Originally posted by svsg:
Capo, since you attach a higher meaning to the story than what is obvious, I would like to know if higher-than-average nudity in the movie was of any significance? I would want you to review on that aspect too, it doesn't seem like it was thrown in for fun, or was it?
I've been coming back to this all day. Here goes...
Lynch has been noted, even criticised, for confronting his audiences with scenes of provocative sex. The first time I watched
Blue Velvet, I rendered it uncomfortable viewing, needlessly so.
I think with
Lost Highway, well aware of the sex appeal of Patricia Arquette, the director has her in full nudity to make it seem more dreamlike - or rather, more like a man's fantasy. Hence the extreme slow-motion in the early sex scene. She is, essentially, a seductive mother, or motherly seductress to these two hapless men. Yet, even in these guys' dreams, they still have problems when it comes down to sex. Sex is never too far away from desire, be that desire the want to become somebody else, or be in love with someone else, or whatever. Sex and violence often overlap. In a way, violence is an extreme act of eroticism.
What do you think?
