enters the "dream" where she is Betty trying to break into the movie business, has a bad love affair and then notifies organized crime assassins of a hit on her "love". THIS is the Girl.

The hit plays out. The alter program ends and goes into hibernation. Until the Cowboy comes calling again.

Actually of all Lynch films this one is the most traditional snd straight forward plot wise. A young actress comes to Hollywood to start her career, gets cast, falls in love with female lead actress. But she begins affair with director, mocks our protagonist, who is desperate. Lives lonely and run down in her apartment. She hires a hitman to get her girlfriend shot. He reports her, that he succeeded. Devastated she lies down in her bed, sleeps, wakes up, kills herself.
The movie has three parts. Part one, her dream in which she reanacts the whole story on a idealized version. Part two, a flashback of the real events. Part three, her waking up and shooting herself.

Lesbian has a hard time in Hollywood because she's a lesbian. It's literally that simple and basically everything else is just symbolism.



Yes. It's a woke flick.