On this site will be posted analyses of popular media productions. These analyses will have to do with determining the underlying meanings of various movies, songs, and certain novels. Methods used to analyze a given production will include exploration of the creators' use of symbolism, allegory, metaphor, etc., and deciphering any arcane or obscure references that it may contain.
From David Lynch's Mulholland Drive: Diane Selwyn has a dream in which we see a pool cleaner's pickup truck parked at Adam Kesher's house. The pool-man is inside the home, cheating in bed with Adam's wife. The words 'Gene Clean' painted on the side of the truck refer not only to Gene the pool man in Mulholland Drive, but also, the missing word, 'pool', is a reference to Frank Poole's last name, and ultimately to the idea of cleaning a (human) gene pool, which was effectively what the Nazi's supposedly believed they were doing by attempting to exterminate the Jews just before and during World War II.
Lynch is here giving us a clue about Frank Poole's last name being a reference to the general populace (i.e., 'gene pool'). The clue is also a reference to the situation with the Nazis and Jews, as indicated above, and Lynch believes Kubrick was making some sort of statement on this subject (i.e., the subject of the Jews and Nazis) in A Space Odyssey.
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Saint Augustine's Confessions andCity of God from Wikisource (except where otherwise noted); portions from Wikisource used on this blog are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Saint Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica from the 'Logos Virtual Library' website (except where otherwise noted), compiled and edited by Darren L. Slider; believed to be in public domain.
