Lynch
Lost Highway: Interpreted but Never ExplainedThe purpose of this essay is to explain the psychoanalytic and postmodern ideals portrayed in the David Lynch film “Lost Highway.” His works are, for the most part, non-linear, absurd, chaotic and emotional. Lynch takes the rawness of human schizophrenia and attempts to create a world where everything happens at once. His visuals are a subconscious storm that evoke rather than render a concrete story. With this destruction of story there is also the destruction of the meta-narrative. Lynch creates an object of a story rather than the story itself. The creation of this destruction requires there to be a mental narrative, and like most stories in literature or cinema they are interpreted rather than told. The story is individual, and decoded by the individual. It is not whole, and the sense of completeness is lost on paper and screen; only to be recovered by the audience. To destroy the meta-narrative a meta-narrative has to be created. When the meta-narrative that destroys is created it is used as an object rather than a meta-narrative. Lynch creates this obscureness through portraying visions as a sub-conscious flow, and having almost all of the dialogue delivered in his
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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