Dream Interpretation of the Film Lost Highway Essay -- Lost Highway Mo

imagine Interpretation of the Film Lost Highway Cop Do you own a video camera? Renee No. Fred hates them. Fred I like to look upon things my own way. Cop What do you mean by that? Fred How I remembered them. not necessarily the way they happened. A dream can mean everything, or it can mean nothing. According to Freud, if we take its contents seriously, it has the potential to unwrap things about ourselves that we scarcely believe could be true. But often the come apart oddness of much(prenominal) a vision damages its credibility, and one is left over(p) wondering how something so disjointed could contain insight of any value. such is the dilemma with Lost Highway, a movie seemingly bent on walking its attestants down one path, and then, when they begin to understand the genius of it all, to abruptly change course and begin anew. Hitchcocks MacGuffin - the term he coined to revive to the app bent plot of a story, which is merely a cover for the underlying, much important thread - is both irrelevant and vital in this video. The viewer will watch what is happening, trying to get a sense of the plot, solely the plot, really, is unimportant. The very nature of plot demands a sense of linearity, and this movie lacks such a characteristic. However, the plot is also the near important aspect of the film, because, ultimately, to the highest degree everything each character does seems to be part of a dream in the mind of the central character, Fred Madison. Consequently, what happens is not merely manifest content to be brushed aside. Hidden within it is the latent content which will touch the viewer an understanding of what is happening in the mind of this man. How do we cheat it is a dream and not merely poor story-telling? How do we know... ...on to decimal point complements this approach quite well. In either case, the effect works. One of the most difficult tasks in a movie is to let the viewer indoors the mind of one of its char acters. This is much easier in literature, which can employ the faculties of report and omniscience. In a film with no such leisure, a music director must rely on images and dialogue alone to accomplish this feat. To visually represent the emotions of a character can only be well-executed in a few distinct ways. One such, effective way is to film the dreams and fantasies occurring in the mind of that character. Lynchs approach works, and Freds emotional and psychical states of being are clear, if the viewer can just look past the manifest to attain the rich, latent content buried beneath.BibliographyGay, Peter, ed. The Freud Reader. New York W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1989.