Castration Complex in Lost Highway

Chelsea 2021-11-15 08:01:26

Originally wanted to watch David Lynch's "Blue Velvet", but couldn't find resources on the Internet, but found his "Wasn in the Night" on Youku. From the beginning to the end, it is really Freud. The mysteries are coming one after another, making people overwhelmed, and the ending is still confusing.

After concluding the curtain, I suddenly found that from beginning to end, it was clear that he was only talking about the castration complex of a middle-aged man, and about the huge shadow his impotence had caused on his psychology.

At the beginning, renee and fred were XXOO together. Later, it turned out to be thunder and rain. Renee patted fred's back like a mother coaxing a child, softly comforting "it's ok~it's ok" , Let fred feel the loss of dignity. Later, fred even found out that he was wearing a green hat and finally killed Renee and her lover. However, in such a simple revenge incident, Fred, who lost his dignity, turned the facts upside down during self-hypnosis. In fred’s fantasy, fred is no longer a cuckold, impotent middle-aged husband, but a young, strong, and suave pete dave with two feet; Renee is no longer a wife who has an affair, but is transformed into a triad boss. My lover, Alice, is willing to betray the boss and follow Pete to the world...

This is a bit like the protagonist of the split personality in the fight club. In reality, the weak and incompetent, suppressed people who have nowhere to release, finally sink into their own fantasy and incarnate into their own desires. Ideal personality. Everything is so Freud~~

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Extended Reading
  • Isobel 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    Rewatch. Six-star movie, postmodernist model. Lynch's image points to the future, and any psychological deconstruction is useless. Imagery is perceptual, and as we hit the dark road with David Bowie's I'm Deranged, we've become jazz musicians in a frenzy. Sexual, violent, bizarre, we're madly absorbing Lynch's video drug, turning off the sun, and pulling the stars down from the sky. Death and fear surround us. The change of identities between maintenance workers and musicians, the death of Dick Lauren, "true and false when false." We can't tell the difference between the real and the fake, let alone know the boundary between the real and the fake.

  • Maudie 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    0812 Big screen rewatch. The corner of the theater in the middle of the night feels a little scary but still charming. His movies are "flying big" style in my heart, the green and red are wonderful and suffocating. I really like this one, it has a lot of aftertastes, and the structure is interesting. It's hilarious to see Manson.//I look at the disparity between the human brain and the human brain.

Lost Highway quotes

  • Fred Madison: Dick Laurent is dead...

  • Fred Madison: Where's Alice?

    Mystery Man: Alice who? Her name is Renee. If she's told you her name is Alice, she's lying.

    [filled with rage]

    Mystery Man: [shouts] And your name? What the fuck is your name?