Lost Highway
"I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened."
Originally when I watched Lost Highway I didn't understand much but it stood out to me in a way. There was just something about it that sat differently than the rest of David Lynch's films and on a rewatch I finally understand why. Before I preface this, Lost Highway Is undeniably a Lynch film but in this case I think the perspective the movie takes is what makes it stand out from anything else he made.
Normally in a Lynch film you either follow an insecure male with a saviour complex and well intentions or you follow a victim of abuse. In either situation violence is usually at the forefront of the narrative with a main perpetrator or group of perpetrators, but in Lost Highway the narrative is instead told from the viewpoint of an abuser, a violent, insolent man who creates a dream world for his ideal identity to inhabit.
Lynch hasn't been a stranger to exploring this perspective before (I.e. basically every adult male in Twin Peaks or Frank Booth in Blue Velvet) but it's always been in glimpses rather than the center of the narrative. A certain darkness is stapled all over this movie that isn't usually found in Lynch's work. Usually Lynch tries to explore how good and evil coexist but here the evil triumphs over any niceties. This might sound like Lost Highway is a miserable time compared to Lynch's other projects but instead I think it develops some of the ideas previously established in his work that have went unexplored which creats an interesting dichotomy between this and the rest of his work.
Overall this change in perspective allows an utterly new experience in the already renound Lynchian style that asks us to examine the darkest parts of ourselves and the people we know. The insecurities, the worries, the jealousies, the things that incite violence and disallow us to love. There's not a simple answer to any of these insights and this movie is far from simple but the fact it allows not only the characters but the viewer to dig so deep into their psyche and recognise this darkness is phenomenal and acts as a testament of David Lynch's brilliance.