blurred reality and performance

Lynch masterfully deconstructs the boundary between dream and reality, particularly in Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead, where performance and psychological fragmentation become indistinguishable.

Fassbinder explores how social performance masks authentic identity and how reality collapses under the weight of theatrical artifice in films like The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

Kaufman consistently examines the collapse of reality and performance through metanarrative and psychological disintegration, exemplified in Synecdoche, New York and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.