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Did I dream it all?

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At this point I’m starting to wonder if I just dreamed it all…

A number of years ago I was watching a watchmojo list and what I saw I liked so much I stopped watching so I wouldn’t spoil myself any further. But since then, what I saw is such a hazy memory in my mind, I can’t work out whether it is real or not! At first I thought it may have been Taxi Driver (only because of the taxi association) but I saw it recently and it’s clearly not.

Would anyone know if this is actually from a film?

This is what I remember:
A man sits in the driver’s seat of a taxi in the driveway of a hotel late at night.

Driveway
^ Similar to this, undercover, but much bigger (the drive is almost three lanes wide).

He’s not sitting right at the front of the hotel so the lighting is dim. He has a passenger in the back, a woman (possibly quite young) who he has been transporting for quite a while. She has a gun to the back of his head, and wants him to continue driving or not to stop here – either way she isn’t happy. The driver has had enough; he doesn’t want to have any more part in doing whatever he has been forced or convinced to do. After a tense conversation, the woman may or may not kill the man (I think this is tragic as he has been essentially helping her for the entire film) and leave him dead in his car, as she gets out and walks off (possibly into the hotel)…

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Trapped inside my self-capsule
For a journey into an atmosphere
A darkened space I’m floating in
Although I am not here

I’m caught, a room, it’s colored black
The trap I haven’t chosen
I cannot think, my limbs
I cannot move, seems like they’re frozen

Peaceful existence in a world
Above earthly life
I’ve been there in this paradise
Where all is calm and nice

Walking in the other side
I can’t tell the difference
Between day and night
Voices I can hear

Hidden somewhere, but they’re near
Out there in this universe
Imaginary world of fantasy
Am I dreaming?
But It seems so real to me

Humanity denies death
Search for immortality
Melancholy desire
Can’t become reality

No reason to fear death
We all will meet it anyway
A promised life in hereafter
As we will pass away

Hopefully this can help you SkyderHouseMafia

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It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?

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Bingowings said:

It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?

I’ve only seen Mulholland Drive but it’s the opposite of a good movie.

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TV’s Frink said:

Bingowings said:

It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?

I’ve only seen Mulholland Drive but it’s the opposite of a good movie.

Greatness can sometimes be the opposite of good. We don’t remember Herod as Good or Alexander.

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No I definitely remember Herrod as being Alexander.

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Bingowings said:

It sounds a bit like “Until the End of the World” (1991) but all jumbled up.
It also feels a bit like “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
After Hours (1985) has a similar vibe
None of these are total fit but they are all good movies so what have you got to lose?

Ok, thanks for the recommendations 😃
I’ve had Mulholland Drive on my to watch list for quite a while so I’ll have to check that one out soon! Is there some context I should know to make the film easier to understand or should I just experience it raw?

Oh and thanks Lord Hasbro for the existential trip 😛

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SkyderHouseMafia said:

Is there some context I should know to make the film easier to understand or should I just experience it raw?

Why would you want to understand a Lynch film? That’s like wanting to understand a Dali painting or an Escher print; it takes the funny right out of the experience.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

SkyderHouseMafia said:

Is there some context I should know to make the film easier to understand or should I just experience it raw?

Why would you want to understand a Lynch film? That’s like wanting to understand a Dali painting or an Escher print; it takes the funny right out of the experience.

Hmmm, I generally don’t enjoy films I don’t understand or have any solid grasp on. The exception is if the technical elements are aesthetically pleasing enough on their own - then I can still enjoy myself. I guess I have a desire to be able to comprehend most things. If I am unable to understand why something is happening or what something means I feel like I am unable to care. That’s not to say I need everything be easy to understand or that everything needs to make perfect sense, I’m talking about when I have no idea whatsoever is happening.

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The Straight Story and Elephant Man aren’t even that strange. They are pure Lynch though.