January 17th 2025

[zombie]

well now i want to go with lost highway tonight, so i can join in on the discussion with a fresh re-watch.

[Tiggnutz]

well now i want to go with lost highway tonight, so i can join in on the discussion with a fresh re-watch.

Do it. I need to rewatch Mulholland too

[Jason]

I'm older than Balthazar Getty that's bullshit man

I said the same thing when I found out I was older than Jason. His love of old shit pre-dates dirt. I was like I'll be god damned.

Bob Uecker and David Lynch die on the same day. You guys all go around having David Lynch marathons while I listen to Bob Uecker MLB broadcasts on the radio.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

I'm older than Balthazar Getty that's bullshit man

I said the same thing when I found out I was older than Jason. His love of old shit pre-dates dirt. I was like I'll be god damned.

Bob Uecker and David Lynch die on the same day. You guys all go around having David Lynch marathons while I listen to Bob Uecker MLB broadcasts on the radio.

I was considering slipping in Major League this weekend

[zombie]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

still spoilers. don't read!



i think it's something else. the police mention finding getty's character's fingerprints. and mention bill pullmn's character by name in the same scene, in a scene where neither bill pullman or balthazar getty is present. i don't know what it is for sure, but doesn't feel like it's just a way to cope with his guilt to me. unless you take the whole movie to be him "remembering things the way he wants to, and not necessarily the way they actually happen". but then the murder may not have even happened by that logic. who was showing him the tapes in the first place? i really like it, but i don't really get it at the same time.

[Headhunter]

Patricia Arquette was a baddieeeeee

[zombie]

Patricia Arquette was a baddieeeeee

they do associate blake and arquette together early on in the movie. so maybe you're onto something.

[Headhunter]

Patricia Arquette was a baddieeeeee

they do associate blake and arquette together early on in the movie. so maybe you're onto something.

Oh I just meant she’s fine as hell in this movie. I have like 10 minutes left

[zombie]

Patricia Arquette was a baddieeeeee

they do associate blake and arquette together early on in the movie. so maybe you're onto something.

Oh I just meant she’s fine as hell in this movie. I have like 10 minutes left

well. that's something too. and agreed.

[Jason]

Head with the gen z terminology confusing us all. I'm like three generations away

[Headhunter]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

[zombie]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

if you take the "nothing in the film actually happened" thing, you can draw that line anywhere you want to, arbitrarily.

[Headhunter]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

if you take the "nothing in the film actually happened" thing, you can draw that line anywhere you want to, arbitrarily.

Okay well I am open to hearing your theories. I thought “I like to remember things my own way, not necessarily the way they happened” was pretty informative.

[Jason]

Just deleted a bot before it could even make a post. Underrated feeling.

[Tiggnutz]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

It looks like he killed her in reality because he thought she was cheating on him that's why in his imagination she's always doing something dirty or sexual like cheating, filming porn, leading him down the wrong road.

[Tiggnutz]

And Patricia Arquette looked incredible in that movie

[zombie]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

if you take the "nothing in the film actually happened" thing, you can draw that line anywhere you want to, arbitrarily.

Okay well I am open to hearing your theories. I thought “I like to remember things my own way, not necessarily the way they happened” was pretty informative.

i think the admission does matter. but if it is all meant to be in his head, i want to know why he thought up those things specifically. the movie happened the way it did for a reason, whether it was all in his head or certain parts of it were. why start the film with something that connected to the end of the movie? what if the murder he is in jail for was the one we learn about that is referenced at the start? i want to make sense of the film more than just it was all in his head, that's all.

[Tiggnutz]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

It looks like he killed her in reality because he thought she was cheating on him that's why in his imagination she's always doing something dirty or sexual like cheating, filming porn, leading him down the wrong road.

Also is Loggia being powerful and vindictive another manifestation of his personality?

[zombie]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

if you take the "nothing in the film actually happened" thing, you can draw that line anywhere you want to, arbitrarily.

Okay well I am open to hearing your theories. I thought “I like to remember things my own way, not necessarily the way they happened” was pretty informative.

i think the admission does matter. but if it is all meant to be in his head, i want to know why he thought up those things specifically. the movie happened the way it did for a reason, whether it was all in his head or certain parts of it were. why start the film with something that connected to the end of the movie? what if the murder he is in jail for was the one we learn about that is referenced at the start? i want to make sense of the film more than just it was all in his head, that's all.

also, i just heard an explanation that views the film as lynch's commentary on film, film characters, filmmakers, and audience. i don't know that i agree with that, but it is interesting to try to view it that way.

[Headhunter]

LOST HIGHWAY SPOILER stop reading if you haven't seen it.


So Bill did kill his wife and to deal with it he created Balthazar Getty in his mind. He is locked up on death row in reality and in the last scene he gets electrocuted in the chair. He wants to be the Balthazar character in his imagination but he really is the Robert Blake guy. Thoughts

I think this is all right. I also think that almost nothing that happens in this movie actually occurs outside of the murder and his time in prison, everything is just “the way he wants to remember things” with Robert Blake showing up to represent his conscience and the videotapes are these inescapable reminders of what he did. And then the second half is his weird fantasy of being Balthazar.

if you take the "nothing in the film actually happened" thing, you can draw that line anywhere you want to, arbitrarily.

Okay well I am open to hearing your theories. I thought “I like to remember things my own way, not necessarily the way they happened” was pretty informative.

i think the admission does matter. but if it is all meant to be in his head, i want to know why he thought up those things specifically. the movie happened the way it did for a reason, whether it was all in his head or certain parts of it were. why start the film with something that connected to the end of the movie? what if the murder he is in jail for was the one we learn about that is referenced at the start? i want to make sense of the film more than just it was all in his head, that's all.

But I don’t think it is all in his head. The murder clearly happened.