Lost Highway

Definitely Lynch’s best work. At first we get introduced to Fred and his corrupted mind he’s really insecure about the relationship with his wife. We can see that in the scene at the Andy’s party when Renee is more attracted to Andy than Fred. His psyche is destroyed by insecurities, he goes crazy and kills his wife.  Lost highway is definitely not an easy film to comprehend due to its symbolism and many interpretations. There are a lot of scenes that are hard to understand when you’re watching this movie for the first time. For example whole character of Mystery man, every time he appears on screen the whole atmosphere of the movie changes from tense to terrifying. His pale skin his expression and the fact that he’s not blinking followed by a phenomenal acting performance from Robert Blake makes Mystery’s man persona so haunting. I absolutely love the whole concept of his character and the meaning behind it. Mystery man represents Fred’s guilt and truth that he tries to escape.  Fred’s mind creates new life for him to cope with what he has done. He’s “reborn” as Pete young and attractive guy. Multiple women are attracted to him he is much more well known and liked than Fred and overall is a person that Fred always wanted to be. We still can see that Fred in Pete’s body remembers his real life. Great example of that is when he hears a saxophone solo on the radio as a former saxophonist he recognizes that immediately and turns the radio off. We can still see the Mystery man in Pete’s life it’s a sign that Fred still remembers what he did even though his mind created a brand new persona for him.  The thing that amazes me the most is the ending scene when Fred still in his mind plays a chase scenario and is being electrocuted in the electric chair. That climax of the film is something i haven’t seen in any other motion picture.  All right now let’s talk about my favorite scene of all time the Andy’s party scene and the moment when we are introduced to Mystery man this scene is so terrifying and well acted i really have no words to describe it. Mystery man looks like something straight out of nightmare. Even the way that he talks is so horrifying this scene never fails to give me goosebumps. When i watched this scene for the first time i couldn’t describe the way it felt. Amazingly well done scene. It has an atmosphere straight out of some horrible dream which is a common thing with Lynch’s films but this scene is really something else.  And of course i can’t forget about the scene when Alice says the words “you’ll never have me” to Pete. This scene is so important to the whole plot of the film. As soon as Pete hears these words he is instantly changes to Fred. An amazing and really meaningful scene.  I think that Lost highway is easily best Lynch’s project everything in this film is so refined and well thought out. I still didn’t watched every movie in Lynch filmography and i can’t wait to experience more of his work.