What a Puzzle!

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2003)

A puzzle with no solution is no puzzle. That was my take on "Lost Highway." Yet with so many admirers of the great Lynch, I had to give "Mulhollad D" a shot. "Don't expect to understand it," I said to myself. "Let the right brain ride with the flow. After all, it's David Lynch." I guess that was the right way to watch it, because I got it on the first take, which I often don't with easier movies. Of course I didn't get it until almost the end. While my right brain was riding the waves, I guess my subconscious was busy examining the hull, so when the "Betty" nametag appeared, the Aha was confirmed. An explicit revelation of the plot is found in the IMDB review by idyllbay. My take is slightly different, but only slightly and does require invoking Eastern philosophies of death. (By the way, you don't have to understand this film to enjoy it, as most devoted Lynch fans will tell you.) I will only add that I have found few puzzle movies so sweetly satisfying since Vertigo. (Guess I have to re-see Lost Highway)