The film culminates in a "Wizard of Oz" style reveal: the entire fantasy is a hallucination occurring in Gaga’s mind after a traumatic car accident outside an . Every abstract element is revealed to have a real-world counterpart:
: A man banging his head against a pillow, a woman cradling a mummified body, and a mysterious masked rider on a black horse populate this landscape. Lady Gaga - 911 (Short Film)
: In a key sequence, Gaga floats toward the sky while dressed in green, which is later understood as a symbolic representation of her life nearly leaving her body. The Shocking Plot Twist The film culminates in a "Wizard of Oz"
For the majority of its runtime, the film presents a vivid, technicolor dreamscape filmed at . Gaga portrays a woman in a desert surrounded by bizarre characters and high-fashion iconography: The Shocking Plot Twist For the majority of
: The opening shots of halved pomegranates and the central desert mission are direct references to Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates .