Lost Highway - Final Project Inspiration

Lost Highway is another film that has inspired the idea for our final film. The David Lynch masterpiece has the character of Fred Madison being incredibly paranoid about the people around him, especially his wife who he suspects is being unfaithful. The people around him such as the Mystery Man, Andy, and the mythical Dick Laurent make him noticably uncomfortable and he has a problem with them at the mere mention of them.

As a result of his paranoia, he envisions a fantasy world for himself, something he desires to escape the reality of his actual life. In this world he is a renewed character, and the events that happen around are bizarre.

This seems to ring true with my idea for the final project with Chesters wanting to escape out of the situation he is in because of his feelings towards the fellow passengers. In Lost Highway Fred/Pete's fantasy world ends up as a dystopia, to some extent. This will be similar in the final film as it will become evident that the imaginary worlds are in fact more like nightmares.