The Italian TV series “Boris” refers to the film/[masterpiece] “Mulholland Drive” by David Lynch. In the movie, the main characters, Rita and Betty, open a blue box and in to which they are abruptly “sucked” [into its inside], and disappear. This extremely complex mechanism (the box represents the trauma of discovery and consciousness) is evoked in a much simpler way in the Italian TV series, when the character Ferretti is being offered an empty blue box, and his gaze lingers on [its]/the bottom; suddenly the scene dissolves into another one.

It is clearly an example of intertextuality, since a visual text contains allusions to a previous one, relying on the viewer’s knowledge and understanding.