Lost Highway
Eerie and enigmatic LA neo-noir film about a jazz musician who is suspected of murdering his wife. Lynch takes us on a journey through the subconscious where it is impossible to make logical connections between the events.
One day Fred and his wife Renee receive a mysterious videotape with recordings of their house and themselves in bed. On one of the videos, Fred kills his wife. He is arrested and sentenced, but in the death call he takes on the identity of a young car mechanic.
LOST HIGHWAY has David Lynch’s fingerprints all over it from the start. Again, Lynch takes us on a journey through the subconscious where it is impossible to make logical connections between the events.
David Lynch has always refused to explain his films. But after the premiere of LOST HIGHWAY, he offered some explanation. He indicated to have become interested in dissociative fugue, a mental illness in which people assume a completely new identity. This indeed offers a starting point for a better understanding of the film, although it is probably best to simply surrender to the dream logic of LOST HIGHWAY.