Lost Highway

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It amazes me how people will call something art, just because it doesn´t make sense. "I don´t get it, so the artist (writer, direstor, whatever) must be genuis!" Don´t be fooled. D.Lynch had a bad dream and decided to make it into a movie. Just like dreams it doesn´t make sense. People and locations change. There is no discernible plot. By the time the movie ends, you´ll be wondering why it ended here of all places when the merciful thing to do would have been to end it after half an hour. If anything this movie proves that if you´ve got a big name you can make crap and people will love it. I gave the movie 1 out of 10. I wanted to give it 0, but 1 is the lowest you can give. So it gets a "1" for the first half hour which was kinda spooky.

The plot was confusing to say the least, but the cinamatography was excellent. It was often frantic, dreamy, disturbing, it even acheived a tarentino-esque quality at one piont. In my mind this was much better than blue velvet. The camerawork and effects were the most haunting I have ever seen. This is a must see for any film buff or aspiring director.

Have you never wanted to kill? An intense artist, a cuckhold, an inadequate, aware of his wife's history and infidelities, and his own failings, turns the corner. The souless apartment they inhabit is unloved. The gap between need and satisfaction is breached only by increasingly voyeuristic and violent paranoia. A videotape of the apartment exterior arrives, someone is watching. In a second tape, the observer ventures further. The camera films them sleeping. A disastrous party, wife drunk in another man's arms, an encounter with a dark force at the bar. Disturbed sleep. A third tape in the morning shows the cold, murderous fact. Some history can't be redescribed. You can try to justify a terrible crime in fantasy if you wish, but the truth is inescapable.

In this day and age, there are few film makers who are no longer just in it for the money, few who don't stick with the same old formulas. David Lynch is one of them. Being a Lynch fan, I was a little cautious watching this, thinking he might have sold out, but this is PURE Lynch! Great film that makes you feel different after viewing it. Highly original, and Fantastically directed, this is one of his best. 10/10

David Lynch's philosophy has always been art over entertainment, and this film continues that trend. However this is Lynch's most entertaining film to date, despite the slow start and annoyingly whispered dialogue. This odd film centers around a jazz saxophonist(Pullman) who is convicted of murdering his wife(Arquette). While in prison, he transforms into a twenty four year old mechanic wiz(Getty), but that little plot line never gets fully explained. This film will leave many viewers scratching their heads, which is always Lynch's intent, but if you can't follow the plot, just enjoy the soundtrack, which features Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails, and Patricia Arquette showing off her flawless form often. Finally something decent by David Lynch.