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Great Page! Great Photos!
Don't have an address right now. I'm using the system at work, which also hasn't an email/internet capability.
I like your page! It's exciting and painfully interesting! Ha! The effects are outstanding! I never imagined that somebody else's life could be as interesting as my own. I share your love for cats. My main interests right now are writing and finding a job that will pay me to stay home and write!
Here's my number: 818-387-5853 Call! I'll send you a chapter A.S.A.P.
Later! David Marion
Heh...nice job...you've really improved it
Jason, your page is exactly the type of analysis of "Lost Highway" that I have been searching for.
Great work! I am forced to see the film again.
damn jason interesting web page .... i must say ur very creative ... i hope u dont hate me, although u dont know me so u shouldnt ... but i know u do , anyway its kirsten.. I hope all is well with you , and you found a girl who can please you ..please forgive me for what i did to you .. it wasnt supposed to happen that way .. I just had a horrible Experience and the last thing on my mind was meeting you . i hope u understand .. Bye
damn jason interesting web page .... i must say ur very creative ... i hope u dont hate me, although u dont know me so u shouldnt ... but i know u do , anyway its kirsten.. I hope all is well with you , and you found a girl who can please you ..please forgive me for what i did to you .. it wasnt supposed to happen that way .. I just had a horrible Experience and the last thing on my mind was meeting you . i hope u understand .. Bye
There are very few people in this world that I have met that have given me a new perspective on life. Jason is one of them. From the organic chemistry labratory in new jersey to a cross-country adventure to the beaches and bookstores of california, he has always been a true friend. I can honestly say that my life is better for knowing him. Your web page is great although you should link to the view askew page...remember your new jersey roots. May God grant you all the happiness you deserve and may God grant me the privelage of experiencing the world with you again.
-Monique "there are lots of *people* in this world, not all of them bring you lasagna, most of them just cheat on you" "excitement and adventure, a jedi craves these not" (silent bob, clerks and mallrats)
Very impressive! Do you recall studies which showed that jet pilots were more susceptible to epileptic convulsions, but obviously were also better coordinated in mastery and execution of complex tasks??
Perhaps ADD and creativity/intelligence are similarly linked. (Hypothesis)
Your comments please!
regards
David
Many thanks from Russia for nice appearance of your site
Best regards, Nicolai
Many thanks from Russia for nice appearance of your site
Best regards, Nicolai
Pretty cool.... Web site. I like the car section. My first car was the 69 Datsun roadster. I had a blast with the roadster. I am a Datsan/Nissan fan myself. In high school I had a Z car club. I had a 71 240z in high school. Actually I am starting to look for a used 300zx. Any recommendation? What year is a good year?
Great page...Found it by looking up the family name, Currently working on a family tree.
I work for Lucent Technologies and live in Santa Clara, Ca.
Any information that you can share would be appreciated.
Have a great new years....Greg Dessel
This site is truly excellent. Finally I have at least some understanding of this crazy movie. One thing I had absolutely no clue about before was the part with Mr. Eddy and DL. I basically had no clue as to who DL was. The movies were great.
This site is truly excellent. Finally I have at least some understanding of this crazy movie. One thing I had absolutely no clue about before was the part with Mr. Eddy and DL. I basically had no clue as to who DL was. The movies were great.
excellent web page, you definitely went way in depth on this one. Lost Highway is probably my favorite Lynch film and you helped me pick up on some of the important things I missed.
Jason I like the web sight. Also, we have the same last name. My brother Greg told me about it so thought I would say Hi. You may be far from NJ but you have landed in the land of Dessels. There are a lot of us in this State. If interested email me back. I am Jim Dessel.
Dear Jason; Great Web-site. Love everything: the photos, the car-passion, "The Lost Highway" analysis, travel & photo sections, cat section, pharmacology section and SPOOKY sound effects. I'm wondering if that molecule is "ergot". Your Web-site is, without a doubt, one of the most original, engaging and entretaining that I have ever visited. I'm wondering if you might one day include a section on nootropics. I too am fascinated with their potential and always on the look-out for new information. Keep up the fabulous work, it's well worth it.
Yours truly,
Tim from Montreal
Very ambitious site you manage, keep up the good work!
I really enjoyed the movie bits. But I have to say that after reading the script, I believe that the explanation is a bunch of bull shit. As a suggestion, next time before making an "explanation" page, don't be ignorant and do some research.
Thank you Jason. It's a great page you've got here.
Simply riveting page . . . really makes sense now . . . Thanks so damn much!!! LYNCH is superb, up there with any Kubrick or Stone movies. Thanks again.
This website is such a monumentous helper! I have a hard time determining reality from emotion in some movies and had not seen a David Lynch film before so I was unsure what to expect. I watched it twice, intrigued and determined to find my own meaning. The emotion idea flew right by my head for some reason and now I understand! Everything on here makes damn good sense and I can't wait for more! David Lynch should pay you to keep this site up, because now he has intrigued me and now I have to see all his movies, past and future! Thanks. Davin Hall
whoever did this is a fucking nerd with fuck all better to do keep your poxy fuckin opinions to yourself
sailor ripley
my david isnt to impressed with your somewhat unthought of and weak explanations try again small stuff
this is a kick ass site.....thanks for explaning it....im gonna go watch it again.........thanx............
Jason - you're close. Note the moments when we hear This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren." Also note when Pete's parents disappear after Mr. Eddy's phone call. And the final scene in the car - is Fred really transforming again, or is that him being electrocuted in the electric chair? (There is an earlier voice-over of the judge saying he is condemned to die in the ELECTRIC CHAIR.)
Thanks for not being yet another person who said this movie made no sense.
balthazar getty is so hot! i want to meet him!
Good Job,
I just saw the movie twice in the last three days, WOW! Quite a good piece of art. I have one comment about your interpretation, The Blue flashes of light, Have you thought that this maybe represents his eventual death by ELectric Chair (it was mentioned in the sentencing part. I believe that everything is there because David put it there on purpose, so that is my interp.
Rob Walker UWO London Ontario CANADA
Very cool site! I do not accept your interpretations of Lost Highway, however. I prefer to think of Blake as another type of 'Bob' entity as seen on Twin Peaks and Fred/Pete as just a pawn in his game. I did enjoy hearing you thoughts though.
Thank you so much for making this website. This has been my favorite movie ever since I saw it for the first time in the theaters. I bought it later on and lent it out to my friends- but I could never tell them what the movie was about. I thought about it many times- but not as deeply as you! It is always easy to first think that Pete was a young Fred- but the evidence says no. But thanks for doing all the thinking for me! I bet you write poetry... I have written many poems about this movie, maybe I will send you some later. I don't have an e-mail address.
Thanks again, Elise
Thank you so much for making this website. This has been my favorite movie ever since I saw it for the first time in the theaters. I bought it later on and lent it out to my friends- but I could never tell them what the movie was about. I thought about it many times- but not as deeply as you! It is always easy to first think that Pete was a young Fred- but the evidence says no. But thanks for doing all the thinking for me! I bet you write poetry... I have written many poems about this movie, maybe I will send you some later.
Thanks again, Elise
great stuff that i saw. i like it. hey, can you tell me what the mystery man whispers to fred out in the desert in the last few minutes of the film?
Great website! I couldn't make heads or tails out of that movie when I first saw it, but after checking this site out, it all made a lot more sense and I realized that this wasn't a bad movie at all after all. This site is very insightful and informative and well worth the time to carefully read it all. Makes you want to go see the movie again.
HEY!!!! Very Cool licence picture!! Very cute Jason!!!=-)! By the way Dilantin is a anti-convulsant!! I looked it up!
Karin
MATE YOU ARE FUCKING GOD , I HAVE JUST READ MOST OF YOUR WEB SITE WHAT CAN I SAY ITS THE DOGS BOLLOCKS GREAT! I AM A TOTAL FAN OF D.L. EVER SINCE EVER SINCE BUT I HAVE TO SAY L.H. THREW ME. WHEN ME AND MY FRIEND WATCHED IT THE OTHER NIGHT.
NOW I AM BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT OR RATHER THE FIRE.....
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STARTING ME OFF ON MY OWN JOURNEY ALONG THE LOST HIGHWAY.....
I THINK WHEN I HAVE WATCHED IT ANOTHER 20-30 TIMES I WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE A MORE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION BUT FOR NOW....
I AM TRULEY IN AWE....
CHEERS.... DAVE.
well fuck me, had to put my sax down to take another look at your site. it looks good to me. if that molecule ain't caffeine, choclate or licorice I DONT CARE. fuck regret.
Jason,
Enjoyed your web page. Work with David Dolgen and Anita Pace on network problems more often now as our networks merge. I too am a network analyst working out of White Plains for Seagrams.
Jason, my friend, you are a very ambitious man. After studying Lost Highway extensively myself, I must say you managed to point out things I hadn't noticed. This page rocks. Viva la Lynch!
congrats, my man! this is an excellent analysis of the probably best (and weirdest) movie I've ever seen. your page was a great help for me to fully (er, well...) understand what I first considered simply abstract art. keep up the spirit!
luki k
A very good site! I love your explanations of Lost Highway. They really make a lot of sense.
People ask for criticism but all they want is praise. i like your website jason
The lost highway page is the best I've ever seen. I printed the page out and let some of my friends who like the movie read it. They were all impressed!!
Are you on drugs? LSD? How could you make such connections. It seemed so abstract, like a piccaso. A beautiful interpretation.
That page is perfect and I hope David Lynch comes accross it and lets you know if he likes it or not..
Wouldn't that be a hoot? :)
And what about Twin Peaks "Fire walk with me" What did you think about that movie?
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely, Mike D. from Spokane WA
This page kicks ASS!
WOW!
this page kicks ass. thanks!
in ur pics the first one the wava at the beach when u click on it it doesnt get bigger u need to change it ok
Let me sing the praise of Toronto:
Ahem! Toronto is dull Toronto is fat Toronto makes me want to kill a cat. I hope your nissan drives well You get an E for effort on the Lost Highway Pages. I wish Toronto would fall off the map.
Thank you very much for listening to my Vogon poetry.
Get off my ship. -Sean
Jason, Nice web site, you are really talented. I have never seen one so creative.
What a very beautiful page you have made.
Hi there! I love your website...I have bookmarked it and will be back! I found it from Barefooters.com... My webstie is www.geocities.com/luvdragons15 Keep up the good work! See ya! ~Wendy
kick-ass web site dude!
Very good analysis of Lost Highway; very enjoyable to read.
Like, hi Jason. You're like, cool and stuff. Can I see your butt?
Like, hi Jason. You're like, cool and stuff. Can I see your butt?
wonderful page. i am going to tell all my friends about this. they never want to watch lost highway with me but they might after seeing this.
Hi, Jason! I spotted your page a year ago, when I fell in love with "Lost Highway" to the point that I decided to write a dissertation on a subject of madness (this topic also includes film "Betty Blue" by Beineix). Anyway, I agree with everything you described in your pages on symbolism and would like to strongly recomend this site to anybody interested in what I think is Lynch's best film and my personal favourite. And, by the way -> Greetings from foggy London!!!!!!
Thanks for a massive inspiration!
Anita
dude, the site is rad !
Hi J! I forgot how cool your website is.
Hi Jason, I was looking for some of the Lost Highway soundtracks when I came across your site. I adore Lynch & saw the lost highway several times... Beside the fact that this movie makes you wondering, I especially like certain scenes and impressions... Lynch knows how to create a certain feeling, in order to do so he combines colours, strong images sounds and music in such an amazing way. I don't feel the need to explain the movie... cuz I believe it must remain a bid mystical. Nevertheless I book marked your site: you do have a remarkable insight...intriguing…
Patrick, Belgium...
Great work on explaining the apparently unexplainable! (Lost Highway)
Up until your resume I was amazed how many interests we shared; please tell me you like Open Source as well as Micro$oft! :-)
Pete
david lynch rules....but astroids is the bomb!!!!
Great page! Very insightful... thank you! I'm going to watch Lost Highway again... RIGHT NOW!!
your webpage is interesting. from what i've read,here are the qualities i've gathered about u :talented, artistic, intelligent, funny, responsible - sum total: great person.
Hello Jason,
After reading your Guest book I was disappointed with the people who left rude entries. People in the internet community can often lack social grace. People can be as rude as they want when they have no face. So I'm sorry for that.
I mostly wanted to thank you for all of the hard work that went into putting this website together. I found it very interesting to hear your opinions, critique, and commentary. I didn't completely agree with all of your analysis, but that is perfectly fine. Everybody has their own way they see things and interpret things. Everybody doesn't have to always agree. That's what makes it great to hear other ideas. I guess not everybody sees it that way. Anyway thanks for this website. I enjoyed reading it.
Hello Jason,
After reading your Guest book I was disappointed with the people who left rude entries. People in the internet community can often lack social grace. People can be as rude as they want when they have no face. So I'm sorry for that.
I mostly wanted to thank you for all of the hard work that went into putting this website together. I found it very interesting to hear your opinions, critique, and commentary. I didn't completely agree with all of your analysis, but that is perfectly fine. Everybody has their own way they see things and interpret things. Everybody doesn't have to always agree. That's what makes it great to hear other ideas. I guess not everybody sees it that way. Anyway thanks for this website. I enjoyed reading it.
hi jason,
thanks to your homepage i am about to watch the LH once again today. iīve seen it for the first time and i was impressed and also confused. so i looked up some pages about the movie and found yours. your page made me think a little different about it, so i decided to take another 2 hours to watch it again. you are pretty good in interpreting the diffent persons and i really liked to read everything about it. even though iīve never signed a personīs guestbook i donīt know, i thought it was worth it this time, since youīve really deserved it. how long did it take you to figure everything out? probably forever... your hompage was probably the first one in which i read about everything. usually i donīt really like to read too much - i rather look at pictures, but i couldnīt stop reading your "analysis". you seen to be a pretty cool person with great interests/hobbies and i hope youīll keep on writing such great stuff. since iīm also interested in photography i have to say: i like your photos a lot and especially the b/w ones. good job! so enjoy watching DL movies and stay cool! greetings from germany....
*shorty*
I just wanted to say:Thanks-for this page.
Ooof, I have a headache! I checked out your site from top to bottom, wow! I got your web address from you at another website. Soon you will connect this entry to the other site. I am new there so I have a couple of things to download prior to contacting you again. Other things: I too enjoy photography, worked at Universal until May 2, 2001 (Production for upper lot recreation group-themepark citywalk stuff), am also a spontaneous driver of sorts(Ojai is a fun quick destination that makes for beautiful photos). You are an interesting bloke.
Earthling (aka Earthy Brown Eyed Girl).
wow! nice job on that! David Lynch is the best but Lost Highway is deffinetly my fave film ever. It was really cool to see other peoples perceptions of it... oh and i really liked the things to look out for part about the very beginning of the film! Laterz
Lost Highway best explained on the entire web! Search no further!
Love the site. LH is a great movie, and a lot of your site made me go "Yeah! That's a good point."
Great work.
hey there. sexy web page. I'm currently trying to write an essays on Lost highway (comparative with fightclub and EA Poe so if you have any suggestions... :P). anyhow I found it very informative and useful, thankyou very much. I hope you dont mind if i quote you a little. also. Incase anyone reads this that could shed any light on the biggest problem i had on this film.
What do you think happened 'that night' when Pete disseappeared? Both Shiela and His parents talk about it often as though something very scary and strange took placce yet we are never told. anyonegot anytheories? please email me if anyone has any comments I'd love to here them.
cheers
Jason,
Recently I read an article about how Groundhog Day was an awesome film translation of existentialism (Psychology Mag.). But, being a long time fan of this film find that this movie is a great example of existentialism, perhaps bordering absurdism, but still a great example. Existentialism I have always felt is backed up by the scientific phenom known as entropy, which the film has also great examples of, the burning cabin, and Freds psychotic madness creates a mobius strip universe that he will be forever damned in (mobius strip being closed, only allows for entropy to rise) I feel that if we continued to follow the movie into the future, we would find things the same, as Fred in a circle, but very different, graver and more cruel. Of course chaos can't move on forever, and as Mystery Man promised, Fred would die. But I wonder- how does Freds psychosis affect the rest of the world around him? This is the best site for one of the best films ever made. Keep it up.
Angeline
What the Internet was for - a fantastic site!
Jason, great web page. Good idea to field some ideas on this wonderfully convoluted film. I have a question regarding the soundtrack. Which I purchased with the intention of getting the one song by "that woman" during the lovemaking scene between the protagonist and the blond woman in the desert. That song is not on the soundtrack and I wanted to know who it is and where I can get it. Great voice. Good tune.
Jason, great web page. Good idea to field some ideas on this wonderfully convoluted film(lost highway. I have a question regarding the soundtrack. Which I purchased with the intention of getting the one song by "that woman" during the lovemaking scene between the protagonist and the blond woman in the desert. That song is not on the soundtrack and I wanted to know who it is and where I can get it. Great voice. Good tune. dave
Thank you so much, now that movie makes a whole lot more sense.
i just wanted to add - that in the lost highway hotel, the room is always 26, and someone told me once that it's the devils number
there are 2 - 6's plus the 6 that exists in reality in the form of 26 - so that makes 666... i thought that it was a bit ironic. i'm one for details of the such.. hope that helped a bit, or if u think it's b.s. that's cool too.. thanks again
Talullah
Hi Buddy, How have you been? I miss you sooooooooooooooooooooooo much. Bye for now Sorry I did not look at your page too much, but my computer is so god damn slow, it took me 45 minutes to get this far. It's taken me almost 1/2 just for me to type this message. All the nice comments I saw on your page....say ditto for me. I really need a good computer guy to upgrade my system.
Hello Jason,
Thanks for the "Lost Highway" stuff! When I first saw the movie I was immediately intrigued by it, but I was completely in the dark about what it could mean. I tried but couldn't figure it out. Your explanation made a lot of sense and made me like the movie even more! Thanks.
Groeten from Gerard from Holland.
I think Lynch made a movie that wanted to screw up your mind so badly, that you are left up in confusion and fear because you see that the things we take as granted in our lives in order to live it properly, are totally uncertain and arbitrarily. What really is the case is that we live in a fascinating and huge (infinte?) universe that we think we can understand better and better, but in fact our mind is totally UNABLE to understand what is going on here and how does it all make sense. Just like in this movie.
Beside, I think that you have a really good page - I was looking just for such a thing.
Bye, Chris
your analysis of Lost highway was great, it kinda fits with the ideas I have about Mulholland Drive as well [if you've not seen that yet then you really should, its a fantastic film] good work! H
I tip my hat to the amount of work and analysis you put into this film ,however, I think you are reaching a little far with some of your ideas(its very easy to do-especially when dealing with Mr. Lynch). Bob
This is a very nice site for to help the blind see more like Lynch. However, I stress that people see the film and draw their own conclusions before they read any of the detailed information on the film here. Remember Lynch started film when he wanted to see paintings move, it seems with film we leave less room for interpretation. Viva Lynch! Blue Velvet and Eraserhead are awesome! I HIGHLY RECCOMEND MULHOLLAND DRIVE!! :-P
Hi! I had my third dosage of the film last night. During the second one (which was about two years ago), i experienced what i believe was a moment of truth: something clicked in my mind and i thought i understood everything for about five minutes or so. Later, while trying to explain my newfound theory to my friends, i realised in horror that i couldn't do it AT ALL...!
This year, after watching Mulholland Drive twice, i decided to watch the Lost Highway again, just to see if i could touch that truthful moment once more. When i failed, i decided to search on the net to see if there was a site that provided ANY clue, ANY explanation that would lead me to the exhilarating revelation of truth.
I couldn't believe my own eyes when i found this incredibly well organized site of yours. You 've done a truly great job and i'm sure i'm not the first to be telling you this. If anyone managed to actually get close to the true meaning of the Lost Highway (assuming there IS such a thing, of course, harharhar), well... it must be you. THUMBS UP!!! :-)
i appreciate your thoughts-- dissection of this work of art is inevitable, since it is so cryptic. it is the only movie i have ever analyzed in writing myself (besides school projects). your ideas are good. thanks. and....happy trails....tooo... yooooouuuuu!
Hi Jason! I am a boy aged 19 in Norway who love Lost Highway. Just seen it one time but MAN!! what a movie! I really love David Lynch and this website was really great I must say. I totally agree with you when you say that the world of Lynch is a strange and somewhat "secret" world and therefore it is impossible or difficult to know surtain things for shure. Anyway I have many of the same viewes that you have and it is really cool to discuss the film and its complex story. That`s just what makes this film so fucking great. By that I mean that I think maybe that is what Lynch wants us to do. But I would really like if you could tell me more about this thing with the intercom and why he speaked into it at the end of the film. I would really appreciate that Jason! So long dude!
Jason - enjoyed your site!
Onto Lynch's latest offering...I'd like your opinion on the significance of the cowboy in Mulholland Drive - what was that all about? All that stuff about seeing him once more or twice more depending if the director "got it right" - i mean yes - we do get to see him "once more" in the movie .... I'd be interested in your comments..
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Your pages looks really good even here in Finland! :D
thank you so much for this insight. it's been a great influence on my understanding of lost highway.
How u livin????
I like your website, it looks like a lot of work! I am impressed! Can you make me one for my headshots and such? JMM :)
I'm in your house
thanks very much for your page, jason. i'm studying postmodernism at university in New Zealand and i have to analyse three postmodern films. needless to say i was confused by 'The Lost Highway' and wasn't sure what to write for my essay. Your page was very helpful and cleared a lot of stuff up for me. Keep up the good work, Helen.
Great website! After viewing this movie... I was pretty confused. I said to myself "I have to go on the internet to find out if there is an explanation to this movie". I think you really managed to bring out the true meaning of the film and your explanations have brought light to many unanswered questions. I have to admit that "The Lost Highway" really had me lost... The fact that someone (David Lynch) can create such a bizarre and twisted tale is quite amazing. I will definately have to view more of his films. Thanks for the very interesting explanation... I am now going to view the film for a second time while keeping these details in mind.
previous message had the wrong e-mail address...
I posted the wrong e-mail address on the previous message...
your website about "the lost highway" is absolutely cool! thinking about creating another site for "mulholland drive" too? :)
i originally stopped by to look at the art, but damn, theres just so much more :)
and hes cute
Great site. Really sheds some light on this very difficult and intriguing movie. It feels like you have solved me a dream...
Dear Jason, Thanks a lot! I saw Lost Highway recently (twice) and loved it. After seeing it I wondered if anyone else felt the same way and I found your site. I really enjoyed it. It fact, I'm going to go back and explore it some more.
Love the movie, many questions will forever remain unanswered. But, what I would like to know most, and I hope you have the answer, is what that song is when Pete and Alice make love in the desert right before he changes back to Fred. It is not on the soundtrack album, which is a real shame because it is such a beautiful song. It also featured in a perfume ad for Cacharel I think it was. So what is the title and who sings it? Anyone? Thank you! Kim from Belgium.
Hi. Great site. Just finished reading it all and really enjoyed it. Also read the script--surprised at how fast it was. I think it took less time to read it than to watch the film. Noticed something while reading the script that clicked with something you said in your analysis: that Mr. Eddy/Dick Laurent is Fred's conscience or the voice in your head that tells you when something is a bad idea. It's the driving scene (a scene I also enjoy sheerly at face value--who wouldn't love to do that to bad drivers?). First Mr. Eddy asks Pete to listen to the engine and tell him if anything sounds wrong. Maybe this is like Fred's conscience prompting him to re-think his actions and beliefs because they're ultimately self-destructive. Then Mr. Eddy punishes the hell out of a bad driver--appropriate for a being representing conscience. If you don't want to be psychotic you have to take the trouble to think of other people's welfare. If you don't want to cause a car crash you have to be aware of other cars.
Hi, great page about greatest movie in time! I have never before thought as much about a movie than I did with the lost highway...and mulholland drive (website coming soon!???). Lynchology! Greets from Germany! George P.S.: Dick Laurent is dead!
just watched this movie for the first time and didn't follow any of it, but after checking out your interpretations of it, it becomes more and more clear. i can't wait to see it again and try to figure more of it out. thanks, for a great page, kev
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! It all makes sense to me now. I rented this for the first time on Sat. July 27, 2002. I read a review of it on a review site. I thought it sounded interesting. And i had previously heard the soundtrack (which is great). So i decided to give the movie a chance. I did realize that David Lynch is very artistic in his filmmaking so i rented the film knowing that i probably wouldnt get the meaning. But thanks to you, Lost Highway turned out to be the most clever movie Ive ever seen. Not to mention the wierdest. Thanks so much for explaining this impressive story. &! nbsp; Sincerly, Matt
Jason, very nice website. I came here for LOST HIGHWAY information. I ended up looking at your entire site. I will talk to you more about that later, via email or this guestbook. Now, some stuff about LOST HIGHWAY...
I first saw this movie in 1997 with a friend. It was my first David Lynch movie ever. After that viewing I did not get it (of course). My friend kept referring to R. Blake's character as "the svengali". Fast forward to April 2002. I rented MULHOLLAND DRIVE and watched it with pure enjoyment. The movie ended and I immediately watched it a second time. I then watched it again the next day. In short, I became obsessed with the sotry and the symbolism. I then rented BLUE VELVET and WILD AT HEART. They were OK, but not great, in my opinion.
Recently, the friend who watched LOST HIGHWAY with me send me an email about the movie. It inspired me to watch it again. I am watching it now, and there are many similarities with MULHOLLAND DRIVE. I know I will watch it several times. Anyway, this is the email my friend sent me. Maybe you will find this interesting...
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Finally some insight into David Lynch's "Lost Highway"... which has baffled us for so long. It's even more interesting now that Robert Blake is a killer. Quotes from Patricia Arquette:
"I play in this movie two different interpretations of one and the same woman. I know it's strange...A lot of wig work for this movie! My first concept was they were two different people. So I was thinking, looking from an acting point of view, that I was gonna make them very different. In vocal pattern, the way they moved, their laughs, and all that. So that was sort of exciting to me. But then David said: "No no no, they're the same person!". So then you have to cross a reality border cause you can't be really the same person and one of them die...'
"I think it's about a man trying to recreate a relationship with the woman he loves so that it ends up better. Fred recreates himself as Pete, but the element of distrust in him is so strong that even his fantasy turns into a nightmare."
"It's straight out scary. It's very dark. It's not for kids or for people who want some light fair."
"One of my characters is this man's wife, who's always sort of afar, and there's always this...the divorce word is always between them but they never say it. The more he needs her sex, the less she gives him. The more he needs her love, the less she has for him. It's a sort of dead relationship, this cold, adversarily relationship. He kills her and then he recreates himself as this young veral guy and has this girlfriend who needs him and wants to sleep with him and loves him and wants him to save her. But his whole fantasy again turns to shit because he's just a sick man."
"You feel David in his movies. It's another Universe he takes you to. It's like an alternate reality, close enough to our own to be really distrubing."
Impressive, most impressive. A very insightful & useful site that I'm sure will help many people to better appreciate the brilliance of David Lynch's movies.
Hello from Poland, I must say I really enjoyed your site. I am fascinated with "Lost Highway". Your interpretation impressed me very much and made the film much clearer for me. Thanks!!! Bye, Kinja.
Hi,
I was just reading your excellent lost highway page, very very good--brilliant actually.
In the movie Fred was not sexually adequate, we see Renee pat him on the back and tell him it is okay when he cannot fulfill his and his wifes sexual desires.
You said the character Dick Laurant stands between Fred and his wife, so--pardon the crude parallel--his "dick" was standing in the way of his marriage and his true love.
Fred's sexual inadequacy plagues him, that's why when he reinvents himself as Peter he makes Peter an excellent and virile lover--who has no sexual inadequacies.
About the mystery man. Yes he is the evil side of Fred. And Lynch has him be at the party and at the house at the same time, to show that evilness is everywhere and it follows Fred around. This was the only character symbol I figured out on my own. He was pretty obviously a representation of evil.
I better stop now because I could write for hours about Lynch, especially Mulholland Drive. I saw Lost Highway a while back and thought it was stylish but empty. So after I saw the great depth of Mulholland I decided to give LH another chance and I'm sure glad I did.
Thanks for the informative site Trevor
ur lost explaination is right on man , when i saw this movie in the theater people around me didnt get the movie but i did,the FIRST time around like i usually do with his movies.Im glad u got lost highway ,because so many cant grasp david lynchs mind they just think his movies are "cool".
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Thanks for the informative and well thought out site on this amazing movie. As much as I thought I understood the movie before, your site has brought new facts and interpretations out and makes me want to watch it yet again! Good work.
This is the best analysis of Lost Highway that I have seen yet. I had many analysis of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, but I always found Lost Highway very daunting. The difficulty that I had with my analyses with LH seemed to be resolved by your premise that Dick Laurant and Mr. Eddy was both a symbol of Fred's Fear AS WELL AS a real person that Renee cheated on him with. I always thought it strange that he had two names... and I noted the dualistic nature of that... but I found it hard to connect it to the plot of the movie. Kudos! I'd like to see your unravelling of Mulholland Drive... I believe that I have it to a philosophy now... but your perspective is so incisive, I am curious of your opinions.
-Brett Wood
Phew...thank god for this site...
I would have never known what that was all about!
Thanks Jason
Claire Wellington New Zealand
nice work, but a little too sure of yourself? perhaps. Rolling Stone magazine interviewed David Lynch soon after the release of TLH, he was asked what the film was actually about, his reply was "I'm not entirely sure myself"....just a passing thought :-)
GREAT Analysis Jason! Let's see u do the same thing with Mulholland Drive! - Todd M.
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hey jason,
thanks a lot for providing this excellent explanation of the movie. i saw the movie when it originally came out, and was totally clueless. i saw it again last night, thinking that this time i would understand it more, but again, not much more luck. i appreciate you taking the time to make this website, as without it, i would be left confused and unsatisfied with this obviously genius movie.
later,
chris
In keeping with your 'symbolism, represented in characters', a point you made about Dick Laurant being Fred's fear and hesitation to admit that he's done something wrong, his being a sort of barrier, like you said...well, this fits nicely with the fact that Fred hears this "Dick Laurant is dead..." coming from his intercom. Who knows how long he's had trouble with Renee or pondered awful things, but after hearing that, he soon kills her, i.e. his barrier was temporarily gone, as if 'Your Hesitation and Fear is Dead'. And he endulges in his temptations. You know what I mean? And at the end when he says it, after doing the deed himself, of course, it was like that part of him completely disappearing - and who knows what he'd have allowed himself to believe or do if he wasn't imprisoned, since his conscience would be gone and he'd have free reign of his horrible thoughts and actions.
Also, I had the thought that at the very end when he appears to be shifting yet again, since this particular time is shown rather graphically and violently, what if in 'actual reality' (a place Fred has far since removed himself from) he is finally being electrocuted during that moment. He was sentenced to die that way, so maybe... Just a possible thought, as is most else dealing with this baby.
I did think your entire site was right on in terms of how I feel about the flick as well. Great movie. David Lynch has a differnt way of telling stories. What they're about isn't as weird as people think, it's the way he crafts and tells them to us. I think it's great and wonder why there isn't more filmmakers even remotely similar. I also think Mulholland Drive was a step up from Lost Highway, using similar storytelling devices to greater effect. (That's my personal opinion, of course.)
Thanks for the website.
Jeremy
Renee and Alice are clearly the same person. Alice is Fred's imagined version of Renee. You see this when they look at the photo at Andy's house and he says "Are they both you?" When the detectives are there later, only Renee is in the picture.
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Good work. As much as I thought I understood the movie before, your site makes me see it in a new light! Thanks for the website on this amazing movie. http://www.decidio.com
Perhaps I missed it, but I feel the Mystery Man phone call is quite important and not in your analysis. Keeping in mind that MM=Fear (or other negative emotions) and that he is 'at Fred's house at the same time' (the house obviously a place where many negative emotions stir) but seems to have followed him to this party.
I just saw The Lost Highway today. I thought it was a really brilliant work, but was unable to (as I'm sure many are!) completely understand some of the situations. After reading through the pages contained here on your website, some light was shed on many aspects of the entire movie. I now have a better understanding of it, and am also, I feel, "better equipped" with the information to ponder other possibilities I come up with. My opinion that it is a brilliant movie hasn't changed (if anything, it has gotten stronger!), and I want to see the movie again more than ever! I am glad that you put the effort into creating this site. It was great, thanks!
I must give you kudos for all the work you've obviously put into this site. I've never gotten a satisfactory explanation for Lost Highway, which by the way, I've seen at least 8 times; it always seemed like an inexplicable David Lynchism. Perhaps not. Thanks for the insight.
i just wanted to say thanks. i was turned on this movie by a customer( i work at blockbuster). watched it and it fucking drove me crazy. i loved it and watched it 3 times in one night but could still not understand all. i read your page it made me really understand it and made me really appreciate it and decided to add it to my movie collection. thanks kyle young
i've been working on a project which is about cinema and so i chose to create something new as well as to choose David lYnsch and his filmography..what about the other interpretations in other films like blue velvet or mulholland drive?
Hi Jason, I thought using your license was cute...cute picture : ) I enjoyed your page!
Sheila
Hi Jason, I thought using your license was cute...cute picture : ) I enjoyed your page!
Sheila
Lost Highway is now an opera in Graz Aurtria
hi first i need to say sorry for my english it's not very good... i'm a designer's student and i'm making a work for a class and i've to talk about the lost highway and hermeneutic i don't no if's that correctely in english but it's very complicated and i need help if is there somewhere who can help me i let my email: daniela_castrofba@hotmail.com thank you to anybody
ti si u svakom slucaju ulozio mnogo truda, vise nego iko do sada verovatno i posluzio si mnogima koji zele biti jako najbolji od svih, kao inspiracija i nadahnuce. Sincerely, mr. Samardzic Stefan (stefan32@eunet.yu)
this is probably the best analysis i've ever seen of this movie... i thought it was about a guy stuck in hell (but he's in the real world) .. i guess i was kind of right but i like your interpretation a lot better
Thanks for taking the time to create this site. I found your thoughts and ideas to be very insightful.
A few comments:
About the connection between the Mystery Man and Alice - I like to view these characters in a more spiritual context. To me Alice represents sin (in all ways). You mention the word temptation several times and I think that is very true. She seems to represent the tempting parts of Renee, his own temptations (violence), etc. The Mystery Man to me represents the Devil. He is the ultimate form of all the bad elements of Fred. If that were true then the connection with the MM and Alice is easy to see. Sin is a tool used by the ultimate sinner - the Devil. They are forever linked. it would also explain his appearance and his comment about not going where he isnt invited. His camera is like a reminder to Fred that this is who you are - you are a sinner and you killed your wife!
On the Lost Highway Hotel - I agree 100% with you. This to me represents all the possible alternate realities that Fred can choose. As his primary alternate begins to unravel he realizes he needs another one. The hotel rooms are his options. I think the room with Dick and Alice (Renee) represents how fragile Fred's mind has become. As he searches for a place to hide in his mind, the truth continues to bleed out.
As with all Lynch material it is open to many interpretations. Thanks again!
Your interpretation of Lost Highway is very interesting, and I must note that it is your interpretation. It all makes sense for the most part, but there are still a few things that are not explained on the smallest level. I have my own interpretation of the film, and so does David Lynch. I am pretty sure that he is not too happy that so many people are disecting his film and putting it all over the net. I think that he wanted this film to be something that a person experiences and interprets for themselves. I know that is one of my films was interpreted and disected, and made known to the public on the net I would be pretty pissed off. I will say that it is a free country and you can do whatever the hell you want, so I will say no more. Gabriel
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your website kicks ASS. i totally agree with your explanation. that's exactly how i saw it, except you pointed out a few wicked details.
especially the blood in the bedroom in the FIRST scene! how could i miss that?!
hey it is me mike i didn't realize what an amazing website you had until now definitly keep it up also i love the music u put on the site also turn ur webcam on to see hollywood please call u later cya
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This was a great site, I just watched the movie, and like David's other movies, it was wondering what was going on. After seeing a number of his movies you are able to understand him a bit more. This movie was similar to Mulholland Dr in that respect. I really enjoy his work but you have to do some detective work to figure out what he is up to. Thanks to this site I could read other people's detective work! Thanks!
Excellent analysis Jason. I think this is about as comprehensive as you can get. Just a few other suggestions. 'Dick Laurent is dead' is important for 2 main reasons. 1. It gives the deranged Madison an alternative reality and resolution for why he is on the run. 2. On a more symbolic level, only when Dick laurent is dead can Madison even begin to face up to what he has done. I feel Laurent is a kind of Oedipal authority figure in Madison's psyche trying to prevent him from doing the wrong thing.The exaggerated response to the tail gater sets him up as an extreme protector of right and wrong. However, I sometimes interpret Laurent differently. Perhaps he represents the actual external agression and hatred in Madison. When he beats up the tail gater, note the excellent juxtaposition of Laurent's agression against Dayton's abhorrence. Of course, Dayton/Madison is desperately trying to disassociate himself from the murder he has committed and so is repelled by the very agression he is trying to escape. As his mind fragments, he is disassociating with the act of murder more and more. Also, when they are driving in the car, Laurent says, close up to the camera 'you did a great job Pete. Ostensibly, he is referring to Pete's mechanical work, but I feel Laurent's dialogue works on a deeper level. 'iF YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM i CAN FIX IT LIKE THAT. Lynch also pulls off this trick in Mulholland drive. By this logic then, 'Dick Laurent is dead' represents an elegy to that part of Madison's character he could not control. He personnifies his aggression and fantasises that he destroys it, but alas he could not and killed his wife.Remember he says to the mystery man-'you and me mister-we can really out ugly those'. The three of them together -the mm is the internal emotions-madison is there-and Laurent is the externalisation of the emotions symbolised by the mm. I felt this scene was very reminiscent of the end of Franz Kafka's The Trial.Two men are passing a knife over k's head in a deserted area and k has to reach for the knife. Also, note the fantastical way that Laurent exits from the boot of the car. He explodes out of the car like an explosion of anger.This could not have literally taken place. But the one thing I struggle with is the compliance of the MM at the end. Earlier throughout the film Dick Laurent and the mm are said to be friends, but at the end it is the mm who kills dl. Obviously, both only exist on a symbolic/existentialist platform, but it would seem that any contention that the mm represents objective TRUTH is too simplistic. You could argue that the MM is seen in a more favourable light the more Madison accepts the aggression inside of him, but he still at this point has not faced up to the fact that he has killed his wife. To clarify, the MM seems hell bent on not letting Madison run away from what he has done FOR MOST OF THE MOVIE. Yet at the end he is participating in the fantasy killing of Dick Laurent. The only thing I can think is that the MM, as Madison's conscience,is resourceful and realises that the only possible way back to truth is to humour Madison in his fantasy and resolve his deluded fantasy-ie Madison has completed his circle. dEEP DOWN mADISON KNOWS TIME IS RUNNING OUT, and so does the MM Infact if you listen carefully at the end of the preceding scene, when the cops are at Andy's dusting for prints, you can hear the cop cars coming for Madison-the same sirens you hear at the start of the film. Time is running out for Madison to resolve his delusional plot, as in literal time he is either about to be excecuted or caught by the police(depending on how you interpret the chronology of the film). When the mystery man whispers in Madison's ear, he is probably telling him to go back home and say DL IS DEAD
Your analysis of Lost Highway was more or less the same as my interpretation. Although I saw Mistery Man as pure vengence and the killing of Dick a part of reality. He and Andy made the porn that Freds wife starred in. The last scene is Fred getting fried, there's smoke and everything. Great site. FILTHPIG
great review. has it all. viva la film
Thank you for spending your time and making this site!!! I love this movie and reading all the work you have put into your project made me appericate the movie more. ericosbo@yahoo.ca
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Jason, I've seen Lost Highway at least 5 times(right there it tells you something). Looking at it from the point of view you present makes alot of sense. Thank you for the enlightenment. It's a good movie even when I didn't understand it, but now it's 100x better. Have you thought of doing the same with Lynch's other movies, beginning with Eraserhead? Marion
You have very well elaborated the film,the page is good There are, of course, certain things that you didn't mention - and no one can actually do that- with a Lynch movie this proves to be more than true cool page all the best 4282
Good explanation, cheers. Just one thing though, change the dark blue font you use on some headings, its tricky to read. Laters, Baino
Thank you! I saw lost highway when it came out and mistakenly took my then girlfriend and her three girl friends. They all hated. I instantly fell in love. I was not a huge Lynch fan at the time. I saw the movie twice in the theaters and then bought it when it came out on video. So i have seen now about 10 times. After reading this here website i am going to watch it again tonight. Lynch always seems to envoke a feeling from me that no other director can do. I love all his movies and this one is second only to Mulholland Dr. Thanks for all your detailed writings. I am going to look for the syumbolism and meaning more now. ryan
A lot of people have said that they thought Dick Laurant wasn't actually a real person, he was only a symbol in the movie. I kind of disagree with that. I think there are a select few scenes in this movie that are actually real...I think many of hte initial scenes are real: playing jazz in the club, smoking the cigar on the bed, I also think that the jail scenes were all real (that is, before he changed to pete), other than that, I think that the next real scene is when he enters the lost highway hotel and sees Renee and Dick Laurant having sex. ((This is just my opinion)), and I also think that the picture of Andy, Renee, and Dick Laurant is real. I think that in reality Dick Laurant was a real guy, that although Fred may not have actually seen them together, he knew that they were having some sort of relationship, and probably stumbled upon some incriminating evidence such as the picture. I think Andy and Renee didn't have much of a relationship, just the fact that he introduced her to the business and probably got her some connections. But anyways yes I think Dick Laurant was real, and Fred very possibly did kill him. He killed him and then was already dealing with the intense emotions from that, but it was so recent that many people didn't know about yet. Then at the party with Renee and Andy, Renee comes up to Fred and says "who's dead?" I think she is suspicious that Fred may have found out and is now worried, not knowing yet for sure. Then obviously, Fred kills Renee and enters the dream state. I think that Alice is less of a "temptation to kill his wife" and more of simply him trying to create a better life for himself. Initially Alice is the perfect girl, mysterious, fun, passionate, probably the way that Fred and Renee's marriage may have been like at the beginning. As he gets to know Alice more and more, he soon finds the same defects with her as he did with Renee, because he is mixing his dream state with reality, he can't get away from what he did. What I think is one of the most important connections in the movie is the sex scene with Renee and Fred in the beginning, where Renee consoles Fred like a child and Fred feels completely dominated, and the scene at the end where Alice says "you'll never have him" Fred (pete) initially has some control over their relationship, when he is in the dream, but reality is turning Alice back into Renee and he is once again dominated. During the end scene she climbs on top of him, and he suddenly seems like a lost child yelling "i want you! I want you", she completely denies him at that point, and in that moment Fred realizes that she is Renee, and that he hasn't gotten away from what he did, it's still there. For that reason when he stands up Pete transforms back into Fred, and the truth (MM) comes out of the cabin.
You have some very interesting ideas about Lost Highway, however, your utter lack of proof-reading is ridiculous. You have an incredible amount of spelling and grammatical errors, not to mention some sloppy HTML to boot. Some of your conclusions about the movie, also, are a bit off. In a few cases, you seem to stop just short of a stronger conclusion better supported by the evidence. In other cases, you miss the mark entirely. But, to reiterate, you've done a better than average job interpreting the film. The webpage, style, and grammar lower your overall grade quite notably, I'm afraid.
Hi jason, just like to congratulate you on an excellent site dedidcated to one of the best movies ever. Really good to get someone elses take on the film (not too far away from my own ideas and explanations). You have no idea how many people I have shown this film and they have said "What the hell was that all about?" I actually had to watch it 4 or 5 times before I had a rough idea what was going on. Thanks again for a great website!! Cheers, James.
Thanks. I needed some help with this one. having just seen the film yesterday, I think there is a good chance that his fantasy idenity does relate to an his actual past with his wife. I think Mullhuland drive is a more sucessful attempt at similar story telling, less confusing and more enjoyable to watch -and a less trendy (and now dated) sound track
I like your page very much. I agree with most if not all of our ideas, but there is one part of the movie that still has me stuck. Towards the end when the police are at Andy's house investigating, we see the picture with only three people, insinuating that this is reality. Why then does one of the detectives say "We have copies of prints from Pete Dayton" This throws a lot of theories out of whack. I read an interview with David Lynch who said that this movie was similar to Twin Peaks, possibly meaning that there are different worlds or universes. Just trying to help keep everyone confused :)
I just like to come here periodically to see if you've added something. Truly insightful what you've done here with Lost Highway. What about some of the other movies by Lynch? Have you tried your hand at any of those? Say, maybe Eraserhead?
Really fascinating. You have strong and through interpertations of Lynch's work and you back it up really well. Can't say I agree with everything you said but it was well presented I thought.
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HI Jason, Well i have to tell you , the song Everybody's free to wear sunscreen I heard a many years ago and i said to myself , i never want to forget this song and of course i did, so THANKS for the reminder. The messages of that song still holds true to me, even after all these years of not hearing it. Dennis O.
great jason, really great job on linch' "lost highway. as a matter of fact, the "trouble-free" background music on peter's back yard, isn't so free of trouble since the words for it would say (waht we hear on the film is an instrumental version): "now she's gone away, and i'm alone with the memories of her last look". best from carlos
When Fred went to the party he could have seen the picture where Renee is with the guys, and then put that face to the gangster character.
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Nice Site!! Stumbled across it whilst trying to find a site I viewed a year ago, which offered possibly the finest explanation of Lost Highway I have ever seen. And I still can't find it (although it did have a black background like yours!). That was after viewing the film for the second time and being just as confused as I was 18 months before having seen it for the first time!! Your site offers many of the ideas that I remember reading and is pretty much consistent with my holy grail, but leaves just enough blanks to help perpetuate the mystery. However I see that as part of the brilliance of the film, being able to glimpse the answer tying up all the loose ends, but never being able to find it again! So I am trapped in my own Lost Highway, and the only way I'll be able to solve the enigma is to come up the answers myself. No quick fix to this film. Its funny though, like with all Lynch's best work, you feel you know whats going on, you subconciously know the answers, but it never gets further than the tip of your tongue! Anyway, good site, good to hear "I'm Deranged", it's enough to send me to the DVD player!! So my sixth viewing of Lost Highway (happening in 5 minutes) is down to your site! ...probably my fave film (after the Goonies-I want to be 7 forever!)... James Geraghty
Hi, I am teaching a film class and we are watching David Lynch's Lost Highway, after studying Surrealism, Film Noir and German Expressionism. I found your web page explanation of the film really great and have told all my students to access it...its unfortunate that you such a chauvenist, and I wondered how such an intelligent man could include such a stupid portrayal of woman in his site...or is stupidity the new cool? Oh I forgot, you live in California, U.S.A.!!! Since you are attracting so many students I wondered if you would consider rethinking your juvenile portrayal of girls and try to not to wear your heart on your sleave so much! Believe me, a boy can be as mean as a girl, and definately extort money a lot more than woman do...lets be fair shall we and say that there is good and bad in both genders.... Amused at your disply Femme
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Thanks so much for the explainations you give in your site! I just watched the film for the 3rd time and find my ideas absolutely clarified with your expertise. Thanks for that! I also wanted to add that I believe it was intended that Bill Pullman was to be making love with his *dead wife* near the beginning--that's why she is portrayed as unresponsive (because in his warped mind, she's very much 'alive').. He's mortified at the end because he realizes momentarily that he just.. Wow. Intense! Lynch is amazing.. and I bet he's proud of your dedication! Blessed Be, ~Raven~ Missoula, MT (where Twin Peaks was based off of) crestfallenraven@hotmail.com PS, feel free to use this interpretation in your website! Post away :)
Just finished watching "Lost Highway" again. I had only seen it a few times. I put a "hit" out on it on dvd to my friends. And just gazing through a music store today, I found it. Made my day. I was hoping that there would be some extras on there to perhaps explain what the hell i was tryin to figure out...but, no dice. That's just fine with me, cause your site really helped me put some things together. I first saw the movie by chance in high school(i think it was about '97 my sophomore year) at a video rental place and I saw it was a David Lynch film so I decided to check it out. I couldnt believe i did this seeing that watchin Twin Peaks at a younger age really gave me trouble sleeping. But even through all those nightmares, I was fixed to the television every week. Since then, I have gone on to see other Lynch movies and have purchased Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and I will soon be purchasing the Twin Peaks series on DVD. Back to Lost Highway...I was hoping that since my last viewing was 8 years ago that I would be able to put some more of the plot together. Boy was I wrong. The main thing that jumped out at me this time was that I was really compelled by pete. If lynch portrayed him as a total opposite to fred(in the sense that he was more submissive than fred [i hope that reads as what I am thinking, also to your references on the website] then it was perfect. I saw myself feeling sorry for pete. It was almost like he didnt have too much control of what was going on around him. Sure, alice had to push him, but not that much. He was almost at her disposal...killing andy...going to the cabin. He knew right away that talkin to Mr. Eddies girl was trouble, but he gave in to her advances...Just another thought. I know it is not even in the same ballpark as your observations, but now that I have the dvd, i will be watching this movie religiously. I hope you still check this site and respond to the guestbook. Once again thanks for the great site and even better insight. Chief Illiniwek diamondkingcc2@hotmail.com
Just finished watching "Lost Highway" again. I had only seen it a few times. I put a "hit" out on it on dvd to my friends. And just gazing through a music store today, I found it. Made my day. I was hoping that there would be some extras on there to perhaps explain what the hell i was tryin to figure out...but, no dice. That's just fine with me, cause your site really helped me put some things together. I first saw the movie by chance in high school(i think it was about '97 my sophomore year) at a video rental place and I saw it was a David Lynch film so I decided to check it out. I couldnt believe i did this seeing that watchin Twin Peaks at a younger age really gave me trouble sleeping. But even through all those nightmares, I was fixed to the television every week. Since then, I have gone on to see other Lynch movies and have purchased Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and I will soon be purchasing the Twin Peaks series on DVD. Back to Lost Highway...I was hoping that since my last viewing was 8 years ago that I would be able to put some more of the plot together. Boy was I wrong. The main thing that jumped out at me this time was that I was really compelled by pete. If lynch portrayed him as a total opposite to fred(in the sense that he was more submissive than fred [i hope that reads as what I am thinking, also to your references on the website] then it was perfect. I saw myself feeling sorry for pete. It was almost like he didnt have too much control of what was going on around him. Sure, alice had to push him, but not that much. He was almost at her disposal...killing andy...going to the cabin. He knew right away that talkin to Mr. Eddies girl was trouble, but he gave in to her advances...Just another thought. I know it is not even in the same ballpark as your observations, but now that I have the dvd, i will be watching this movie religiously. I hope you still check this site and respond to the guestbook. Once again thanks for the great site and even better insight. Chief Illiniwek
Just finished watching "Lost Highway" again. I had only seen it a few times. I put a "hit" out on it on dvd to my friends. And just gazing through a music store today, I found it. Made my day. I was hoping that there would be some extras on there to perhaps explain what the hell i was tryin to figure out...but, no dice. That's just fine with me, cause your site really helped me put some things together. I first saw the movie by chance in high school(i think it was about '97 my sophomore year) at a video rental place and I saw it was a David Lynch film so I decided to check it out. I couldnt believe i did this seeing that watchin Twin Peaks at a younger age really gave me trouble sleeping. But even through all those nightmares, I was fixed to the television every week. Since then, I have gone on to see other Lynch movies and have purchased Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and I will soon be purchasing the Twin Peaks series on DVD. Back to Lost Highway...I was hoping that since my last viewing was 8 years ago that I would be able to put some more of the plot together. Boy was I wrong. The main thing that jumped out at me this time was that I was really compelled by pete. If lynch portrayed him as a total opposite to fred(in the sense that he was more submissive than fred [i hope that reads as what I am thinking, also to your references on the website] then it was perfect. I saw myself feeling sorry for pete. It was almost like he didnt have too much control of what was going on around him. Sure, alice had to push him, but not that much. He was almost at her disposal...killing andy...going to the cabin. He knew right away that talkin to Mr. Eddies girl was trouble, but he gave in to her advances...Just another thought. I know it is not even in the same ballpark as your observations, but now that I have the dvd, i will be watching this movie religiously. I hope you still check this site and respond to the guestbook. Once again thanks for the great site and even better insight. Chief Illiniwek
Just finished watching "Lost Highway" again. I had only seen it a few times. I put a "hit" out on it on dvd to my friends. And just gazing through a music store today, I found it. Made my day. I was hoping that there would be some extras on there to perhaps explain what the hell i was tryin to figure out...but, no dice. That's just fine with me, cause your site really helped me put some things together. I first saw the movie by chance in high school(i think it was about '97 my sophomore year) at a video rental place and I saw it was a David Lynch film so I decided to check it out. I couldnt believe i did this seeing that watchin Twin Peaks at a younger age really gave me trouble sleeping. But even through all those nightmares, I was fixed to the television every week. Since then, I have gone on to see other Lynch movies and have purchased Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and I will soon be purchasing the Twin Peaks series on DVD. Back to Lost Highway...I was hoping that since my last viewing was 8 years ago that I would be able to put some more of the plot together. Boy was I wrong. The main thing that jumped out at me this time was that I was really compelled by pete. If lynch portrayed him as a total opposite to fred(in the sense that he was more submissive than fred [i hope that reads as what I am thinking, also to your references on the website] then it was perfect. I saw myself feeling sorry for pete. It was almost like he didnt have too much control of what was going on around him. Sure, alice had to push him, but not that much. He was almost at her disposal...killing andy...going to the cabin. He knew right away that talkin to Mr. Eddies girl was trouble, but he gave in to her advances...Just another thought. I know it is not even in the same ballpark as your observations, but now that I have the dvd, i will be watching this movie religiously. I hope you still check this site and respond to the guestbook. Once again thanks for the great site and even better insight. Chief Illiniwek
Just finished wathing Lost Highway for maybe the 7th time. It is just great and afterwards I had to search the internet for answers. Among the sites I visited this one is the absolute best! I think you figured out most things really good and I agree with almost everything except mabye the thing about Freds "evil nature" and some other small things. However this is a great site!
I think that altoguh the film can be interpreted in both ways, it is more probable that Fred's life is a dream/vision of Pete, and not the other way. (I know that Barry Gifford, co-writer of the film, says the oposite than me, but also that David Lynch didn't "entierly" agreed with this interpretation.) Just consider that while Fred's world is full of impossible things (physically impossible things), there is not such thing in Pete's world at all, except maybe the vision about the room 26, but even then, it was clearly shown that Pete has some kind of brain-attak at those moments. You can say that Fred's world is full of impossible things because Fred is mad and you see the things like he perceives them, that OK, but then how is that in his "dream" (Pete's world) has no such things? After all, everything you preceive in a dream is what you think... there are no obstacles like physical reality, so a dream should be even more strange, especially the dream of a crazy man like Fred. And if you can clear you mind and re-interprete the film this way, I guess it is much more explainable. For example, I seems that in the reality (Pete) there was both Alice and Renee (twins)... you remeber that photo in Pete's world? And that Pete has killed Renee, but it was so shocking for him the he has felt into amnesia (and in his memory flash-back we can see Renee's cropse, even if blurly -- exactly the same cropse as in the video tape). You remember how shocking was for him to face Renee's photo in Andy's house? And Mistical Man, was the man who was there at the house (Pete's fater has seen a man who he didn't know, "that nigh"), and who know what happened. So he has seens what hapened, he knows that, so Pete can't escape into his amnesia. That is what the MM's video camera in the dream. And, BTW, not that nobody said why was pete in the prison when their parents went for him... don't connect it directly with the transformation in the cell. Maybe he was just arrested for a while after "that night" (later Pete's feater says: "The police called us. They want to know if we had a chance to find out what happened to you the other night."... Who said he is talking about the "transformation"?). Etc.
Between this movie and Mullholland Drive I have wasted (a word I use hesitantly) a few days of my life only to come to the conclusion that my thoughts and insights are nothing more than my own and do not represent any absolute truth. I have talked w/ many others and realize that Lynch is Lynch because his movies are wide open to many differnt opinions and much speculation. That being said, thanks for posting your interpretation of the film. It was interesting and I have taken different points from it just as I have from those with varying different opinions. David Lynch is a great director because of his ability to have such different and equally correct responses to his movies!!!
thanks alot. this site helped to clear up many confusing thoughts swimming around in my head. It seems so logical, if you can accept the words logical and david lynch in the same sentence. keep on trucking!
I have only seen it once--3 days ago, so i don't feel qualified to say too much. My first observation was that I have outgrown Lynch, and that he is not the genius I once thought. My second thought is that dissecting in order to understand films (and other art) sometimes destroys the magic. But I guess I will see it again to just be swept along in the sound and visuals. Not everything has to mean something or represent something.
Good job for Lost Highways!!! spher@writeme.com
THANKS FOR SPENDING ALL THAT TIME TO FIGURE OUT THE MOVIE LOST HIGHWAY, HOW ABOUT EXPLAINING MULLHOLLAND DRIVE NEXT. REGARDS, MIKE
Great site, it explains a lot. Know I will hopefully understand the movie better. Although a Lynch movie never can be really completly understood, imho.
Great job on the site. Unfortunately moviegoers nowadays place too much stock in the plot/storyline of a film. While this is important to the overall entertainment value it can sometimes detract from the artistic value. Such is the case with Lost Highway. Most people I talk to disregard the film entirely because they don't understand the plot. Lost Highway is the greatest film ever made because of its cinematography. It is a masterpiece, actually THE masterpiece of American Cinema. There are scenes in the film that bring tears to my eyes because of their undeniable beauty. Because of the immediate money that can be made from the production of a film, most artists are compromised(either by themselves or by outside influences)in their efforts in creating a film. And because it is such a young medium, Cinema does not get even half the respect that painting, sculpting, etc. gets. Lynch transcends these boundaries though. I am sure he is compromised from time to time but his final product is always worthy of the highest merit. He is the Dali/Picasso/Da Vinci of Cinema. Anyway, loved the site, maybe add something in regards to the brilliant cinematography, and keep praising his Royal Majesty David Lynch.
Sorry, I forgot to post my email. I'm the Lynch/God/Cinematography guy from San Diego.
Very nicely done. This film has always troubled me in that I was never able to logically pull it together (Fred becoming Peter in the jail-cell for example). However, once I read Lynch say that Fred was/had psychogenic fugue things started becoming clearer with your website adding the capper. Thanks for taking the time to think this through and sharing it with everyone else. BK
I REALLY enjoyed your explanation of Lost Highway, and needed it soooooooooooooo much!!! I just purchased the DVD and now will watch it again. At first I thought you must be a much-practiced psychologist! After seeing the rest on your page and seeing that you're adept in many fields (not especially psychology), I realize you're just a genius! Haha! Thanks so much for the entertaining site AND your thoughts on Lost Highway.
nice analysis. perhaps a little too much symbolism (on the part of everything symbolizing something in fred's fantasy world). i think even david lynch had he seen this page might have said, "where the hell did this kid get these ideas from?... but they're good."
hi.man this is great my search about the film "Lost Highway" would ending. your site is very good man a lot of thanx for you and your friends..
Great job on your Lost Highway website. It is one of my favorite films, and your website has given me new insight. I have seen the film over 50 times, and you have made it even better to view. Of course after checking out your site in full, I had to watch Lost Highway again, and once I did, WOW! What a cool experience. Thank you for your cool angles on this film, and thanks for sharing them.
Hello, I stumbled across this whilst on a quest to listen to some of my favourite trance essential mixes from 1998/9 so thanks for the stream, i did tape them at the time but can't find the tapes now. I'm not sure what that lost highway thing is about.......? is there anything else apart from that gloomy highway image and the man laghing in a spooky manner?. I like your photo's, il be doing photography next year i think. Thanks then i might be back. Natalie:-)
Oh it's somthing to do with the film lost highway, still can get past that man laghing though oh well. Really nice streams it was Paul Oakenfold in particular i was looking for but the others are very nice to listen to aswell, really impressive site by the way. All the best, cheers.
nice page, and it's nice to see someone as dedicated to Lynch as myself.
would you happen to know who sings the song from the part of the movie where the blond character is humping the young guy/main character old dude in front of the car on the gravel and she is saying you will never have me....the song is not on the sound track PLEASE HELP!!!!
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would you happen to know who sings the song from the part of the movie where the blond character is humping the young guy/main character old dude in front of the car on the gravel and she is saying you will never have me....the song is not on the sound track PLEASE HELP!!!!PS
would you happen to know who sings the song from the part of the movie(desert scene) where the patricia arquette is humping the young guy/main character old dude in front of the car on the gravel and she is saying you will never have me....the song is not on the sound track PLEASE HELP!!!!PS the song is also only on the trailer of the texas chain saw masacre
Hello Jason. Nice work on analysing LH. One doesn't have to agree with you, but at least you make sense, and few people do when it comes to that film. However, I think you dismiss the "Pete being a younger Fred" theory too drasticly. It could be that Pete, although he most definitely is an "alternative" Fred, is (at least physically) inspired by his younger self. Or maybe Fred felt that to change his fate in the alternate reality he's trying to build in his mind, he had to go further away in his past. It always seemed to me that the Pete part of the movie look more 70's than the Fred part, where everything looks 90's - except the music, but during the scene at the dance with Sheila, it seems obvious that the music people are dancing to is not the one we hear! How about Dick Laurent's initials being the same as Lynch's... What do you make of that? Anyway, bravo for your site.
Hello Jason. Nice work on analysing LH. One doesn't have to agree with you, but at least you make sense, and few people do when it comes to that film. However, I think you dismiss the "Pete being a younger Fred" theory too drasticly. It could be that Pete, although he most definitely is an "alternative" Fred, is (at least physically) inspired by his younger self. Or maybe Fred felt that to change his fate in the alternate reality he's trying to build in his mind, he had to go further away in his past. It always seemed to me that the Pete part of the movie look more 70's than the Fred part, where everything looks 90's - except the music, but during the scene at the dance with Sheila, it seems obvious that the music people are dancing to is not the one we hear! How about Dick Laurent's initials being the same as Lynch's... What do you make of that? Anyway, bravo for your site.
Hello Jason. Nice work on analysing LH. One doesn't have to agree with you, but at least you make sense, and few people do when it comes to that film. However, I think you dismiss the "Pete being a younger Fred" theory too drasticly. It could be that Pete, although he most definitely is an "alternative" Fred, is (at least physically) inspired by his younger self. Or maybe Fred felt that to change his fate in the alternate reality he's trying to build in his mind, he had to go further away in his past. It always seemed to me that the Pete part of the movie look more 70's than the Fred part, where everything looks 90's - except the music, but during the scene at the dance with Sheila, it seems obvious that the music people are dancing to is not the one we hear! How about Dick Laurent's initials being the same as Lynch's... What do you make of that? Anyway, bravo for your site.
Just thought i'd say thanks a lot for some good insights. saw the film for the first time last night and couldn't stop trying to figure it out. decided i needed some help - that's where your website came in. i know i definitely need to see it again...soon! and get the soundtrack.
can there be a possiblity that he did kill his wife and that his doe