Lost Highway

Lynch got me there.Maybe mullohant was a 9/10 movie but this one.Fucking totally Ninja 10/10...

Its blow mind but in the end you are going το love it just pay attention...

i don't think i'll ever get tired of watching this psychedelic disturbing overwhelming film

My mind craves a narrative. It tried its best to tie everything together as logically as it could. It got somewhere that it was satisfied with. But that's not the point.

When watching a David Lynch movie, one has to let go of such pillars of moviemaking. The fact that I was so confused and tried to tie everything together makes this so beautiful. But it is not a narrative, it is a journey into an experience. Of what it is like to have a mind that is whisped away into its own distortion of reality. Without it realising how erratic the experience is.

How wonderfully discordant. How gorgeously unhinged. How gracefully unbalanced.

I went on a journey of confusion, but didn't allow myself to ride along with it. I desperately want to see it again, now that I know what its intentions are. That next experience is going to be different than the first. I think this is my favourite thing Lynch has made (that I've seen), besides Twin Peaks.

paradox

The kind of intriguing puzzle where you immediately want to discuss with other people how everything fits together after seeing it.
I love how much faith David Lynch has in visual storytelling, there’s little to no handholding through exposition, leaving just enough breadcrumbs to connect the dots.
It’s a movie that comfortably fits in that late 90s paradigm of films that critique masculinity and films that use the concept of a fake reality/unreliable narrator (the protagonist literally says: I like to remember things my own way, which I think is the key to understanding most of this movie), while also standing out because of its unique Freudian angle.
The soundtrack is incredible, most of the filmmaking is quite impressive but there are some choices that I’m not huge on (some weird editing, they make a clear effort to point out early on that the ‘mystery man’ is real, when he’s clearly just a representation of something else) and the acting’s very good (if the first act seems stiff and awkward to you, that’s intentional).

8.5/10

A truly surreal experience from a fantastic director.

Fucking mindblowing. Inside the mind of a psychopath from Sigmund Freud's point of view. A masterpiece.

“Lost Highway” is the film that opens David Lynch’s “mature” period. Loosely inspired by the OJ Simpson trial, it’s focused on the idea of “psychogenic fugue” in relation to traumatic events. Fred’s mind is desperately trying to protect itself by erasing certain memories and assuming a new identity. However, reality (represented by the videotapes taken by Mystery Man, the only entity who seems to have witnessed all events) keeps reminding him about the fallacy of subjective memory. But is video a reliable source of information? After all, what we are witnessing as viewers is a mere product of fiction.

It’s not as engaging as “Mulholland Drive” or “Inland Empire” (by far the best of his films centered on identity), but I loved the gritty, grungy atmosphere and inventive camerawork here. The first 45 minutes could classify as some of the most unsettling horror footage in film history. Badalamenti’s score is also integrated by unnerving droning sounds, popular industrial songs, and contributions by Trent Reznor to help the film build up its own unique mood.
Unfortunately, most of the tension falls apart with Pete’s lengthy segment in the middle, which felt like just like a low-key reiteration of the Blue Velvet formula.

Spectacular and mesmerising. The plot is indecipherable.

Still frozen on my seat each time I see a Lynch movie… Can’t get my brain to stop thinking even though I know I won’t get very far trying to see clearly across this ambiguous movie. Some shots are breathtaking especially the one gets close to Fred after continuously chasing after the phone. The spectator feels as if they were the threat to the character…