SNEVANJE FILMA ILI SNEVANJE IDENTITETA: SAN KAO INTERTEKSTUALNA I METATEKSTUALNA STRUKTURA U FILMU BULEVAR ZVEZDA DEJVIDA LINČA

Abstract

The paper examines the dream phenomenon in David Lynch’s movie Mulholland Drive (2001), primarily by pointing out the ways in which the oneiric context of the identity of the main character Diane Selwyn reflects oneiricity as a narrative-stylistic and poetic process in the construction of Lynch’s film. The heroine's dream of identity is symbolically mediated by the film's structure, which is why it can be explained as a discourse in which the changed signs of her real identity are revealed. At the same time, considering that Lynch loads quotes from different artistic spheres into Diane's dream-film, primarily from film art, we perceive the dream as an intertextual, but also a metatextual structure. Diane's (re)arrangement of identity as a film indicates that, through oneiric symbols, Lynch contemplates the nature of the film medium, continuously communicating with the viewers who, loading their personal associations into the film, assemble a meaningful whole from it. The constitutive value of the author's cinematic poetics is evident in the dynamics of that communicative exchange between Lynch, his film characters and the audience.