10 Movies That Were Designed To Mess With Your Head
2. Lost Highway
David Lynch is the king of confusion. No other filmmaker’s body of work is simultaneously so brilliant and yet so frustrating to grasp.
Such is the case with Lost Highway; in effect another body double movie, but one that makes previous entries on this list look like Freaky Friday.
What starts out as an admittedly weird psychological thriller gets even stranger at the half way mark, as the movie completely shifts directions. Up until that point, the viewer follows a man called Fred, who gets convicted of murdering his own wife. When he’s sent to jail, however, the prison guards discover that he is now a mechanic called Pete, with a completely different life and face.
The two stories intertwine, contrast and run parallel to one another, but they never really co-exist. It’s never really explained why Fred and Pete are the same, or how the series of events comes to be. It’s designed to make you extrapolate meaning from what you are seeing, rather than make you understand the mechanics and logic behind it.
Lost Highway is a tough watch though, a mood piece through and through that poses a lot more questions than it ultimately answers.