lewislikesskating
By far one or lynch's best movies. When I watched Lost highway for the first time round I was left confused. When it came to watching it for the second time round it all made sense. Lost highway is a film full of mystery/romance /crime perfectly blended together. Lost highway is one of the very few films I recommend to people. In my opinion lynch's second best movie !
sleepdriver
This is a very sharp and subtle surreal mystery-horror tale that takes some key-elements off gems like "Meshes Of The Afternoon", "Double Indemnity", "Dead Of Night", "Detour", "Out Of The Past", "Kiss Me Deadly", "Last Years At Marienbad", "Carnival Of Souls", "Happy End", "Images", "Some Call It Loving", "Zigeunerweisen" and "Suture" to re-elaborate it all in a more organic and unsettling way, through mesmerizing and disturbing sequences that will never fade away from the viewer's mind and requires multiple views to be fully understood without ever becoming boring, a unique quality!
cinemajesty
Film Review: "Lost Highway" (1997)So elegantly shot alongside cinematographer Peter Deming, when director David Lynch delivers another haunting Barry Gifford novel adaptation, when character Fred Mason, performed at his career best Bill Pullman, gets into a fight then crisis with beloved wife Renee, who builds an alter ego to make her husband see that we are out time, out game and out of love to desperately surreal transitions with mind, body, character shifts that any spectre must be on its heels to follow, when everything comes along by the end to name "Lost Highway" the very first "David Lynch Movie" with its well-deserved labeling.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC
Takeshi-K
(Don't read this unless you want it explained). Fred found out that his Wife had done adult films in the past. She promised him she wouldn't do it again. He can't handle it. He's super stressed out about it and can only feel release through playing jazz and having frenetic sex with his Wife. His behavior freaks her out.She starts to reconnect with her friendships she had neglected due to her marriage. One of them is a former adult film producer/star with whom she had worked years before. Fred sees her talking to him at the party. Their somewhat over friendly behavior gets Fred really angry. They return home with Fred still seething. His Wife tells him that Dick Laurent wants her to go back to her adult film career. His hatred for her past life explodes in a moment of rage when he murders Her in their bedroom. This is the Woman he loves and married. How dare She dirty them both? He gets arrested and thrown in Jail.While in jail he reminisces about when he met her when He was younger (as Balthazar Getty), more carefree and when She was still pure in his mind. This is why we see two version of his Wife, One pure and clean the other dark and dirty. The fantasy image he wants to hold onto vs the dirty whore. He has fantasies of killing Dick Laurent too, but he can't because he is in jail. His mind finally cracks and he goes crazy, his mind wanting to only remember the good things, but the truth of the horror of his actions keep invading his thoughts. This is what the Mystery Man is. Truth. The truth about his guilt. This is why he follows Fred whever he goes. Because the Truth of our bad actions will always haunt us. Just like the intrusive video tapes. It could be argued then that the whole movie is Fred sitting in jail stewing in insane grief and guilt, yearning to escape and run free ... down The Lost Highway.
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