is Sonny actually insane?

I'm sure this reading of the film has been done before and so I apologize in advance for not being original if that's the case, but...has anyone ever read "Xanadu" as being the fever dream of Sonny Malone? If you read it that way, not only does it start to make sense, it actually becomes a brilliant kind of "arthouse" film...sort of like "Mulholland Drive" by Lynch!

Sonny is a frustrated artist who finally snaps when he throws the latest of his drawings/hopes out the window. The rest of the film is a fever dream he has, mixing reality and his own fantasies. The only time it becomes "lucid", taking place in the real world again, is the last scene...Sonny is standing in a mostly empty disco where he has imagined a party has been going on (I mean--just look at how Michael Beck plays his slow burn after ONJ sails off in a spray of LSD color and light--he looks like he's insane and his lithium is wearing off). He realizes at last that he's been living in dreamland all along--there was no Kira, no magic, "Xanadu" was just a club down the street all along.

Sonny sits down with Danny who is probably actually his uncle, dad or caretaker or something, then sees a waitress who bears a resemblance to the woman he "invented" (who he probably actually did see roller skating in the park or something) and approaches her.

No doubt, after the credits fade, the movie turns into Taxi Driver, with Sonny as Travis Bickell (Lembeck probably wouldn't have minded!).




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