Snyder's Mulholand Drive about traumas and fighting them. Analysis.

Rating: 8/10 (25 June 2011)

This isn't Mulholand Drive (the masterpiece), but I think it follows the same principals. As in Mulholand what you see on screen it's not the reality, it's just subconscious fantasy.
The action in the whore house and the action part is a subconscious alternate reality. The disgusting reality is in the asylum.
The impressive dance is certainly not a sexy dance that none can resist. All dances are in reality the patients re-acting of their traumatic experiences. Baby dolls' dance is amazing to all because her story is simply amazing, as we've seen in the superb first 7 minutes (I must have already watched the emotional galore of "sweet dreams" like 10 times).
The cgi/action scenes is actually Baby Doll fighting her demons, sometimes the step father appears with the veeery long spear, with a little help from her new made friends (now she has help, she's not scared, she will fight and win). Sometimes I could make sense of a few details, most of them I didn't get them...(anyone did please let me know??)
In reality their plan inside the asylum of getting the map etc is very naive. They stole the map from the office, and didn't photocopy it, so obviously the "dr" got the plot since there was no map behind his desk, same thing with the missing lighter--how can he not notice it missing.
By the way i think that the psycho doctor's speeches were accurate in both levels. What he says works for both worlds and is actually baby dolls "plot points" for both worlds.
The map, the key, the knife and the lighter are just her last memories before the lobotomy. Her subconscious took them, put them together and there you have your story.
To conclude, this kind of movie for a commercial creator is a big surprise. No wonder that his action packed fan base was frustrated and disappointed. They should have been warned that this is another universe from his previous films. Here, the action scenes are metaphoric and they don't drive the plot!
Personally, I loved many parts of the film, especially the haunting sweet dreams and the white rabbit. Especially the first one is one of my most haunting film scenes ever. It almost convinced me to fight my demons as baby doll did!
I won't give a 10, only because Snyder didn't succeed on helping us understand her subconscious--her real fight. There could have been many ways of hinting us more things here and there or at least at the last part of the movie spend it in the asylum...Many ways for helping the audience getting it and be in awe.
Its visuals and the directing/editing emotional value reach a superb level, it only needed a little more to become a masterpiece. Honestly.