Re: what fantasy or sci-fi wrters do you have trouble connecting with?
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Sawfish (IP Logged)
Date: 7 May, 2021 09:00AM
Knygatin Wrote:
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> Sawfish Wrote:
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> > K, you have used the term "parallel universe",
> > etc., and it connotes an actual physical
> parallel
> > universe in the manner of sci-fi convention.
> >
> > Is this what you actually mean--SF-like
> parallel
> > universe? I am using a term more like "altered
> > psychological state", technically, a "fugue
> > state", experienced by the blonde failed
> actress.
> >
> > If the former (SF parallel universe) you are of
> > course free to choose this interpretation--art
> is,
> > after all, interpreted by the consumer of art.
> > That's valid.
> >
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> I don't like to use the term SF here, since that
> implies the movie concerns time- or
> dimension-travel based on human science. The blue
> box, though, may possibly be interpreted as a
> science fiction gadget. But I don't put much
> weight on that particular detail. From the story's
> perspective the box is more of a fantasy element,
> a magic box, or merely a symbolic narrative tool.
Agreed.
I think the blue box/key symbolizes:
"And everything changes starting now, and there's no going back...".
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>
> I like to interpret the movie from a spiritual
> perspective. Concerning reincarnation, or rather,
> spiritual drifting between parallel existences.
> And that may be closely related to "altered
> psychological state". Or extension of it. It
> depends on where one comes from
> philosophically/religiously, whether one is a
> mechanistic materialist or believes there is also
> a spiritual element to existence. I believe there
> is a spiritual element to existence/reality.
> (Perhaps in the future science and the spiritual
> will meet in a mutual explanation.)
>
> I bet books have been written about this movie. I
> have not looked into that, nor have I seen other
> discussions about this movie.
Tons and tons written about this film, K. I succumbed to the temptation to see other interpretations and was staggered.
>
> I hope David Lynch, if he reads here, in my
> Mulholland twilight zone, will comment this.
> Although I am not sure that would make us any
> wiser.
Hah!
Again, if I had a wish, I wish he'd do the Manson/Tate murders.
The most significant attribute about the incident, if told as a narrative, is the setting at 10050 Ceilo Drive. That forum of kooks who make a hobby of the murder has all kinds of photos of the house/lot, and it's easy to study Google maps and old property records back to the first owner.
Now, no ghost stuff here. The actual impact is that the house was within shouting distance of Sunset Blvd, yet isolated on a hillside on such a way that it was cut off from any easy view or ability to monitor it.
This is just as mind-bending as the midnight corral in Mulholland Drive. How can there be such a thing as an isolated corral and the Capitol Records Building within a mile of each other, or less?
I do residential real estate as a sideline, and have for years. I like individual pieces of real estate in the same way that some posters here like certain editions of books. So looking at photos taken from the old (was torn down in 1998 and re-developed into what can only be described "Sodomite Palace"), the candid photos from the front of the house gave a sense of floating over the Sunset/Santa Monica corridor above Beverly Hills.
It was like a piece of personal paradise in the sky, isolated, private. The house was not sumptuous by any means--it was a simple ranch-style, maybe 2500 sq ft., but done by an architect so it was at least not a cookie-cutter. It was on a 3.5 acre hillside lot at the end of what had probably been its private 200 yard driveway when developed, but became an arm of the actual Ceilo Drive. In the middle of the sloping lot was a sort of notch or flat spot cut right into the middle of the slope, all by itself, facing out midway between the summit (probably nothing up above the when built) and the valley floor at Sunset.
Really unique real estate.
--Sawfish
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