Synopsis
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
1997 Directed by David Lynch
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Bill Pullman Patricia Arquette Balthazar Getty Robert Blake John Roselius Louis Eppolito Jenna Maetlind Michael Massee Henry Rollins Michael Shamus Wiles Mink Stole Leonard Termo Ivory Ocean Jack Kehler David Byrd Gene Ross F. William Parker Guy Siner Alexander Folk Gary Busey Lucy Butler Carl Sundstrom John Solari Jack Al Garrett Heather Stephens Giovanni Ribisi Scott Coffey Natasha Gregson Wagner Show All…
David Lynch Susumu Tokunow Frank Gaeta John Ross Derek Marcil Javier Bennassar David Melhase Benjamin L. Cook Cormac Funge Elmo Weber Bill Brown Dean Hovey Frederick Howard Jiří Zobač Thomas Jones
妖夜慌踪, Útvesztőben, 로스트 하이웨이, Шоссе в Никуда, Por El Lado Oscuro del Camino
Fred: "I like to remember things my own way"
Cop: "What does that mean?"
Fred: "How i remember them, not necessarily how they happened"
Maybe this explains the whole movie? I dont know.... My brain hurts!
David Lynch’s Lost Highway is a nightmarish noir about jealousy, repressed guilt and murder. As with many of the director’s best films it exists in an unsettling world between reality and a dream where events are not all they seem and a rigid internal logic is forsaken for a descent into the damaged mind of the film’s protagonist. Lost Highway, along with Eraserhead, might be the closest Lynch has ever come to making an out and out horror film. This is a foreboding and ominous work that is as gripping as it is bewildering.
As with much of the director’s work this is a hard film to explain and categorise. It is a film to be experienced first-hand with its…
"do you own a video camera?"
"no. fred hates them."
"i like to remember things my own way."
"what do you mean by that?"
"how i remembered them. not necessarily the way they happened."
david lynch is the biggest mood honestly because i also have no clue what the fuck is going on at any given moment
What does the Black Lodge see when it sees us? A labyrinth of doors and exits? Loops and circuits in spacetime fissured and joined, continuous until discontinuous, unidentical at every point yet self-similar? A network to transit, an environment in which to be and to become.
What is noir? Like, what does it do and how does it do it? Noir is about unequal informatics, of landscapes that shift and dissolve based upon their inhabitants and their relative positioning to each other. Noir is the set-up and the execution of the set-up. The set-up necessarily precedes those who enter into it but the set-up is not a set-up until someone wanders in to activate it as such. Noir is a…
one of the few films in cinema history
in which there is no division or distinction
between the elements of space and time;
a movie melded within an alternate
spacetime continuum, in which length,
breadth, and depth hold no usefulness
or value & the four faux dimensions fuse into
a nightmare realm of an interminable turnpike.
I wake up. I'm sweating. Lost. Confused. Annoyed. The walls are plastered with red. I hate red. The room is small, or at least I think it is. It's getting tighter the more I observe, crashing in on itself in a claustrophobic fashion. The radio is blaring, showcasing a constant thunder of cool ass tunes that correspond with the lightning storm outside. In spite of all the feverish mayhem, I happened to notice someone. His coat was the same color as the cheap paint, already having loose stitches just like the chipping boundaries of the room. He was standing in the corner. He didn't seem to care about me. He was screaming at the top of his lungs straight into…
It seems that there are at least two ways to enjoy a David Lynch film. One is to expect it to make sense and do everything you can to analyze the shit out of it until it does. The other is to just revel in the weirdness and the creativity and not worry about making all the pieces fit together.
On my first watch of Lost Highway, I can't possibly put into words what the fuck happened. I feel like there are things I implicitly understood about the narrative and the connection between the two halves of the film, but what I took away from it was a wordless feeling of unease and anxiety. I don't want to think about…
do you watch David Lynch movies at 1 in the morning as a way to escape your reality by immersing yourself in a seemingly never-ending twisted fantasy world of darkness or are you normal
Wait what? What a crazy experience. Gonna have dreams, make that nightmares, tonight while my brain tries to figure out what happened. Gotta love Henry Rollins and Marilyn Manson showing up, and what a soundtrack featuring NIN. Now to get back to the mystery....Does Patricia Arquette look better as a blonde or a redhead?
Imagine this being you first David Lynch movie.
The funniest and scariest David Lynch movie. Definitely his most experimental since Eraserhead, but I enjoy the slower pace of this one makes it more terrifying and disturbing. I love the loss of reason that Lynch constructs with his non linear storytelling. Unlike Mulholland Drive which this movie gets compared to a lot, I don't entirely understand the meaning of Lost Highway like I do Mulholland Drive. I best put it as a Lynchian nightmare that taps into the males lustful desire, misogyny and the Apollonian perception of their dreams. In another terms it's like a wet dream gone wrong, so wrong.
You know what? Maybe David Lynch's style is a style that is for me. When I watched my first Lynch movie I found it very weird and off-putting. But I am now on my 3rd Lynch movie and I love it.
This is yet another highly confusing movie, yet somehow so intelligent at the same time. Everything is meticulously done. You have no idea whats going on but after a rewatch it all makes sense. (at least somewhat lol)
One thing that makes Lost Highway more unique is that its almost entirely up to interpretation. A lot of it actually is not clarified at all like it would be in Mulholland Drive. Its also SUPER close to being a horror…
Lynch's darkest movie? Very little signs of humour in the one, which is typically a trademark of Lynch. Some camera work that he hadn't used before or since which is fantastic in a rewatch. Still a great movie, watched with my gf for her first viewing last night and she was falling asleep during it and then woke up this morning and basically cracked the whole plot wide open. For those that don't understand what this movie is about, apparently you should watch it half asleep!
Not peak Lynch for me, but still pretty ace.
90s Patricia Arquette is totally my bag tbh.
8 / 10
Lots of narrative roadblocks, even by Lynchian standards, but as with most of his work, the film invites intrigue and dissection. It isn't as emotionally potent as a Blue Velvet or as grotesquely comic as an Eraserhead but its surrealism and anti-plot create something of a meta-noir, ambiguous and cold yet hypnotic and mysterious. As for obvious undercurrents, the usual suspects are here: dark eroticism, possessive masculinity, and runaway romance.
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