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Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Richard Pryor, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Lost Highway |
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David Lynch cowrote with Barry Gifford the screenplay of LOST HIGHWAY and directed it in 1997.
California. Bill Pullman is a musician living with Patricia Arquette. Day after day, they are receiving video tapes showing the outside of their house and later the interior of the apartment. The last video tape shows the killing of Patricia Arquette by Bill Pullman. Bill is arrested and sentenced to death. Suffering from amnesia and severe headaches, he plunges into a long dream that will constitute the rest of the movie. He's imagining that he's Pete Dayton, a young man working in a garage, who falls in love with his murdered wife look-alike, Alice Wakefield. Alice is the mobster Robert Loggia's girlfriend and she soon proposes to Pete to run away with her. Pete will accidentally kill Andy, Alice's friend, for money and tries to escape from Robert Loggia's revenge.
A movie about guilt, obsession, dreams, film noir and so on. Just don't try to understand it the first time.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Lost Highway |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- spurned lover goes for revenge
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- stalker with romantic feelings for victim
Brain/Body not working?
- amnesia
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- singer/musician
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Desert?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
- resort/hotel
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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