#A road to nowhere movie
Is he calling, then, into the inner movie or into the movie about it?įurther complicating matters is the existence of Bruno Brotherton ( Waylon Payne), a detective whom Mitch hires. It is unclear to me, however, which movie Rafe is in - or if he's in both. Rafe is also much seen in the movie, sometimes calling in from Rome. Velma and her partner in crime, Rafe ( Cliff De Young), died in the crash of a small plane into a lake, we are told. The film doesn't consider the question of who, therefore, is buried in the grave.
The possibility is left hanging that Velma faked her death and changed her name to Laurel, which would go a long way toward explaining Laurel's reluctance to accept the movie role. But everyone notes that Laurel looks exactly like Velma. We gather that because Laurel visits her grave. On her blog, a "real" crime was described, and Laurel apparently greatly resembles Velma Duran, one of the perps, who is now dead. This fraud was blogged about by Nathalie ( Dominique Swain), who we learn is the person watching the DVD seen at the beginning. We see Laurel acting in apparently fictional scenes involving a fraud case. These often take the form of wise teacher and attentive student. He spends a great deal of time in earnest discussions with her that men use to impress their importance upon women. She doesn't think of herself as an actress. We see Haven working with an actress named Laurel Graham ( Shannyn Sossamon), who he has discovered and persuaded to play her role. So is the outer film about the making of the inner one, or are the two films simply not synched in time and space? And for that matter is there a third level, a "reality," that neither film completely reflects? Velma and her partner in crime, Rafe ( Cliff De Young ), died in the crash of a small plane into a lake, we are told. The "inner" film is being made by a director named Mitchell Haven ( Tygh Runyan), who has the same initials as Monte Hellman. The DVD is titled "Road to Nowhere." So therefore this film exists outside another film of the same name. The film opens with a shot of a DVD being loaded.
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