Not a nice-dream-based puzzle! Heavens, no! A nice dream in a David Lynch movie? To heck with that. His work always contains all sorts of bizarre symbolism that seems to mean something and might not mean anything, or might simply be a representation of how screwed up and incomprehensible the human psyche is. Not everyone is there as a reincorporation of someone she knows. (though Dad had an explanation for the Man Behind Winkies though I admit I've forgotten it, it was over three years ago that we last talked about the movie {gaaah, where'd the time go?!?}).
Also, not dream, but a half-deliberate daydream; she's trying to tell herself a story of how things Should Have Been, trying to convince herself that's how it all should have happened; it fails partly because it isn't true and the pieces cannot be made to fit, and partly because of her own self-destructive tendencies.
My belief was that the cowboy is part of her explanation for why she didn't get the part--obviously she was would have been the director's first choice, in a classic eyes-meeting-across-the-room scene, except that the director was being forced by an inexplicable conspiracy to pick another girl. Also the cowboy is Just One Of Those David Lynch Things, because David Lynch is a weird, weird, weird person. If you want a theory into which all pieces will fit nicely, David Lynch is not for you, because he will always have jagged edges (usually of nightmare) that cannot be made to fit anywhere.
That said, watch Twin Peaks anyway. It's fascinating.
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Date: 2007-02-23 07:53 pm (UTC)Also, not dream, but a half-deliberate daydream; she's trying to tell herself a story of how things Should Have Been, trying to convince herself that's how it all should have happened; it fails partly because it isn't true and the pieces cannot be made to fit, and partly because of her own self-destructive tendencies.
My belief was that the cowboy is part of her explanation for why she didn't get the part--obviously she was would have been the director's first choice, in a classic eyes-meeting-across-the-room scene, except that the director was being forced by an inexplicable conspiracy to pick another girl. Also the cowboy is Just One Of Those David Lynch Things, because David Lynch is a weird, weird, weird person. If you want a theory into which all pieces will fit nicely, David Lynch is not for you, because he will always have jagged edges (usually of nightmare) that cannot be made to fit anywhere.
That said, watch Twin Peaks anyway. It's fascinating.