Thanks to Dejan for his detailed, thoughtful and helpful comment on this
discussion. I am still not convinced but I am moved to a position to
acknowledge the importance of a theoretical concept for a filmmaker. The
film would be wholly different without Lynch's knowledge of a topological
model. I didn't know that Lynch lives that much under the spell of Lacan and
Zizek. The knowledge gained from this discussion changes my view of the film
*Lost Highway*. So I am very grateful for this discussion, because a learned
a lot. But I still don't think that we have to think of this relation
between topological concept and the film's narration as one of
determination. My disagreement with some of the interpretations was based on
my being repelled by the emphasis on one model of interpretation, like no
other interpretation would be possible.
Dejan misunderstood me in one point. I don't think that films are boring
when being analyzed. Good film gain much from interpretation and from the
theories applied to them. But I deny that bad films become better with
theory (they may become more accessible, but that's something else). I
admire lots of Zizeks thoughts, but I dislike his approach, which becomes
apparent in the following quotation (though I know, that it is meant as a
provocation, full of ironies):
*For me, life exists only insofar as I can theorize it [...] I can be bored
to death by a movie, but if you give me a good theory, I will gladly erase
the past in an Orwellian fashion and claim that I have always enjoyed it!*
(I am not sure whether he refers to live or to movies at the end of this
remark, so I could be wrong in my judgment of it)
And I still find it significant, that I like *Mulholland Drive* more than
*Lost Highway* (It would afford an extensive reading of both films to
communicate this difference in a significant way...I wish I could offer it
and I think it would be worthful, but with my bad command of this language
it would take me too long).
Herbert.
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