Be prepared to watch multiple viewings of "Lost Highway". It's not that the film is confusing, the film is just that fascinating. You'll want to watch it again to see the narrative from a different angle or maybe catch something you missed. Possibly one of the most abstract and frustrating films ever made...and that's a compliment. Lynch is a great director but with "Lost Highway" he made his masterpiece. A truly intoxicating film, it not for every movie goer. It's a little out there for even "Twins Peak" standards.
The plot revolves around a sax playing husband Fred (Bill Pullman) who begins to suspect his wife is unfaithful. He soon discovers her past is connected to pornographic filmmakers and she mysteriously turns up dead. Sentenced for her murder, the husband supernaturally changes into a completely different person over night in his jail cell. Once released he meets a doppelganger of his deceased wife. What follows is the twisting and dark road of the lost highway.
It's a film that seems to be playing on multiple levels with several different interpretations being valid. Is it all a fantasy created by Fred? Is there something more sinister and supernatural occurring? Are we witnessing an alter version of events that transpired (Fred's discovery of his wife's betrayal)? It's all how the viewer interprets the narrative. A masterpiece of story telling and film making. Great performances all around. And Patricia Arquette in this film...Holy hell, she has to be the sexiest woman ever put on screen! See this film...with an open mind. Like watching a dream.
The plot revolves around a sax playing husband Fred (Bill Pullman) who begins to suspect his wife is unfaithful. He soon discovers her past is connected to pornographic filmmakers and she mysteriously turns up dead. Sentenced for her murder, the husband supernaturally changes into a completely different person over night in his jail cell. Once released he meets a doppelganger of his deceased wife. What follows is the twisting and dark road of the lost highway.
It's a film that seems to be playing on multiple levels with several different interpretations being valid. Is it all a fantasy created by Fred? Is there something more sinister and supernatural occurring? Are we witnessing an alter version of events that transpired (Fred's discovery of his wife's betrayal)? It's all how the viewer interprets the narrative. A masterpiece of story telling and film making. Great performances all around. And Patricia Arquette in this film...Holy hell, she has to be the sexiest woman ever put on screen! See this film...with an open mind. Like watching a dream.