Lost Highway

Annoyingly, this film wouldn't play in my regular 4k player as that device kept trying to load the Dolby Vision encoding and I don't think the Criterion version came in Dolby.

About 15 minutes into this film, I started to wonder if this was being told by a narrator who's unreliability was due to schizophrenia. This theory was thrown out the window roughly when the POV switched due to how other characters reacted. And by the end I'd given up trying to analyze and just let the surreal time loop of the twinned narratives (well, multiple twinned narratives) wash over me.

Immediately after finishing this, I ruined by youtube algorithm by checking out Lynch interviews on the film, but having sat with it for a night, I'm fairly certain that Fred's dislike of video, paired with the spectacle around the OJ trial, made this a meditation on reality (even recorded reality) being shaped by our POV. After all, even video has a POV.

I suspect my ratings for this one will increase with repeated viewings.