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Under the Silver Lake Dvd

Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.

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Under the Silver Lake is a 2018 American neo-noir black comedy conspiracy thriller film written, produced and directed by David Robert Mitchell. Set in Los Angeles in 2011, it follows a young man (Andrew Garfield) who sets out on a quest to investigate the sudden disappearance of his neighbour (Riley Keough), only to stumble upon an elusive and dangerous large-scale conspiracy.

The film had its world premiere on May 15, 2018, at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d’Or, before being released nationwide in France on August 8. It was released in the United States on April 19, 2019, by A24. Under the Silver Lake polarized critics; although its originality, direction, soundtrack, cinematography, and Garfield’s performance were praised, some found the script confusing, too cryptic, and lacking the substance and depth the film was aiming for.

Plot

Sam is an aimless 33-year-old in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, interested in conspiracy theories and hidden messages in popular culture and uninterested in paying his overdue rent. The public is warned to “Beware the Dog Killer” who is murdering pets. Sam meets his new neighbor, Sarah, who despite having caught him spying on her, invites him over. The two get high and watch How to Marry a Millionaire, but when her roommates interrupt as they begin to kiss, Sarah suggests Sam leave and they hang out the next day.

In the morning, Sam discovers Sarah and her roommates have moved out overnight, and becomes obsessed with learning what happened. Noticing a strange symbol painted on the apartment’s wall, Sam trails a woman from the apartment to a series of elite Hollywood parties, encountering the pop band “Jesus and the Brides of Dracula” and a performance artist working for a prostitution ring of struggling actresses. All seem connected, but Sam struggles to find any meaningful pattern.

At his apartment, Sam sees a news report detailing the discovery of billionaire Jefferson Sevence, burned to death in a car with three women. Sam recognizes Sarah’s hat at the scene, and a small dog similar to Sarah’s found dead.

Sam contacts the author of Under the Silver Lake, an underground comic about neighborhood urban legends. He tells Sam that Sarah’s disappearance, the Dog Killer, the Owl’s Kiss – a naked woman in an owl mask who seduces and kills people in their sleep – and messages in pop culture are part of the same conspiracy and has installed security cameras throughout his house. Later, the police find the author dead in an apparent suicide. Sam enters the house and reviews the security footage, discovering the author was killed by a woman dressed as the Owl’s Kiss.

Following clues hidden in Jesus and the Brides of Dracula songs, Sam meets the “Homeless King”, who brings him to a bunker underneath Griffith Park leading into a supermarket. With the help of the performance artist and her friends, Sam meets “the Songwriter”, a fabulously wealthy old man who claims to have written most of history’s popular songs. When the Songwriter tries to shoot him, Sam bludgeons him to death with a guitar that purportedly belonged to Sam’s musical idol, Kurt Cobain.

At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Sam meets Jefferson Sevence’s daughter Millicent, also running into his now-famous ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. Millicent convinces Sam to go swimming in the Silver Lake Reservoir. She gives him a bracelet – identical to Sarah’s – that belonged to her father, and is shot dead by unseen assailants and sinks to the bottom of the lake, mirroring a pose from Sam’s favorite issue of Playboy.

Sam manages to escape, and combines the bracelet, the author’s cereal box prize, and a Legend of Zelda map from the first issue of Nintendo Power to reveal a location absent from web mapping where he finds a man and three women in a small hut. As Sam holds them at gunpoint, the man reveals the truth: throughout history, wealthy men such as himself choose to lock themselves in underground bunkers similar to the one Sam discovered, much like Egyptian Pharaohs, in order for their souls to “ascend” accompanied by three wives. Sarah and her roommates were Sevence’s wives, and their deaths were faked. Their bunker has been sealed, but they can still be contacted via videotelephony. Sam speaks with Sarah, who confirms that she entered the bunker willingly. At peace with her fate, she and Sam share an emotional farewell.

Sam begins to pass out as the Homeless King arrives to capture him, angered by finding dog biscuits in his pocket. When Sam tells him that he did not actually have a dog and kept biscuits only as memory of his painful breakup and knowledge that he would never see his girlfriend’s dog again, the Homeless King lets him go. Returning home, Sam spends the night with a neighbor whose parrot repeats incomprehensible words. From the balcony, Sam watches as his landlord and a police officer enter his apartment to evict him. They notice one of his walls has been painted with the strange symbol seen earlier, which Sam now knows to be a message from the conspiracy to “stay quiet”.

Cast

Andrew Garfield as Sam
Riley Keough as Sarah, Sam’s new neighbour who mysteriously disappears
Topher Grace as Bar Buddy, Sam’s unnamed friend who helps him with an investigation surrounding the disappearance of Sarah
Callie Hernandez as Millicent Sevence
Don McManus as Final Man
Jeremy Bobb as Songwriter
Riki Lindhome as Actress
Zosia Mamet as Troy
Patrick Fischler as Comic Fan, creator of Under the Silver Lake zine who is obsessed with conspiracy theories
Jimmi Simpson as Allen
Grace Van Patten as Balloon Girl
India Menuez as Shooting Star 1
Wendy Vanden Heuvel as Topless Bird Woman
Chris Gann as Jefferson Sevence
Jessica Makinson as Mrs. Sevence
Stephanie Moore as Brunette Roommate
Sibongile Mlambo as Blonde Roommate
Rex Linn as Manager
Laura-Leigh as Mae
Luke Baines as Jesus, leader and songwriter of the band Jesus and the Brides of Dracula
Allie MacDonald as Meek Bride
Victoria Bruno as Clara Bow Bride
Lola Blanc as Reading Glasses Bride
Silversun Pickups as Band
Sydney Sweeney as Shooting Star 2
Guy Nardulli as Door Guard
David Yow as Homeless King
Adam Bartley as Cop
June Carryl as Sheriff
Summer Bishil as EX/Billboard Girl
Karen Nitsche as Owl’s Kiss

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