Neon Lights: Top 10 Reasons to watch Lost Highway

Lost Highway is about... a man in trouble.

It is David Lynch's first exploration of film-making through the human psyche's perspective. Everything that happens in the movie is a result of the main character's psychological manifestation. The characters are not what they seem; Lynch uses multiple identities for any single character to represent the distortion of the main character's perspective. Through this we develop an insight to the main character that allows us to understand their condition; we may not fully comprehend the reality of the main character's life, but more importantly we experience their reaction to reality.

At it's core, Lost Highway is about the torment of being unable to break out of the six stages of the Karmic Cycle (the only solution is to break free from desire and obtain enlightenment, obivo). This concept is explored in a similar fashion in Mulholland Drive, and dramatically developed in INLAND EMPIRE. So now lets look the kick-ass perspective of what makes Lost Highway such an awesome movie.

10 Reason to watch Lost Highway

10. David Bowie sings the first and last song of the movie. The entire soundtrack is pretty much perfect.

9. Introduction to symbolic themes, objects, and colors that resurface in Mulholland Drive and INLAND EMPIRE. Black telephones, colors red and blue, curtains (see Twin Peaks), car accidents, dreams, blurry images, Scott Coffey.