Film Noir
Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1953) and Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001) are films where there is a paranoiac hero or heroine in a nightmare landscape. The elements of film noir combined with this paranoiac hero/heroine create, these two films, into masterpieces. Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train contains the paranoiac hero named Bruno Antony. At the very start of the film, he makes an extraordinary deal with Guy Haines to switch murders. Guy will kill his father and Bruno will kill Guy's wife. Guy, the professional tennis player, briefly jokes about the offer, but Bruno believes they agreed on the plan. In the New York Time's review stated "...he doesn't even wait for the tennis star to agree to the scheme..." The murder took place in an amusement park, which has a symbolic connection to a child's mind that is part of Bruno's mind. The wife, Miriam, was pregnant which heightens the irony of the situation, since Bruno is also killing a child while doing this murder and Bruno himself is "child minded". When the drunk on the train could not help Guy in his situation, since everyone now thinks Guy killed his wife because he has a motive
Robert Walker performance made Bruno seem life-like which added to the intensity of the movie also referred by Kael. Hitchcock gives off the idea of "sexual repression is the cause of the violent crimes. " The most noticeable connection between the two films is the sexual ideals. The wishful thinking or Betty, the confused Rita, the random people, the rage and jealously of Adams, and random places as well, are all the desires of Diana. Lynch separates the paranoiac mind into different characters and each playing a role of part of the paranoiac mind. Mulholland Drive has no regard for keeping its wheels on the pavement. " However the homosexuality in Lynch's film releases this repression. Fionn Meade says the movie uses film noir and puts it into "a love story in the city of dreams. The tennis match and the scene of Bruno getting back the lighter fallen in the sewer, causes the audience to be on their feet, because of the fast cuts going back and forth in the scenes. " The different plots all exploit the flaws of Hollywood and the corrupt it holds.
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