Lynch is one of the few Hollywood directors, who lets his audience think, instead of just lulling it asleep.
@hammeredout8146
8 ай бұрын
Agreed.
@ThalassicMeasure
Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, but Tarantino, while no doubt talented and better than most, has never come close to Lynch. I was a 20-something young man influenced by all these films and filmmakers. I enjoyed those Tarantino and Stone films, but not so much anymore. I'm now a man and the messages within those are too shallow to last. However, Lynch has only gotten better as I've aged. Each time watching better than the last. His films are timeless in ways the others never will be. At best they're slices of the Zeitgeist, educational more than inspirational. Lynch will be discussed for centuries, long after these guys are mere footnotes.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
You don't need to be sorry. And yes, I agree. Please like, subscribe and share.
@WildFungus
11 ай бұрын
I like Wild At Heart a lot more than I like any of his more cerebral later efforts. He just didnt bother to make the effort to make the films accessible retreating the esoteria of Eraserhead and artfilms. Thanks to Mark Frost though someone managed to reign him in to give us Twin Peaks. :D
@Jean-PaulMichell
10 ай бұрын
I put Lynch up there with Kubric, except Lynch is more likeable personally. His films are completely original, endlessly rewatchable, and open doors in the mind I didn't even know existed... Lynch taught me how to understand things on a different level. I respect Stone, and to a lesser degree Tarantino, but you're right; they're like kids playing director compared to Lynch being the true, adult filmmaker.
@user-cq5sg9cb4t
10 ай бұрын
Quentin is a pop culture phenomenon, but hardly a significant filmmaker. He's to film what Steven King is to literature and Taylor Swift to music. Can't surely call him talentless, but as the modern epoch will start fading away, so will Tarantino's legacy.
@dragonmartijn
8 ай бұрын
@@user-cq5sg9cb4tTarantino made violence movies. Violence is mostly an easy solution for complications you can’t handle mentally in life. He was a coworker with the Weinsteinpredator, who wanted to rape Uma Thurman (next to orhers). Yet Tarantino said he himself loved Thurman. If that is the case you would ditch Weinstein, but he didn’t. Most movies, including this one Lost Highway aren’t good movies, no matter the brilliance.
@thisisnotachannel
11 ай бұрын
Wow, dude... fucking WOW. You really nailed it here. I hope Lynch himself sees this. He would be proud.
@hammeredout8146
11 ай бұрын
I'm sure Lynch doesn't watch these kinds of videos, but thanks. Please like, subscribe and share.
@FWDSUXARSE
10 ай бұрын
I saw this film when it came out. I was 17. It took several years later and subsequent viewings for me to truly understand and appreciate the wild story, pacing, and subliminal messages and subtleties. Hell of a fine film.
@biggoathorns
7 ай бұрын
I hated it when I first saw it back then. It was so unconventional and annoying to me.
@krodatem
Жыл бұрын
Lost Highway occurs on a mobius strip where the film ends in the same place it starts, but cross contaminates in the middle.
@swine77
Жыл бұрын
This is an incredible interpretation, extremely well done. I guess my issue is that the thesis of the film seems to be stated clearly by Fred to the detectives: “I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.” This really enforced the fugue state interpretation and I’m not sure how it fits in here.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you asked! Lynch said that, in real life, literally, he doesn't like video cameras because he likes to remember things his own way. Fred shares this point of view. It certainly sounds creepy, almost like a confession, but it wasn't meant to be read that way.
@rustyxof
5 ай бұрын
Why are things that are so obvious not seen as red herrings? How do craft a labyrinth with out dead ends? It can’t be a one shit line to the goal. That’s not the point the point of the dance is the dance
@johnnygust6116
Жыл бұрын
I enjoy the mind puzzles that Lynch delivers. I feel he plays with concepts and phased characters in mental trauma that opens them up to involuntarily intact with parallel realms. So his films are more like a nightmare experience loops. Lynch must of been inspired by Cocteau and Kenneth Anger.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Oh, yes. Pretty much all the surrealists.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Maggie Mae Fish talks about "Orpheus" and how it likely inspired Lynch. I'm like 90% sure that's where he got the zig-zag floor.
@WildFungus
10 ай бұрын
it's visual poetry in the sense it needs to be interpreted which is always nice to be engaged.
@Sumikrus
6 ай бұрын
Things explained here most certainly play a role in a lot of Lynch's work. However, it's sort of saddening to hear people make his films and Twin Peaks almost exclusively about commentaries on TV/film productions and all that goes on in making them. Too many people these days go: "I know what Twin Peaks is about: TV! That's it, case closed!" These analysis, although well made and put together, lose something I'm sure both Lynch and Mark Frost would agree on: the simple things that make a story on the surface level. I believe it's obvious both Twin Peaks and films Lynch has made (and in the case of TP, Mark Frost as well) tell the story of ordinary people, the deeply emotional human experience we all go through, it's traps and tragedies, fantastical elements one may stumble upon while on the way to find a meaning to this experience of ours. David Lynch is a fine storyteller first and someone looking deeper inside the entertainment industry second.
@hammeredout8146
6 ай бұрын
No one is saying "case closed." We are pointing out what the central purpose of Twin Peaks is, we are not saying that no one else can appreciate it in any other way.
@Sumikrus
6 ай бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 Twin Perfect says in the beginning of his video: "If you have seen all of Twin Peaks and you enjoy diving into the mystery and trying to figure out what things mean and then discussing theories with other fans, this spoiler warning is for you too. Even you, the Twin Peaks expert, still might not want to watch this video." He elevates himself above the status of a "Twin Peaks-expert" and is so sure of his "correctness", he feels the need to warn absolutely everyone, because all other enjoynment of the show may be completely destroyed by his interpretation. What follows, is connecting absolutely everything in Twin Peaks into " it's about commentary on TV violence", no matter how shaky the connection. There's an unapologetic self-centeredness towards one's own brilliance in declarations such as the one in that video. Even the claim of knowing the "central purpose" is pompous. What if the "central purpose" of Twin Peaks is the cycle of abuse and everything that comes with it and all the other elements circle around that theme? Or something entirely else? Well, according to certain videos on KZitem, that's simply not possible.
@phillophotographer7366
Ай бұрын
LoL. I love your premise. "The theory is just wrong" 😂
@tuiwihongi774
Жыл бұрын
I would love to see your takes on other Lynch works, specifically INLAND EMPIRE, Mulholland Drive, and Eraserhead.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
I intend to do an "Inland Empire" video. I doubt that I would do "Eraserhead." You can see the best "Mulholland Drive" essay here kzitem.info/news/bejne/sJ95zHyNbIBkqaQ. Please like, subscribe and share!
@alliebooth1517
6 ай бұрын
What about rabbits?@@hammeredout8146
@Ziplomatic007
11 ай бұрын
Sometimes as an artist, you juxtapose things that seem to go together, or not, because it feels right to do so. There isn't a rational interpretation inside the mind of the artist while he is creating. Otherwise, it would not be abstract. Abstract is a series of feelings that may, or may not, convey a tangible idea. That real point is the feeling, not the idea behind it. I like your interpretation, but I don't think this was in the mind of the artist when this film was created. However, that also does not mean it is false. It's intentionally nothing but ambiguous. I am sure the artist chuckles at all of these interpretations because the ambiguity is the goal. It is the space between two equally plausible ideas that the imagination of the audience is at its most active. This is when we feel the art. When our imagination is engaged, we become co-conspirators in the plot as it is revealed, and it is up to us to add our own conclusion.
@hammeredout8146
11 ай бұрын
Well, thanks for clearing that up.
@davidtitterington
Жыл бұрын
This is SOOOOO well done!
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, David. Now, become a thousand people.
@Robert-cg1id
4 ай бұрын
I've been a David Lynch fan for decades, and it's my opinion that everything you see on the screen is actually happening. That doesn't mean the 'fantasy' theories are wrong. The mysterious man is a Faustian/Genie character and he has made the fantasy real. He either takes the other man's life, or he's spontaneously brought into existence, it's not clear. But just like with the monkey's paw, everything goes wrong. He can't be free of Renee, and so he can't be free of his crimes. They go hand in hand, alluded to by her change in behavior. Him admitting he wants her, needs her, breaks the spell. He effectively surrenders himself completely, and returns to who he was. But the deal was struck and he's the mysterious man's slave now. His fate is left ambiguous. He now belongs to the road.
@MultiWeb23
Жыл бұрын
The "inconsistency" of the two pairs of detectives being in the same room at the same time is not exactly an inconsistency, we need to recall that Lynch's films usually mix dreams and reality in way that the most we portant thing we should/can do is to feel. But as a professor of mine one said: if you don't know how to interpret it, go to the metalinguistic analysis... but both can exist at the same time :P Another proof that the Mystery Man is the crew etc is when he says "we've met before [...] at your house" (because Fred sees the camera)
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Yes, when I say inconsistency I mean that it is inconsistent with "Pete is a Dream" to have all four detectives in the same space. Please like, subscribe and share.
@samsungfanboy
11 ай бұрын
This is an incredible video! I love how in depth you went here. I would love to see you dive deep into Inland Empire. Keep up the great work! 👍
@hammeredout8146
11 ай бұрын
I am considering doing an "Inland Empire" video. Please like, subscribe and share.
@noahdyedotcom
Жыл бұрын
My favorite movie of all time. Complicated, beautifully shot... I have the Criterion 4k release and I am completely in awe of how beautiful the 35mm to digital transfer is.. the film grain dances across the screen, the moody lighting, the powerful characters.. For me the power of this film is to just sit in the unknown, a sensorial experience that leaves you wondering about the all the things you dont know or understand about life... the nuances that make life worth living.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Agreed. Please like, subscribe and share.
@wishcraft4u2
Жыл бұрын
As a fellow fan of this movie, and someone that was somewhat impressed by Hammer's explanation: What do you think about Hammer's theory on what Lynch had in mind with this movie?
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@wishcraft4u2 "somewhat" impressed 🤔
@noahdyedotcom
Жыл бұрын
@@wishcraft4u2 Well I think thats the magic of Lynch.. Lynch isnt pandering to the audience at all. Hes doing whats authentic to him. The author of this youtube video very well may be right about a lot of it, but for me Lynch isnt supposed to be figured out.. its like thinking about the edge/end of the universe.. whats beyond it? You'll never know, but the wonder/excitement/allure that happens with that thought is what Lynch incapsulates.
@dancurtin2756
15 күн бұрын
Excellent. Thank you. Saw it in the theater in Times Square when it opened, and although I enjoyed it, my expectations were too high. Loggia stole the show. I did buy the soundtrack....excellent party music.... 🤘
@susiehenders
Ай бұрын
A great essay! Thank you so much for your work 🙏
@hammeredout8146
Ай бұрын
You're welcome. Please like, subscribe and share.
@ayeshazhukov
Жыл бұрын
This is a work of hilarious genius. I love it. Brilliant.
@jdq9753
5 ай бұрын
My friend you deserve way more subscribers , I had been watching the films you’ve covered on my own and it’s nice to see someone covering the films in almost the exact order I watched them for the first time. Keep going , probably the best Lynch analysis channel and still so far to go
@hammeredout8146
5 ай бұрын
Thank you, JDQ. Please spread the word on social media, that's how I get more subscribers. My next video will cover "Inland Empire."
@WildFungus
11 ай бұрын
I liked Gene Siskels breakdown of the plot. A Jazz musician is arrested for a crime and becomes somebody else. so he cannot be arrested since he's not the same guy who committed the crime...
@cristianmauriciomartinezbr9085
3 ай бұрын
Excellent explanation! Well done!
@hammeredout8146
3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Please like, subscribe and share.
@sakan92
Ай бұрын
I have allways wanted to watch Lost Highway and after buying and watching Mulholland Drive for the first time this week, I decided to buy Lost Highway too. I did enjoyed the movies, but I feel like the story of Pete and Betty alene would have been very good movies by themselves if changed and made more realistic. Both are very intriguing and very interesting and the drama is captivating so they make for very good plots.
@hammeredout8146
Ай бұрын
Thanks. Please like, subscribe and share.
@NarcissistAU
Жыл бұрын
I adore this film, and I've accepted I'll never be satisfied with my understanding of it. Almost.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what you're saying.
@NarcissistAU
Жыл бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 I just mean that out of all of his feature presentations, I feel LH has the most scope for interpretation informed by the viewer's experience. I know what Lynch has said about it, I can see elements of numerous disciplines represented (filmmaking and psychiatric for example), but I still feel like it's scratching at something in my own experience that I can't nail down. The joy of surrealism, the delicious light torture of fishing around in the subconscious terrified of what you might bring to the surface. Yes Nanny! I broke the vase! Let me fetch the crop! Erm, well I just mean, you know, like, I dig the freedom of interpretation.
@NarcissistAU
Жыл бұрын
@@davidagiel8130 There's no way I'm bringing my Nanny into this. Mother. I meant Mother. Bugger.
@megan2277
3 ай бұрын
this is soooo crazy!! good job!
@hammeredout8146
3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Please like, subscribe and share.
@nextabe1
Жыл бұрын
Great video. Gonna start watching Twin Peaks now.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Please like, subscribe and share.
@MagnusMFX
3 ай бұрын
I know this is a new upload but still, I still watch this occasionally to this day!
@hammeredout8146
3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@drlarrymitchell
3 ай бұрын
With the casting being a comment, Bill Pullman was the star of Spaceballs.. a movie where characters watch the movie they're in while they're IN the movie.
@hammeredout8146
3 ай бұрын
Probably a coincidence, but who knows. There is a 1990 film called "Brain Dead" starring Bill Pullman that is supposed to have parallels to "Lost Highway," but apophenia is a real thing.
@Pspet
Жыл бұрын
Very nicely done, very underrated video!
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Then rate me high!
@matthewlong3710
8 ай бұрын
Holy shit. This was a truly mind-blowing analysis, wow! So much to think about and unpack... thank you! Immediately liked, subscribed and shared on social media, #bravo!
@hammeredout8146
8 ай бұрын
No, thank *you* . . . and watch your language!
@di380
2 ай бұрын
Oh shit, I remember watching lost highway and making a joke of course someone is filming and moving the lights the director and film crew. the first David Lynch movie I have ever watched was Twin Peaks and years late I watched lost highway; not knowing it was made by the same director, but I thought it was some post modern mess but David Lynch has a particular way of making films that are all under a similar themes which seem to revolve around Hollywood
@Bad_Sick_311
4 ай бұрын
2:09 That guy was an actual contract killer for the five families in NYC, the one with the mustache on the left, Lou Eppolito. Your video is fire. You're packing some serious heat.
@hammeredout8146
4 ай бұрын
Yes, I know about Eppolito, I just didn't mention it because it wasn't relevant to my thesis. Please consider sharing on social media so they'll be even more heat!
@wishcraft4u2
Жыл бұрын
It's a deeply flawed argument to start out from, I'm afraid, to insist that the dream-interpretation of the plot is "inconsistent" because elements from the supposed real world start to re-emerge in it. It's a fixture, a cliché I guess, in the Western tradition of intepretation of dreams, that anxiety dreams occur exactly because the state of denial that allows the dream-consciousness fails to keep out the reality it's trying to deny, even if it seems that the dream can tell its own story on its own terms. It can only do so much to keep the reality out of mind without "telling on itself". Not in the least, this is one of the major points made in Freud's work that's literally called The Interpretation of Dreams. He starts out with the recognizable phenomenon of, say, dreaming of all sorts of noises except an alarm clock because your mind is using your dream to keep you asleep. He then abstracts this to include inner causes of turmoil that disturbs the dream consciousness, and talks about the role repressed notions about, say, a love hate relationship with one's father might play to that effect. He talks, for instance, about how such sentiments seemed to play a role in a dream of a father that holds vigil at the body of his deceased son, to be awoken from his dream by a vision of his son saying "father, can you not see that I burn"... to the reality of a candle having fallen over and having put his son on fire in reality. You may not agree with that but it's nonetheless a rather intuitive idea to have about "dream logic" once you stumble upon the idea. It's also not that uncommon for people to apply this kind of "dream logic" to depictions of psychotic states of denial.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
So . . . don't be careless with candles around children?
@wishcraft4u2
Жыл бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 yeah, anyways, the idea that especially anxiety dreams have elements of the repressed reality creep back into them, and that this is what makes it an anxiety dream, is a firmly established tradition in Western thinking about dreams. In fact, it probably is the single most influential idea in the western traditions of dream interpretation.
@wishcraft4u2
Жыл бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 I watched the video another time and gave it some thought and, though Im always very skeptical about overly specific "solution" type interpretations, I have to admit you make a very convincing case. The movie set references in the interior of the rooms in the movie are indeed uncanny. But what really gets at me is how obviously and much more explicitly such themes are used in Inland Empire, themes of front- and back stage actually becoming the boundaries between one world that's a fiction in another world, of the actual movie reappearing as a movie in the movie, etc... I cant help feel like it probably wasnt as deliberately encoded into it by Lynch like that, after all, it's not actually as useful for an artist to deliberalely hide the One True Interpretation into their work as if it were an easter egg for us to find. But I can now really see how something to that effect was going on in Lynch's mind, leading him to come up with a plot like that. Edit: on a complete tangent, I just realized how much Mystery Guy reminds me of a character called Sper Gossi, from the Moebius comic The Hermetic Garage. He looks a lot like him, this sinister, conniving, chagrined, almost pierrot-looking guy. And what do you know: he also gains a lot of power from having somehow become aware that the world he exists in is an artifice, a mere simulation, and tries to gain some kind of satisfaction from trying to shoot another character in the head, who turns out to be the creator of that world.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@wishcraft4u2 Thank you for the kind words. You should be suspicious of "solution" type analysis, and, yes, the "One True" meaning is not hidden like an Easter Egg. I reject a lot of movies for consideration before I commit to a "Hammered Out" essay just because I do not think that there is an "explanation" to be found. However, I conjecture that effective surrealism necessarily has an internal logic to it, otherwise it would not be effective surrealism, it would be random nonsense. As for Lynch, I would be a fool to try and understand his thinking, but he *definitely* hides meaning in his work. I think that too many persuasive, concrete explanations exist to write off the entire venture of understanding Lynch. Another way to look at it is like this: Lynch does not *intentionally* construct a puzzle, he *unintentionally* constructs a puzzle. I tried reading Airtight Garage, but got bored. I will give another go on your recommendation and be on the lookout for Sper Gossi. I do know that Lynch was influenced by Moebius, Jodorowsky and that whole crowd. Also, I consider Freud to be antiquated and dream interpretation to be a lost cause. However, it takes a master like Lynch to create a dream-like feeling with film.
@wishcraft4u2
Жыл бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 The thing is, Freud's anxiety dream model may well apply to the movie *as you interpret it:* repressed realities returning to haunt characters in some kind of symbolic disguise, and doing so exactly because that conflict was already inherent in how their desire is trying to escape reality, would then actually be a central motief of the movie. Think about it. All the characters crash into a harsh reality that their fantasy was allowing them to escape, exactly because it was already inherent in the desire behind the fantasy they were fostering. Lets see how this would apply to the characters under your interpretation: Mystery dude runs into his own delusion in the form of being unable to kill Laurant permanently, exactly because, ironically, the "harsh reality" is it's a strawman he himself created. Fred's paranoid fantasies are exactly what allows him to feel the sense of escape, freedom, boldness, etc... Of being able to "just walk off the set of his life" but when it turns out that he's getting exactly what he wanted, this ultimately leads to his rather painful unraveling. Pete is really doing something in the "opposite direction", but quite the same... The irritation at memories and noises is an almost physical "allergy response" to repressed elements of his reality imho. Even Laurent, he doesn't exactly get a triumphant victory over Mystery Guy, he's stuck in a purgatory where he keeps dying, literally, after being shown the ugly side of his existence, over and over again... Mystery guy at the very least is certainly trying to confront him with his repressed. The irony is that, exactly in order to keep on "dreaming", to keep sustaining the fantasy they are wishing for, the characters have to take its logic to a point where it begins "telling on itself", their story doesnt add up, exactly like a person that cant present a tight explanation to the cops (even if the person really believes they could).
@batmantheanimated
Жыл бұрын
Great video, ty for analysis.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Thank YOU! Please like, subscribe and share!
@canti7951
6 ай бұрын
I love analyses like these but I think we shouldn't get too ahead of ourselves when discussing "internal logic" in surrealist art. Strictly speaking, as long as a film ends, there is a way to make sense of it and apply an internal logic that is consistent all throughout. After all if the logic is based on the entirety, it should follow that the entirety could be explained by that logic. This is why I would argue that applying internal logic to surrealist art (or even claiming that there has to be), while fun and exciting, still inherently limits the art form as it metaphorically "ends" the film. The "real" meaning of a film extends outside of it, or simply put, a film or any art will always be bigger than itself. An internal logic simply proposes a guided understanding of a film, a map you perfectly superimpose onto it. Keeping logical consistency therefore invites a one dimensional reading into the film, which can be useful when you're trying to follow a film. However, foregoing the "need" to follow *an* internal logic allows the art to be viewed from multiple angles even if those angles may disagree with each other. For example, Twin Perfect's TP analysis is great and almost flawless. And yet, TP's feminist subtext is a large part of its appeal to women. TP's deeply esoteric and mystical-philosophical roots are also unmissable. Obviously, Twin Perfect couldn't have covered all those and incorporated them in his analysis, but that's the whole point right? It's impossible. That's why it's boring to listen to one analysis. Adhering to a straight logic could never cover the expansive meaning of an art. You're probably never going to read this but if you are, your attitude towards the other youtubers you mentioned are a bit disrespectful and conceited. Especially towards placereel since all you really did is put an underwhelming example on top of his way more convincing work. But anyway, you and Twin Perfect would definitely get along lol.
@hammeredout8146
6 ай бұрын
I am reading this. Explaining the meaning of a film doesn't mean that you are negating all the subjective experiences people have. For a lot of people, enjoying the film requires a deep understanding of its internal logic. That's my audience. I thought I was being respectful to placereel. I usually cite people I respect (except when I make fun of Rob Ager--he's garbage). I am quite grateful to placereel for getting this ball rolling and I will apologize to them personally if I came off as rude. I assume I was polite to Matt Murray since he is making a cameo in my next video 😁 Rosseter is not talking to me . . . or anyone. Maybe in another universe where he wasn't bullied into self-exile, we could have been friends, but I'll never know. I explain how the metafiction of Twin Peaks and its feminist message work together in my second video on the topic. Look for graphics by Versiris who did the graphics for Twin Perfect!
@canti7951
6 ай бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 My main gripe with the video is your mention of how surrealist art has to follow some sort of internal logic, lest it would just be plain random. I highly recommend Tarkovsky movies (specifically Mirror) in this regard if you haven't, maybe you'll see where I'm coming from. Not that Tarkovsky is strictly a surrealist, but his movies are definitely not "random", even though there's no "code" to be cracked that guides the logic of some select moments in his movies. He simply is vibing and I think it's not at all bad/a misunderstanding to say the same for Lynch, if anything it enriches his films. And as for the "disrespectful" comment, I understand it wasn't your intention. It's not really my place to judge since I'm not placereel or any of those youtubers you mentioned. Ig it just seemed that way for me.
@hammeredout8146
6 ай бұрын
@@canti7951 If I seemed disrespectful to you, then probably I could have been more respectful. You seem like the sort of person whose opinion I should trust. Do you know how to get in touch with placereel? I am getting into Tarkovsky, and I may do an essay on "Stalker." I haven't decided yet (also, I have no idea what's happening, so, that's a big negative). Any leads on research into Tarkovsy would be welcome. I recommend Maggie Mae Fish's video on the film. As for cracking a code, Hammer's Conjecture (not a theory, not even a hypothesis) is that there must be an internal logic behind seemingly opaque material if it generates a real emotional effect. There is no way to prove this, since it is unlikely that film theory and cognitive science will be reconciled in my lifetime, so for now, I only spend my time analyzing movies for which I personally can find a coherent explanation. That alone will keep me busy for a long time. I make these videos for people to better appreciate these films, and even though 9% of the comments are rage-filled invective, ten times that many people have nice things to say, so, I consider this a success.
@LeonardoPereira-j8r
Жыл бұрын
I think im more confused now 😂 What about the tapes? Was all a movie? Kind like Iriland Empire? 😅
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Hello. Did you watch the entire video? The tapes are videotape dubs of the movie that the characters are in.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@davidagiel8130 Okay, so, this is the claim that I debunk. Are you going to engage with my argument or just declare that I'm wrong?
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@davidagiel8130 Hey, let's play a game. I'll say something and then you ignore it and write whatever you already wanted to say about Freud, Jung and Lacan. GO!
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@davidagiel8130 Did you watch the video?
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@davidagiel8130 Lynch said something about me and my video?
@samsquanch1996
2 ай бұрын
Personally, when it comes to Lynch films I don't think there really are any "wrong" theories. Like Kubrick, Lynch tends to leave a lot open for the viewer to come up with their own theories.
@hammeredout8146
2 ай бұрын
What if I explained "Twin Peaks" by insisting that Steven Urkel killed Laura Palmer. Would you be averse to calling that "wrong?"
@samsquanch1996
2 ай бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 I guess so, Mr. Smart Ass
@hammeredout8146
2 ай бұрын
@@samsquanch1996 You *would* be averse. So, the "theory" that Urkel killed Laura Palmer is legit, in your estimation?
@chasehoward3559
9 ай бұрын
I really like these analyses but it's important to note that while the meta-analysis is a totally valid lens through which to see the Lynch's work it's definitely not an end-all-be-all. I think that the 'dream' aspect of Lynch's work upsets people because they think 'it was all a dream' is a lazy plot device but the way Lynch does it, it's anything but. Lynch basically pioneered a new way of storytelling by which a character can be studied by essentially using the character's (say, Diane Selwyn) mindscape as a second lens through which the movie is shot (the first lens being the camera lens of course), giving us a 'dream' that isn't really a dream but the phantasmatic projection of the character's inner psyche. We learn about the character based on what their projection is like! It's fucking brilliant. The focus on this phantasmatic projection also leans heavily into psychoanalysis, whether purposeful or otherwise. Blue Velvet particularly is one of the most Freudian movies I've ever seen in my life, and while I don't know whether Lynch knows or cares anything about psychoanalysis it's indisputable that his work has heavy Freudian themes in it. Overall I really like the work here and on the Twin Peaks videos because they gave me so much to think about, but I think sometimes the meta-analysis misses the forest for the trees by ignoring this massive aspect of Lynch's work.
@hammeredout8146
9 ай бұрын
I dispute that his work has heavy Freudian themes. The problem with Freud's ideas is that they are so broad that you can apply them to anything. In other words, it's not falsifiable, which is why psychology has rejected it as unscientific. I have discussed the trees *and* the forest. That's why the video is an hour long. There were a lot of trees to point out in order to describe the forest. I would never say that my point of view is the end-all-be-all, but I try to present the best possible interpretation. If you have a better one, then, good for you. I will happily admit to being bested. However, I think that you have gone backwards into ideas which I consider discredited. But, thanks for the kind words. I sense that there is a genuine appreciation mixed with doubt, and I return the sentiment.
@chasehoward3559
8 ай бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 Oh I don’t mean to suggest that psychoanalysis is scientific or therapeutically useful, just that it has a massively outsized presence in art, especially film. Freud’s ideas permeate throughout Lynch’s work because so much of what Lynch has to say involves the exploration of consciousness as first enumerated by Freud and other psychoanalysts.
@hammeredout8146
8 ай бұрын
@@chasehoward3559 It's *possible* that Lynch was influenced by Freud, but Freud's ideas are not a tool for understanding Lynch.
@surreabel
6 ай бұрын
Loved the interpretation and analysis, great work ✨
@hammeredout8146
6 ай бұрын
Loved the comment praise. Great work.
@milfredcummings717
19 күн бұрын
It seems to me that Haneke really liked this movie.
@hammeredout8146
19 күн бұрын
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@auriculus3058
19 күн бұрын
Yeah there are some similarities with Caché
@hammeredout8146
18 күн бұрын
@@auriculus3058 I don't understand what you're talking about.
@auriculus3058
18 күн бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 Never heard of Michael Haneke's movie "Caché"?
@milfredcummings717
17 күн бұрын
@@auriculus3058 That's the first thing that comes to my mind. But there is another thing that might be related. That famous intro from Funny Games. Both films were shot in 1997. That sax scene from Lost Highway, especially the end, reminds me a bit of John Zorn & Naked City. I probably wouldn't have noticed it without those subliminal videotapes.
@DFSDSSDF
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the analysis! the best analysis for the movie. Nadine from Twin Peaks can also be seen as an abstraction of the production team in a cynical way. You will notice that the camera covering the mystery man's eye looks like an eye patch. By the way, does the tattoo of the moon on Fred's hand have a special meaning?
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
"Welcome to the Basement" explains the "moon" tattoo. kzitem.info/news/bejne/0GZmmWyIbXZzn6w
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
As for Nadine, I agree with Rosseter of Twin Perfect that she represents, not an aspect of the crew, but an aspect of the audience--the short sighted people who aren't really "into" the show. Note that she is obsessed with eliminating sound and light. She doesn't want complicated characters, she doesn't want "three dimensional" characters because she cannot see three dimensions.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
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@raghibnadeem2533
Жыл бұрын
Wow, extremely well done analysis!
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Wow, extremely well done comment! Please like, subscribe and share.
@JAMAICADOCK
27 күн бұрын
Watch The Player, and things begin to make sense. The Player is more overt in its art vs commerce Noir satire but Lost Highway gets away with far more due to its obliqueness. Lynch goes far deeper in his savaging of Hollywood sleaziness than Altman, depicting the Dream Factory as a pit of lechers, philistines and glorified hookers. Moreover, Lynch is using Hollywood as a metaphor for America's lost potential, the dream turned into a nightmare. Lynch seems to be channeling The Big Sleep, a noir classic that made little linear sense; a tone poem more than a conventional thriller, a rare instance of art winning out over commerce in Hollywood. A movie that Robert Altman remade in the 1970s running a jaundiced eye over post modern LA.
@landofthesilverpath5823
9 ай бұрын
I think its reincarnation. And is about the illusion of reality we all live in and our souls must repeat over the many incarnations of our lives. Thats one meaning to it. I agree with your theory too however, which is absolutely brilliant I think. I never thought of it as a commentary on thr film industry, but seeing as how Inland Empire and Mulholland Drive are clearly commentaries on thr industry- this makes sense.
@hammeredout8146
9 ай бұрын
Yes. I'm starting to think that all of Lynch's work is self-reflexive.
@billymays1761
19 күн бұрын
Beautiful analysis that gave me a lot to think about. I just watched the movie for the first time and at first I subscribed to the dream/visions theory but then again it felt too on the nose for Lynch, so I had to dig deeper. Between TwinPerfect’s Twin Peaks analysis and this Lost Highway analysis, I am both impressed and frustrated. Impressed by the depth and solid explanations, but frustrated that I never come close to this in my interpretations. Lynch does this thing where I always feel the need to have the movie explained to me by someone smarter than me, but within all the confusion I find real enjoyment and know something’s there, like I have all the pieces but not enough string to link them together. Maybe I just need to train the thinking muscle a bit more often. I also found the movie was extra horny, even for a Lynch flick. I wondered why the sex scenes were so cranked up both in quantity and intensity and your video answered that question perfectly. I don’t know if I’d ever manage on my own to see the meta commentary between Lynch’s detractors, how they see him and Lynch portraying that with the snuff film party sequence. Great catch. Finally, my knees buckled when you presented the overlap sequence at the end. This cemented the whole video as a solid theory. I hope you do more videos on Lynch projects because I enjoy the content, the Twin Peaks videos were also very good.
@hammeredout8146
19 күн бұрын
You might want to see a doctor about those knees. Anyway, I'm making an "Inland Empire" video now.
@tuzonthume
5 ай бұрын
incredible! I can't wait to hear your take on Inland Empire.
@hammeredout8146
5 ай бұрын
That's my next video! Please like, subscribe and share.
@iysil
2 ай бұрын
I’m left speechless
@hammeredout8146
2 ай бұрын
I hope this is meant as a compliment.
@kiramead4133
Жыл бұрын
Excellent work, though, i was hoping to hear your take on Brain Dead, starring Bill Pullman and made 6 years prior. Both films feature strikingly similar elements which I can’t reference here without spoiling.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
I'm familiar with this issue, although I have not seen the movie yet. Maybe I'll address it in a follow up video. Please like, subscribe and share!
@alliebooth1517
6 ай бұрын
Very well-made love the content but you should do "Rabbit's"
@HudzunDunDunDun
11 ай бұрын
great analysis!!
@hammeredout8146
11 ай бұрын
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@drewdaniels9577
17 күн бұрын
Great analysis but honestly would have appreciate spoiler alerts for Twin Peaks 😭
@hammeredout8146
17 күн бұрын
I go by the thirty year rule and when this video came out, the finale for Twin Peaks was thirty-one years old. Sorry 😘
@albertpuppymaster671
2 ай бұрын
Lost highway can be summed up in one statement. It’s a reincarnation thriller.
@AdamFriedberg
Жыл бұрын
Probably doesn't work with your theory but I saw the curtains opening not as leading to backstage but as curtains opening (or used to) in a movie theater when the film starts
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Yes, that's exactly right. The red curtains from a movie theater and from a live theater are kind of mushed together. Please like, subscribe and share!
@mattgilbert7347
10 ай бұрын
Finally, someone else makes the Kiss Me Deadly connection.
@hammeredout8146
10 ай бұрын
It's *possibility*. Honestly, I assume it's a reference to KMD just because I can't think of a better explanation right now.
@di_amon
10 ай бұрын
Sorry I don't buy the idea that the film crew is a good explanation here. The idea that the characters are being affected by the film makers or somewhat being aware that they are on a film is an idea already explored by David Lynch in Twin Peaks and this theory while it works really well for Twin Peaks, it doesn't really work here. There is to much assuming here. Would the film crew movie lights around like that? Maybe? Fred just walks into a dressing room? I dunno there i just to many leaps in nearly all the examples. Would Lynch really reuse an idea like for another movie? I don't think he would I think he would say that idea has been done and he would want to do something else.
@hammeredout8146
10 ай бұрын
This thread runs through all of Lynch's work. It's not just two projects.
@VoxParanoia
7 ай бұрын
Very nice video. I heard the "Pete is a dream" theory sometime before watching the film. After viewing it, I knew it was definitely deeper than that.
@hammeredout8146
7 ай бұрын
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@TruthScopeTV
Жыл бұрын
1997* Film Lost Highway
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
When I wrote the script, IMDb said that there was a screening in December of 1996. I don't know why they changed it, but the 1996 date was correct according to information at the time. It seems like half my sources said 1996 and half said 1997 and, with the new 4K release, everyone agreed to 1997. Still, if that's the *only* mistake, I did pretty well.
@TruthScopeTV
Жыл бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 I hear you and It’s understandable - they filmed Lost Highway between 1995-1996 and finished editing in 1996. So, in that regard it’s fair to say it was completed in 1996, but it’s always been presented as a 1997 film bc it was released in 1997. Like Pulp Fiction being a 1994 film though it was filmed between 9/93 - 11/93. I believe the consensus is the year a film is released is the year you associate with that film and not the year editing was completed (if completion occurs in the year prior to release).
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@TruthScopeTV There was documentation of a screening in 1996 that counted as "the release" and now it's gone! Oh well . . .
@Dan-es2br
Жыл бұрын
oh my god I was so lost after watching the movie, thank you for this.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Check out my videos on "Twin Peaks." Also, please like, subscribe and share.
@Tj11813
Жыл бұрын
@@hammeredout8146any plans to do Mulholland dr
@jamesmary8953
Жыл бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 No one "likes" your video, dude. Quit repeating the same nonsense in almost everyone of your responses. lol
@MaeveWalkerOrchestre
4 ай бұрын
Nice analysis. And yet... the people that imitated Lynch, are making "junk", in a sense, pornographic junk ('cause in a sense, despite a person like Tarantino being great at emulating classics, and spewing so clever dialogue, he has never managed to film moral ambiguity the way Lynch does), so this affair of killing Dick Laurent could also be a cinematic revenge from Lynch over these guys. And such a revenge would be an ugly thing to Lynch, who seems to believe in karmic retribution, which is why the movie loops back. In the song opening and closing song "I'm Deranged", Bowie calls a character the "angel-man" who seems to be linked to death. I've always seen the Mystery Man as a kind of Exterminating Angel (like Ismael in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander), which is a kind of angel so terrifying that I wouldn't want to meet... Anyway, that's food for thought! Cheers!
@rocketattack4819
Жыл бұрын
Good stuff.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
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@drlarrymitchell
3 ай бұрын
Holy shit. I mean, maybe...
@ronaldknox8665
6 ай бұрын
im pretty sure that the opening line "Dick Laurent is dead" was voiced by...Dick Laurent
@hammeredout8146
6 ай бұрын
😯
@rarex50484
16 күн бұрын
"Hammered Out" 4.22K Sept 1 2024
@hammeredout8146
16 күн бұрын
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@larry6155
Жыл бұрын
tkx - in addiction to your analysis - my theory (sorry im not english native): The mistery man, Pete, both Arquette's characters are "mental personas" of Fred. Fred is initiated in some morbid hollywood cult, and also a mk ultra slave. Mr Dick is gay, and Fred IS HIS LOVER, HIS GIGOLO. Fred's mind is fragmented and framed. When he/pete enters at 26 room an see Arquette's red version, he is almost discovers that is HIM beins sodomizated by mr Dick, which is unbearable and his mind blocked it. Which indicates it is when Alice touch her photograph (with dick, andy and renee), and says "thats me", it also broken the hypnosis and Pete/Fred understand that HER ITS HIM. The photograph itself changes when the detectives look it, just Renee being at it. But its is not the real photograph yet. WE DO NOT SEE THE REAL PHOTOGRAPH. The real photograph is with fred between Andy and Mr Dick. At this photo Renee hods an cigarrete. At begginig of the movie Fred also have a cigarrete. Fred also have green eyes. Both, Renee and Fred, are the same person. In a most occult level of fred's mind, Pete and Alice are same person (both have an air of innocence). The sex scenes with Fred/Renee and Pete/Alice are the try of Fred joing the pieces of his mind again.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Hello, Larry. You have quite an imagination.
@hugogutierrez2849
11 ай бұрын
And you don't? haha@@hammeredout8146
@RobRoss
Жыл бұрын
If you attribute most of this film to being a dream state of Fred as he’s being electrocuted, it does explain everything nicely. You get hung up on the detectives saying that Pete’s fingerprints are everywhere as evidence that it’s not a dream. Well, I think that Fred did meet these detectives after he killed his wife. When we the viewers see the scene where the detective punches Fred, this is probably something that actually happened in the real world. But after this, Fred is using these detectives to fill roles in his made-up fantasy world. The scene where they are “investigating” the video stalker did not actually happen - it’s something in his fantasy world. Otherwise, the movie makes no sense. Are you *really* claiming that when Pete disappears and Fred re-appears in the desert, that this *actually* happened in the real world? That makes less sense than thinking that scene is happening in Fred’s mind as he is being electrocuted. Respectfully, I think your interpretation is rather naive.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
Fred met the other two detectives and it happened off camera?
@felixlechatquipue
Жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I think about this channel: a sophisticated logic for a very naive comprehension of David Lynch's work. This meta obsession which started with the Twin Perfect video is interesting to hear because it shows how much some viewers need to solve the mysteries dismissing all the mysticism and the transcendence aspects of a piece of art by using self-referencing keys to decipher something all the time. With this kind of interpretation, there is no more mythology but a perpetual mise en abyme that erases everything that could be considered as the emanation of a spiritual comprehension of the world.
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
@@felixlechatquipue If you want to be "mystified" by Lynch's work, that's your right. Crapping on the rest of us is childish.
@srijansinha5398
9 ай бұрын
Incredible incredible video. Thank you.
@hammeredout8146
9 ай бұрын
Thank *you*. Please like, subscribe and share.
@MC_1993
10 ай бұрын
This would’ve been 10x better with the soundtrack in the background. Maybe I’m delusional and that’s what you did .. but hearing metal playing over lynch seemed odd
@hammeredout8146
10 ай бұрын
I cannot use the actual music from the movie and make money of off the video. I used royalty-free compositions that matched the mood. I did a poll and 80% said they liked this version and didn't want to change the music, so, that's what I went with. I hope you enjoyed the video regardless. Please like, subscribe and share.
@nope5657
8 ай бұрын
This is very well thought out, but at the same time these analysis of Lynch's work as being opaque meta commentary on the medium of TV (Twin Peaks) and film (Lost Highway) just feels...trite.
@hammeredout8146
8 ай бұрын
Okay. Does it merely *feel* trite or can you find some kind of flaw with my reasoning?
@timloss87
Ай бұрын
Fair to say you dont like Quentin Tarantino
@hammeredout8146
Ай бұрын
Yeah, maybe my poor opinion of Tarantino isn't *entirely* relevant to discussing Lost Highway, but there's more insulting stuff I cut out, so, I hope I don't alienate anyone unnecessarily.
@44excalibur
10 ай бұрын
Sorry, but the idea that Quentin Tarantino plagiarized David Lynch's 'Wild at Heart' is complete nonsense. There were those who believed that Romancing the Stone ripped off Raiders of the Lost Ark, until it was revealed that the screenplay had been written in 1979, two years before Raiders of the Lost Ark was released. Quentin Tarantino wrote the script for True Romance in the 1980s, before Wild at Heart had been released in August of 1990, which is why True Romance has so many 80s references. Tarantino gave up on directing True Romance when he chose to direct 1992's Reservoir Dogs instead, and sold his script to Warner Bros. to finance Reservoir Dogs. Any similarities between True Romance and Wild at Heart are superficial.
@hammeredout8146
10 ай бұрын
I'm not saying that Tarantino plagiarized anything. I'm saying that the idea is out there, and it is likely that Lynch felt this way.
@44excalibur
10 ай бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 Yes, I know that's what you meant. I'm saying that Lynch's belief that Tarantino plagiarized him was paranoid, and Lynch could have easily just done some research and leaned that True Romance was written shortly after Blue Velvet had been released.
@hammeredout8146
10 ай бұрын
@@44excalibur Honestly, I'm not interested in adjudicating this matter. I'm just laying out the facts I need to in order to explain my thesis. I find Tarantino's film boring, annoying and pretentious. That to me is more important than whether or not he plagiarized anyone. If you wish to defend Tarantino, in terms of whether or not he's ripping off other artists, you will not get any pushback from me. If you wish to defend the artistic merit of his films, then I will pushback, but this is not the forum.
@@44excalibur So, you dropped the mic when you realized how incredibly unpersuasive it was to flex on a meaningless award?
@TheEpicMrDuderino
Жыл бұрын
Hey mate, did u only change some footage or did u revisit some of ur theories? also i would love to see u doing analysis of "Crash" from Croneberg/Ballard - it has some interessting metaphors and it is kinda prophetic best wishes and keep it up!
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
I swapped out the footage, and made a lot of little changes. The theory, is, like 99% the same.
@AmicaCream
6 ай бұрын
Is there a video out there on the youtubes that highlights the similarities between blue velvet and lost highway?
@hammeredout8146
6 ай бұрын
Not to my knowledge.
@Dale_Blackburn
7 ай бұрын
Can you share the OST that plays here please? Also can you do Mulholland analysis too?
@hammeredout8146
7 ай бұрын
Here is the ultimate Mulholland Drive explainer: kzitem.info/news/bejne/sJ95zHyNbIBkqaQ I will put together the OST for you.
@hammeredout8146
7 ай бұрын
Risian Run Now La Jett Thriller Arms and Sleepers The Pedestrian Risian Big Sky Wolf Magic Uprising Yari Berlin Arms and Sleepers A Thief is a Thief Travis Loafman Transmission Moarn If You Like the Blues Moarn Bang Bang Bang Marscott Don’t Forget Yari Short of Breath Risian Depths Moarn Don’t You Know
@hammeredout8146
7 ай бұрын
Here's a partial playlist.
@Bradleehawkinz
7 ай бұрын
Can u turn that awesome copyright music up a little more? Just loving it while I’m trying to hear your analysis. 🙄
@hammeredout8146
7 ай бұрын
I did a poll and 80%/20% viewers preferred the music. Hey, the music is lower in this upload than the first!
@crapmalls
5 ай бұрын
So it's Spaceballs. Got it
@hammeredout8146
5 ай бұрын
I assume that you're referring to the scene where the characters get a VHS copy of "Spaceballs" and watch it. Well, that was done for comic effect and Lynch did the same thing in a frightening and surreal way.
@crapmalls
5 ай бұрын
@@hammeredout8146 turns out Lynch made elephant man with..... Mel brooks 😯
@fredddddeeee
11 ай бұрын
Your music ruins the review. It totally doesnt fit the mood . Its a shame really
@hammeredout8146
11 ай бұрын
I did a poll and the majority of my subscribers liked the music.
@nutsacksport
2 ай бұрын
I think the mystery man represents the producers who holdsa higher authority while making the director seem to think he's wearing the bigger pants subsequently manipulating the movie outside the landscape of the director. always peeking behind curtains, changing the whole lead and such in the pursuit of the same result, refer to the camera crew as "i" since they are on his payroll and therefore an extension of himself. He is the architect of the lead going astray. and dick laurent is his portrayal of lynch. so lynch had to make a movie so incomprehensible that nobody would bat an eye
@CielBlanche
5 ай бұрын
the joke about greek words from film school doesn't really make this any less of the most film school thing on youtube
@Rryowa
11 ай бұрын
58 minutes of justification for studying to become a film director and hoaxes
@kurokihollow4284
Жыл бұрын
An inland empire vid from you would be legendary ✨
@hammeredout8146
Жыл бұрын
It's on my list.
@Stratmanable
7 ай бұрын
Nobody, and I mean nobody, needs Lost Highway explained. In fact, explaining his films is an anathema to the very reason Lynch has stated why he makes art.
@hammeredout8146
7 ай бұрын
Well, somebody's Word-Of-The-Day calendar landed on "anathema" today.
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