Lost Highway (1997)

Some kind of crap was filmed, even the director himself did not understand what he was shooting, as well as the actors

Unlike the Eraser Head, the Highway is more complex than just a dream. This time, Mr. Lynch, in addition to Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious, encroached on the holy of holies – space and time! The plot in the film is not just confusing – it is overly confusing! To put it simply, nothing is clear. Where are the heroes going? What's going on anyway? Who is this guy with a face like a corpse? And where did this girl come from? Questions will not leave you until the very end of the film, you will still get answers to some of them, but you will have to answer the rest yourself. It is quite possible that you will need half a lifetime and millions of views to do this. This is the main charm of this tape, which lies in the freedom of interpretation – everyone understands what is said in their own way. And if so, the film will never lose its relevance as long as someone searches for deeply hidden meanings and references in it.
I would recommend the film only to viewers who are familiar with such a specific genre as art house. The mass audience will consider the film a pretentious craft of a mentally ill person. If I were them, I wouldn't jump to conclusions, it's not for nothing that psychologists claim that there are no completely mentally healthy people. Yes, and there may be deeply hidden secrets in the minds of each of us.

Rare

Sometimes I like Lynch's work, but I was left at a loss here ... for acting, good sound, editing and some plot moves, you can forgive a lot, but just review or recommend it to someone ... well, no) it's better to review Twin Peaks))

Co-writer Barry Gifford said of the film:
"I think you could say that it's actually about a man who finds himself in a desperate situation and goes through something like a panic attack. It's incredibly difficult for him to deal with the consequences of his actions, and in a way it breaks him down. I think this is a very realistic, straightforward study of the case of a man who got lost in the face of how his life turned out. But there is much more to the film. Any explanation will be insufficient, because movies are created to be watched, not explained."

David Lynch said that while working on the film, he was impressed by the O.J. Simpson trial. If you look at the details of this case in general, the central idea of Lost Highway looms quite clearly.: In fact, this is a visualization of a dissociative fugue, which manifests itself in the inability to accept the consequences of one's actions, in the subsequent denial of one's own memories and an attempt to rewrite them (if you deny something for a very long time, at some point you can believe it yourself - or get confused about which is true and which is fiction). To some extent, this idea echoes Lynch's film "Mulholland Drive."

An excellent translation of the mental state into the film language.

As always: unsurpassed art, guesses, innuendos and complete confusion in trying to understand what is happening. Lynch is as much an artist as it is possible to detach this concept from reality. This movie is understandable and completely incomprehensible at the same time. Disturbing, filled with the absurdity of dreams and nightmares, it is strange, ridiculous and startling. The wildest movie. It's hard to love him, but it's easy to remember. It's heavy and gloomy, even in light colors. It cannot be recommended, but every connoisseur of cinematic art must watch it.

I put it off for a long time, a great movie while I was watching Mulholland, Velvet and Highway and Highway seemed more understandable to me personally. They're all interesting, but they're pretty hard to read. Gorgeous music, visual (as always) and a mystery plot. Lynch also doesn't change his love of showing off a woman's body.