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The Dream Logic of “Inside Llewyn Davis”

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Is Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Inside Llewyn Davis” the representation of a nightmare, as were David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive”?

Toward the end of the Coens’ depiction of the self-inflicted travails of the working-class Queens folk singer Llewyn (Oscar Isaac), he wakes for what seems to be the second time in the Upper West Side apartment of his Columbia academic friends the Gorfeins, who have treated him more kindly than he deserves. As it did before, the couple’s cat stares at him as he comes to. On leaving, he shuts the door on it, whereas “earlier” he allowed it to escape, his quick retrieval of it forcing him into the only companionship he knows in the film. Read the full article here


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