The posters on IMDB aren't representative of the majority of David Lynch fans. There are far too many threads asking what things mean for my liking, and that misses the point completely. If people can't invest time in a DL film and have to be told what everything means, what are they really getting from it anyway? They tend to be the same people who refer to DL films as "weird".

There isn't one interpretation of Lost Highway - or any of DL's films for that matter. I think most long-term DL fans realise it's not about cracking some secret code so much as assembling the pieces in a way that makes sense to you. I know what it means to me, but other people might not agree.

I am getting sick of people referring to things as "weird" all the time.

We were watching Amelie in school a few days ago and all this kid kept on saying was "This is so weird". It's like some people just can't deal with anything that is out of the ordinary

For me Lost Highway was a major shock when I saw it for the first time but I did not find it confusing - on the contrary, it was so painfully clear and striking what was what in the film... frightfully clear considering how close to me this film appeared to be!

But then on this message board I found that some people understood it quite differently from me and more than differently - oppositely! Now that was confusing alright

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"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

this post has spoilers, just in case you've wandered in here and haven't traveled the Lost Highway   

Thanks TITG, that's an interesting take on Dick. Were you around when we had a discussion on the "order of the murders" committed by Fred Madison. It was pretty interesting. I can see how one could look at Dick that way. After all, Dick is with the Mystery Man when he calls Pete and later it looked like the Mystery Man kills Dick (even though I believe it is Fred killing him and with the disappearance of the Mystery Man, the last of Fred's repressed memories are remembered)Fred is psychologically killing off his alter-egos or whatever you want to call them and now has to face who he is and what he's done, but he's not able to do it and tries to escape by fugue-ing out again at the end (to me at the end he's getting electrocuted in Da Chair and the whole movie is him struggling with what he's done, but he is able to confront his deeds before his execution). Nice call.         

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

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The first time I watched LH I was with some friends of mine on a sofa. We watched films all night long (an usual thing in our company of true cinema lovers), but the only one I remember was LH. Two friends of mine got asleep about at three A.M., just a little before the film started. And so it was a surreal atmosphere, darkness all around, people sleeping, and me and my best friend awake, with our eyes wide open fixing the tv screen...And that strange sensation that Viktor Sklovskij better called "estrangement".

I remember there was no need to understand any plot at all. When the film ended, we took the dvd off and said in chorus: "now it's time to go to bed."

Maybe you take that for granted anyway, but the basic premise of Lost Highway is not complicated at all: Someone who´s sentenced to death imagines he´s someone else After realizing that his fantasy allows him no real escape, the protagonist falls back to his starting point.
 

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I got my greasy mitts on a press kit the same week the movie came to my town. It says it, right there, from the man himself, "psychogenic fugue."   You look that up on the internet, all becomes clear.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper