LOST HIGHWAY...


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By Strange on Monday, August 17, 1998 - 08:16 pm:

    I've recently veiwed David Lynch's latest brainchild about four times and I've just about got the plot peiced together, however before I entertain with my theory I would like to know the interpretations that others have given the film.

    Nummy nummy,
    Strange


By Strange on Sunday, August 23, 1998 - 09:23 pm:

    Oh Come On! Is there no one who has seen LOST HiGHWAY?!? Respond!


By Strange on Wednesday, August 26, 1998 - 04:48 pm:

    Dag nab it.


By Nate on Wednesday, August 26, 1998 - 08:32 pm:

    i saw it a long time ago.

    i don't really have much to say about it though. i don't remember much, and what i do remember is a shambles.

    i found it interesting that he talked to himself on the intercom.

    i dig the sound track.

    your turn.


By Strange on Thursday, August 27, 1998 - 05:40 pm:

    See you have to watch it until you get it. It's so muck better that way. Rent it and view it once or twice more and tell me what you think (just a suggestion, disregard at your leisure). Also, I must agree, one of the best soundtracks in quite a while.

    Overjoyed I'm not alone here,
    Strange


By Blindswine on Thursday, August 27, 1998 - 06:59 pm:

    fuck all that. cough up the theory. i sat through that movie last summer and ended up shaking my head and wondering "why?". i can't remember much about the film now... all i know that it left me cold.
    I did dig Robert Blake's character...

    now that i'm remembering more about it... it wouldn't surprise me if the whole film were some kind of practical joke that Lynch had decided to play on his non-linear loving art-house fanbase.

    if i remember correctly, the last half had so many fascinating, meaningless images that it looked like a spoof of a david lynch movie.



By Deto on Thursday, August 27, 1998 - 08:25 pm:

    i was actually thinking along the swine's lines.

    a big joke for the 'discuss' crowd.


By Strange on Thursday, August 27, 1998 - 10:57 pm:

    I've seen it four or five times now and I _think_ I have it figured out. Thing is that nobody gets it the first time through. As was said, the first time I saw it the film was just a nice long sequence of subtly disturbing images, but once you get it, you get it. Here's how it works. The 'mystery man' (as the charicter is billed in the credits) is God/Satan/Fate/Supreme power. Frank is Pete. Pete killed Renee. Renee is Alice. Alice doesn't actually exist. Dick Larante must die. See, the timeline loops repeating itself backwards over and over, the first hitch- when Renee is killed it was Pete that did it (you know how his parents keep talking about 'that night' and while thinking about it Pete gets the flashback image of Renee's body) however Frank is blamed. That's why he's replaced by pete in his cell, the mystery man will not see Frank die for sins that aren't his. Later on when Pete becomes Frank again it's because it's Frank that must kill Mr. Eddy, because Mr. Eddy was with Renee, betraying Frank (or trying to). Alice exists as the dead Renee. Aagh. It's hard to explain. Just watch it a few times. You'll get it eventually.

    Oi veigh,
    Strange


By Strange on Thursday, August 27, 1998 - 11:00 pm:

    Forgot to mention...
    Originally a theory that a friend and I came up with for it was that it was some twisted party game Lynch thought up, for people to theorize how the movie works for hours on end.
    That was wrong.
    It has a point.
    Really.

    Hello,
    Strange


By Starchy on Monday, August 31, 1998 - 10:57 am:

    Why does bizarre, "disturbing" imagery have to have a meaning behind it? Why does it need to be analysed?

    Of course, on this note, I much preferred Eraserhead. Taking it a bit further, Dali's Un Chien Andalou absolutely blew me away.

    For me, that imagery is enough in and of itself. If the imagery works, I could care less about anything else that goes into the movie.


By Quidam on Tuesday, September 1, 1998 - 05:41 am:

    Starchy,

    Un Chien Andalou --- FABULOUS! I begged my more conventional friends (you know, those who think that Lethal Weapon 4 is the epitome of fine movie going entertainment) to go see it with me. No dice. I was thrilled when a rental place nearby finally started carrying it.


By Deto on Tuesday, September 1, 1998 - 06:38 am:

    ack. pixies. ack.

    why? why?

    in my head. ack. pixies. ack.


By Starchy on Tuesday, September 1, 1998 - 10:32 am:

    I'm lucky enough to live right near the Harvard Film Archive... last month, they were showing it in a double feature with L'Age D'Or. I was sploogin'.

    Try and get the pixies in your pants, next time. Much more fun, that way.


By Strange on Friday, September 4, 1998 - 06:14 pm:

    One should note that both 'Un Chien Andalou' and 'L'Age D'Or' were a combined effort of both Dali and Bounuell.


By R.C. on Saturday, September 5, 1998 - 11:11 pm:

    I rented "Lost Highway" on video some time ago. To me/it was nothing but an upscale soft-core porno film. If anybody other than Lynch had directed it/it wd have gone straight to video from day one. But I'm not a big Lynch fan. I enjoyed "Twin Peaks"/but that was a miniseries. ("Fire Walk with Me" sucked.) The only one of his flicks I ever really dug was "Wild at Heart"/which had a definite plot & only 2 basic characters. I never 'got' "Blue Velvet" either. I think he's into weirdness for weirdness' sake/pretending to be the deep & mystical 'auteur'. In other words/a pretentious Hollywood twit.

    I have no problem with non-linear plotlines or supernatural overtones. (Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" is one of my favorite films.) But the older I get & the more I write/the more I realize that telling a simple story abt real people dealing with real life is one of the hardest things to do well. When you don't have mega-watt explosions & special f/x to rely on/or shifts in timeframe to muddle things/you've got to engage yr audience by creating interesting, multi-faceted charcters that they can realte to/flaws & all. David Lynch doesn't choose "simple" films like that. I wd interpret "Lost Highway" as a rich, White, pseudo-independent male director's chance to put his sexual fantasies up on screen while still maintaining his A-List status. But y'know, that's just me. Lots people think Lynch is a genius.


By Strange on Monday, September 7, 1998 - 03:29 pm:

    Thing is that the sex had little to do with it. Of course the sex was part of the plot but the actual sexual act itself was not an important part of the movie. My personal opinion is that those scenes were just showing how ugly and horrid the whole thing was. The scenes were not sentual or blissful to the charicters; it was the apiffany of the word 'fuck'. Lynch made the act more disgusting than anything else. But then again, that's just my opinion.

    Harumph,
    Strange


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