The most compelling movie

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2009)

This is the most interesting movie I have ever watched and also the most complicated one which have left me under its effect for many days. Although I watched it a few times, I still have asked questions such as why,who, where...to myself and tried to make a sense of them.
During the movie the events are passing through imagination to reality and than to dreams again.So everything is confused and seems as a complex sense which is felt when you wake up from a dream on which you can not decide whether it is true or not.This is a result of an analysis of both aesthetics and psychology.The movie tells the story of human not with the shape of outer parts of the world like space,time and causality but with the figures of inner world of human such as memories,dreams and feelings.It goes into the world of Diane/Betty and gives examples of artificial,misleading lives of Hollywood.
In the film there is a beautiful,blonde girl called Betty/Diane who wants to be a movie star and she is fond of Hollywood.Her aunt dies and leaves some money for Betty.She gets the money and goes to Hollywood,to the city of dreams.There she meets Camilla/Rita who is lost and does not know who she is.Betty takes her care and tries to find about her life,at the same time they fall in love to each other.Betty takes some little parts in a few auditions but she becomes unsuccessful.Camilla performs as leading lady in movies while Betty doesn't have big roles.Than Camilla has a relationship with the director and thinks that sleeping with him will give her much more fame.She deceives Betty.After being deceived by Camilla,Betty can't accept it and give some money to a man to murder Camilla.The man says where he will put a blue key when he finishes his duty.These are the dream of Diane and the reality as well.They exist spontaneously.
While Diane has this dream the cowboy wakes her up,her door is being knocked at the same time.Her neighbor has come to take her belongings.Than Diane sees the blue key(this means Camilla died.),prepares a coffee to herself.While drinking she thinks about Camilla and their relationship,she is anxious and very sad.She can't escape from the effect of her dream.The man and women who led Betty happiness and way of Hollywood at the beginning of the film turn into monsters.Diane goes mad and commit suicide.
Most of the film is composed of Diane's dream.We watch it normally but than many events happen at the same time and each of them is in relation to the other one.Imagination and reality exist together.But Club Silencio clarifies everything;everything is recorded,this is a tape recorder.
People see the things like (people,objects) in their dreams in a different shape rather than reality.For example,a normal key can take part differently as a blue key,or the name of the girl who work at Coffeeshop may be the the name of Diane.And also in dreams everything is exaggerated,people's character's,facial expressions and physical appearance...Betty is seen as a perfect girl who is very helpful and Rita is very defenseless.
Although the movie is seen very complex,it depicts how the subconscious can be so effective and lead to bad results.It sends some messages to the world of Hollywood and shows its real face,how it is dirty and full of deceptions;and how some dreams of people can be so harsh.