A try to demystify 'Lost Highway'

Lost Higway is a really good movie. You keep watching it event it seem totally obscure. This is one of the strength of David Lynch.

The first time I watched Lost Highway, I was a bit lost. Here some of explanations of Lost Highway I found on the Internet:

• Fred make a pact with the devil incarnated by the Mysterious Man,
• Mysterious Man is a video camera,
• Just the first part of the story is real. The rest is in the Fred’s imagination,

and I don’t speak about many point of view found in forums.

I finished to find two good site talking about this movie. But none of them still totally convinced me:

• the first is mediacircus,
• the second which state almost the same interpretation about the movie and explain with even more details is on jasonweb

Nonetheless, this movie must be watched knowing you’ll cannot resolve the solution. At his best you’ll can suggest an interpretation close to the one of David Lynch.

I believe I had found a coherent interpretation which allow to follow the movie without being totally lost. I believed it can give the keys necessary to make its own idea of the movie.

The Rorschach test

Like the protagonist, everybody see what he want to see in this movie. It is an invitation to think. Watch this movie is a little like watch a Rorschach’s test. What do we see in it? Everybody put its own personnality in the interpretation of the movie.

• If you are mystic, you’ll see in the mysterious man a devil,
• If you are more psychanalytics, you’ll see an inconscient part of the protagonist…

Generally, we stay in this movie and we fail explaining everything. There is almost always a point that don’t fit within the interpretation of the movie. This is why trying to find a unique good interpretation of this movie is a mistake.

Interprétation ≠ Explanation

I give an interpretation and not an explanation. Just to tell my vision of the movie should be very different from yours. There is certainly many coherent explanations.

I write this post because I believe I had found an interpretation which seems coherent for most of the movie.

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