Review of Lost Highway (1997) by Alex S — 07 Jun 2016

Not David Lynch's best work. It is one of his most interesting, though. The way I look at this film, it's part one of three separate works of his that begin with a story that's coherent and intriguing, only to spiral out of control with symbolism and metaphors.

Those other two works are Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. Both of which are much better; however, for the case of this film, what makes this a lesser work to those two is the excessive nudity. There's just too much of it.

If it were not for Patricia Arquette's breasts bombarding the audience over and over again, the film would have been able to be taken for what it aimed to be taken for, which is art. No matter how good the first have is--and it is good--it doesn't change the fact the Lynch forgets when to draw line between art and porn.