Lost Highway

Kino of the highest order

1)inland empire 10/10
2)eraserhead 9/10
3)lost highway 8.5/10
4)mulholland Dr 8/10
5)blue velvet 8/10

Why?

Lynch is known for his surreal films and his movies are just supposed to wash over you and let you take a peek into his mind. I put them in this order cause of that.

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Here's an honest, non-meme enforced opinion:
I don't know if this was the first movie to do the whole "beginning is really the ending all along" thing, but I know it's become a borderline cliche trope. Personally, I prefer Lynch to be either be grounded in the story (Blue Velvet), or complete schizo nightmare (Inland Empire, Mulholland). Lost Highway is just in between those two extremes, and it didn't make the movie stick with me as much as his others.

Mulholland has even simpler story i would say.

>where does it rank in filmography of David Lynch?

It's way up there for me, top five.

But most of his films only have 1-2 jumpscares, what the hell are you blabbering about?

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Best Lynch kino desu

The concept of turning into a new person was really appealing to me as a kid so it always stuck with me. Despite the typical Lynch ambiguity in themes and storytelling, I think it's a good place to start with his films since it has a satisfying payoff and a good premise.

Yep
1-inland empire
2-mulholland drive
3-lost highway
4-eraser head
5-blue velvet

"Hm hmm...ha ha...hahaHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA!"
.....
"Give me back my phone"

You didn't understand his kino.
There wasn't any end is beginning trope.

What's the message of this story?

I have a Marxist take on it, which is that when an upper class, bourgeois identity becomes too restricting and punishing, the mind creates an alternative that is the complete social and material opposite.

This would explain why he turns into a young mechanic, from being a high society saxophonist.

You cant escape from reality...especially when you are on death row and sat in the electric chair.

He feels guilty and angry not being able to please his wife,so he murders her and goes into a deeper psychosis imaging the man he could be and the man he wants to be it comes full circle though when not even in his dreams he can't have the woman he really wants.
>ryangosling seething.jpg

It seemed like women are whores are to me.

Based

Look up psychogenic fugue in inmates..Barry Gifford co wrote Lost Highway confirms this theory.

in his "reality" yes...he has to have a reason to kill. Hence why the women are all whores...also why he was patronized post sex by his wife.

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Lynch introduced me to the sounds of the man from Moss Side.

I kinda think it's the opposite of Mulholland

It's one of the few movies I consider perfect. It's my favourite by Lynch, though Mulholland Drive is close.

It's creepy because Lynch relies on intuition also, and it has many extremely disturbing tropes.

>man intrudes in your home
>films it
>sends you tape of it

How many times have you guys seen it?

5/5

FUCKING HELL

I only realise now that Balthazar Getty is THE BALTHAZAR GETTY! The infamous family. His father got kidnapped and all, and an ear was cut off from him, sent to his grandfather, who still refused to pay.

Best bit about this character is that the actor eventually murdered his wife IRL.

Fucking creepy.

>when this man actually killed someone for real

The soundtrack is top tier 90's

>Balthazar Getty
>bitch, your movie better not start with a severed ear, you know...

>I don't know if this was the first movie to do the whole "beginning is really the ending all along" thing, but I know it's become a borderline cliche trope.

elliptic storytelling strategies predates cinema, they existed in literature and painting for hundreds of years.
Also LH is a vrai faux elliptic narrative. Do not attempt to equalize Lost Highway to an infantile Nolan script ffs, this is sophisticated scriptwriting and cinematographic grammar, make no mistake.

Inland Empire was a total shitshow and a complete waste of my money. Fuck you.

what the fuck

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2

this movie's theme was a huge influence on Silent Hill 2's plot.

no, fuck you, asshole. you don't deserve that film

No, the beginning is not the end. From the moment of the transformation, it's all in his head. You're meant to build the story from the scraps you have.

>man gets betrayed by his wife
>with the suave man who produces porn
>with the mafia man
>he follows them to a motel, the Lost Highway
>he finds them fucking (the red room)
>he kills both
>he drives away
>gets caught by cops
>electric chair (the weird final transformation is meant to echo execution)

The whole mental fugue is him doing to others what they did to him: he becomes a hot young man and cucks everyone and brutally murders them. Meanwhile, in reality, nothing happened this way.

I love that trope.

YOU ARE THE PERFECT DRUG THE PERFECT DRUG THE PERFECT DRUG

BOO BOO WOO WACK KACK KACKACK

>bruuutal fucking murder

More like brutal fucking snoozefest of degeneracy and complete nonsense.

piss off, faggot, I hope The Phantom rapes you with a lightbulb tonight

That video was basically late 90s pop goth industrial in a nutshell, with added interview with a vampire influences

This was the best era in music. I want chadfy Trent to pulverize my asshole

Mfw I can't dress as a vampire in public anymore

Are any David Lynch films not scary?

I wouldnt call it a shitshow but definetely his lowest effort.
Couldnt even bother to film it with a real camera just hand held it.

He's the director

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The Straight Story is about as non-scary as movies get

I dont remember anything spooky in Wild At Heart, but it did get cut to bits after test audiences loathed it.

>test audiences
has a worse concept ever been invented?

Agreed. it's the absolute polar opposite of anything Lynch has ever shot on film. I always thought interesting that TST was his last 90's movie, it's like a shower of pure good ol' americana feels right at the end of the 90's. Extraordinarily singular in Lynch's filmography, and underrated imo.

I'm just fascinated by how someone can direct Lost Highway and Straight Story back to back.

this movie is basic edgy Lost Highway and it's Lynch's best movie

CRUISE ME
CRUISE ME
CRUISE ME
BABE

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Move to Portland, LA, or San Fran and go for it

hes in Twin Peaks s3 also

Fuck yes
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The only movie that I don't understand and also enjoy.

GOAT OST.

yep

Exactly. It's completely mad as far as I am concerned. But it makes sense in a way, it's low tech, low budget, small crew, intimate script, glorious B/C list cast, overall beautiful, emotional and simple. Up to the title itself.
Everything the 90's weren't. Lynch simply hits super high artistic notes on both movies, impressive craft.

>psychogenic fugue
read the thread

On its initial release at a small local theater back in 97..only fucker in the place. Best cinema experience ever. Watched it couple of times a year ever since.

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It's the music, Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch made beautiful and atmospheric music

That Manson song in Lost Highway is kino as fuck

Angelo Badalamenti + Edgy 90s rock = kino
best 90s OST

I consider Straight Story his last proper "film"..anything after is Lynch being his usual experimental self (which is not a bad thing)

Lynch is exceptionally skilled at extremely honest and non ironic heartwarming moments, just look at that scene from Blue Velvet where Laura Dern's character talks about doves coming back and erasing darkness in the world or someshit like that

LYNCHED

it’s the first hyperlinked cinema made you retard

It's my favorite Lynch film. It may be because there's no ambiguity as to what it's about.

>50 yo Lynch
>makes the most hip and cool OST for its time
how does he do it?

I literally get a headache watching this.

The man has impeccable taste and never let it stagnate.

Manson was kino af in general pre 1998

No, that isn't him and that character was revenge against Oliver Stone.

Five, the first being during its original theatrical release.

>Lynch is exceptionally skilled at extremely honest and non ironic heartwarming moments

So fucking true, almost all his movies have incredibly strong human sensitive scenes that actually resonates. But most of his movies also feature darker patterns like say the monsters or the fast hyper violence. Characters,scenes and motifs that because of their primal brutal nature tend to overshadow Lynch's more delicate ability.

It's about OJ. It's the only film where Lynch slipped up and just spelled it out.

>and the uh the nine inch nails
That's also why they were referred to as such during TPTR.

Truly this, all the music videos and live performances in the Antichrist and Portrait era are without equal in regards to kino

MD>FWWM>LH>BV>WAH>Eraserhead>TEM>TSS

>Mulholland has even simpler story i would say
this

3, maybe 4, was my first Lynch, didn't understand a single word back then, still don't love it though

>if it's first it's good

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best lynch

Almost as good as Straight Story.

better than mulholland drive
also has the perfect intro youtu.be/s-RnuEUKNkk
he surprisingly looks better as he got older

Daily reminder that Lynch is a genius and also cheeky as fuck
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bump

It can't be a coincidence this guy killed his wife.

>Lynchfags like marilyn manson.
I think i get it now.

there are 3 types of people in this world:
those who like manson, those who don't like manson, and those who like manson