Spoilers::::: A fantasy justification of a failed life

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2002)

SPOILERS This is a movie about a wannabe actress named Diane, which is really odd since the first part of the movie has her named Betty. Diane lost her only chance at stardom and then has a lesbian affair with the actress who won the role. That actress jilts her to marry the film's director, Diane hires a hit man to kill her and ends up killing herself. This all happens however in the last forty minutes. Prior to this we see a post death review of the events in a fantasy that distorts the real world in such a way that Diane's failures are beyond her control and she is blameless. Names are changed, Diane is Betty, innocent, talented, rich, smart. She doesn't get the part because the Mob threatens the director. She isn't rejected by her lover. The detectives who are closing in on her are mobsters out to get the lover, who has lost her memory and is in danger. Everything is idealized, sinister, foreboding, a common key becomes a mysterious stylized key, her shabby bungalow becomes her rich aunt's classy one. The body in her bedroom isn't her, it's someone else. She is the good guy, the helper, the knowledgeable one. She isn't a failure, and bits of the real world have taken their parts in her fantasy.