Time For A(nother) Deconstruction of David Lynch’s Lost Highway [SPOILERS?]

If you’ve seen Lost Highway (1997) I guarantee you’ve not thought of most of what is to follow. If you haven’t seen Lost Highway, the spoilers won’t diminish your enjoyment, it’s 2021 and Lost Highway will now be fully understandable to a large audience. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ͡° )

Mobile readers: landscape for a better look at the GIFs (there is no more landscape medium is uploaded or rather upgraded. Also, the GIFs probably won’t load, great job team!!)

The ground of the ground. If cars are figures, the road is the ground. When does the ground become figure? Let’s pop this can open shall we?

Disembodied. A loss of human scale. The voice on the other side of the intercom, who is it, what is it? It’s acoustic, minus identity, minus identity due to the fact that it’s only a voice, according to Marshall McLuhan, if you don’t have a body, you have no identity and are no longer subject to Natural Law….or are You?

Unedited version, one of McLuhan’s last magazine articles: Living At The Speed of Light (1979) MacLeans Jan. 7/80 (courtesy of The McLuhan Institute) notice the last word ‘arrange-’….

The ‘highway’, the ground that enables figures to scurry upon it, hither, thither, to and…