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think I figured it out
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Jun 12, 2008
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This still does not account for everything--but I just watched this movie, and here is my take:
I believe the "real" part of the movie was in the scenes with Betty and Rita as lovers, with Betty as the one more in love. This includes parts such as the couch scene (Rita saying it's over--notice that happened in Betty's real Apt, the one we see her living in at the end) the scenes of them on the movie set together, with Betty in costume (and Rita in car), also the scene at the party in which Rita is shown to be a calculating, vicious person playing w/peoples emotions.
Ok: That all happened. Then Betty was driven to killing Rita. Who knows how much time had passed, but Betty slowly went crazy over the end of the relationship and then the murder. She was holed up in the Apt. (who knows how long--long enough to drive her roomie away w/her disturbing behavior?)
During that time, she lived on fantasy. She created an entire fantasy in which she was the strong person and Rita was in the ultimate position of dependence. She held the power, Rita loved HER, she was "re-born" innocent, promising acting career, etc. (this also goes back to her confession at the dinner--Rita was the up and coming star, she was not making it) the part about her Aunt leaving her $ was real, that was how she was able to afford a hit man, as well as just "hang" in her Apt. without having to work. (maybe also which bleeds into her fantasy with the blue key/money) because in RL it was her money which provided the hit/blue key. (which stood for nothing more than the way for the hit man to get his point across that the job was done(which is why he laughed at her reaction)
The end was simply that she couldn't sustain the fantasy any longer (i.e. the frustrated masturbation scene) it wasn't working--she'd taken it to lengths and twisted and turned it and kept it alive--but as we come in on the "real" story, she is being pulled out of sleep, tired, haggard--even the second she "sees" Rita in the kitchen and smiles and say's "you're back" Rita fades..reality is coming back.
Lastly (long winded--whew!) the two old people that came back (at first as tiny little "fragments" working their way under her door (reality) were the two poeple that BEGAN her fantasy, they "arrived" with her in LA. So.. they were the ones, laughing and taunting and "chasing" her into the bedroom screaming which signified the end. All of the reality came charging at her and she killed herself.
finally--even if I'm full of it--Naomi Watts is brilliant |
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