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An insightful documentary with lots of shaded ideas. Thankfully it is not a simple-minded ovation as is so common in this genre. All kinds of themes are interwoven and brought up for inspection: political, social, musical and more. Highly recommended.

I would say this is the quintessential Lynch-movie, even though people tend not to agree with me on that. Evereywhere I look, it gets mediocre reviews, although it deserves a top-rating. Lynch is not to be understood - he is to be FELT! And experience a surreal tour of absurdity. LIVE the abnormal and horrifying world of his and be happy you're not actually there, because if you do - you die... In "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks" for instance, there still is a great deal of "reality" that you can relate to, as opposed to "Eraserhead". But in "Lost Highway" it starts off with a kind of reality that soon seems to be worth nothing. With this one - you can loose the grip of yourself, and afterward (hopefully) return to wherever it is that you live.

This rather unusual Hitchcock movie (at least when it comes to the realisation) is well-acted, greatly staged and has a general good feeling about it. My favourites from this one is of course the uncomparable James Stewart and - the color! Just take a good look at the beatiful technicolor! Sadly enough it didn't do too well at the box-office and being considered an experiment. But after its re-release in 1984 those judgements have been mostly righteously updated...