EXPERIMENT. SCREEN. SENSATION Post:13 Film Review lost highway-David lynch(sound)

introductionAfter a strange gathering, a jazz saxophone player was murdered to murder his wife. And then he was sent to prison, he inexplicably became a young mechanic and began a new life.

 

The most influential thing about this film is the use of his sound effects, which is very attractive to me. In this movie, it was evident that the director has a very personal style. He cleverly uses sound effects to create a horrible and mysterious atmosphere for the film.

One of the scenes was that Peter received a call from Alice. The director only uses human voices and a weird background for sound processing. On the one hand, Peter’s voice gradually changed from excited to frustrated, which could be seen from Peter only used one or two words as the answer when communicating with Alice. Moreover, the place where Alice calls seems to be in a mysterious corner. Visually, the audience only sees Alice’s mouth from a circle, which adds mystery to Alice’s identity. And the fact that she speaks so quietly highlights the secrecy of the conversation.

At the end of the scene, Peter went to the hotel that was previously agreed. This scene, for the performance of the sound, the director magnified some environmental sounds, similar to the moving music of insects, which is like Peter’s inner world. He is noisy and full of fear. Visually, Alice’s head appeared intermittently on the screen, and there was some ghosting, showing that Peter was excited at the time. These are very intuitive and let the audience feel that the impact of hearing is more significant than the visual.

 

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