notes on David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY

 

How the hell does David Lynch get away with transmigration of souls as the core theme? True, he dresses it up in LA caper mode/ “moll” and leather coats and toughs and guns and porn, and all the trappings of classic B thrillers, but at the core there’s this “demon” guy (Robert Blake before he murdered someone in real life)… who orchestrates the identity switch

For what purpose?

 

There seems to be something important about the porn movie featuring Marilyn Manson. It seems to imply it’s a snuff film.. If so, why so unclear about it? If it is a snuff film where someone is really killed, would that be enough to call forth the Blake demon?

And the two gals Patricia Arquette plays… Alice and Renee… are they demonic or possessed (twined, doubled) for some karmic retribution…

If the theme is about retribution… (i know ,I know i’m trying to “make sense” of it).. What did Bill Pullman’s character do “wrong” to get pulled (ha ha pun) into this? Did he inadvertently get involved with an evil two-hearted (two “identitied”) woman? Yes, Renee has an affair and Bill Pullman kills her for it, but in the future after he’s been through the adventure of being someone else for a while. How does he even remember she is his wife?

But actually Pullman doesn’t kill the Laurent character outright. He kidnaps him and it’s the Blake demon who shoots him. Did Laurent (Loggia) do something in a previous life to piss off the Blake demon? And why do demons need guns?

Unlike Pullman’s characters (played by two different actors) Robert Loggia plays two different guys who look and act alike– Frank Laurent and Mr Eddy. In Bill Pullman’s world heh is is Laurent but in Pete Dayton’s world (the car mechanic) he’s Mr Eddy… In both worlds he’s a creepy guy that (possibly) deserves to die…

Bill Pullman is arrested for killing his wife… (which apparently he did commit… though can’t seem to access why at the time he’s arrested). In prison he’s “stolen” by the demon and put into the Dayton character. Now a mechanic instead of a sax player he gets pulled into evil blond Arquette’s (Alice’s) plan involving freedom and betrayal.

Did renee do something that deserved death other than having the affair?

Surely alice is a piece of woik… a mol.. nasty…and perhaps a succubus demon just traveling around with Robert Blake demon using transmigratory worm holes to play games with people. If so are the demons (really the stars of the film) having fun?

Note on the music: I have to say it has alot of music i really like — Bowie, Lou Reed, Rammstein…

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