Lynch then spent the next couple of years doing tv. Twin Peaks was a cult tv program that centered around the question, "Who killed Laura Palmer?" When the show was cancelled after two seasons, Lynch began work on the movie that is a prequel to the tv series. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me gives us a look at Laura before her plastic wrapped body was found on the tv show. An honors high school student, Laura was hiding a dark secret. To support her cocaine habit, she was prostituting herself. She has been abused since she was a child by her father's alter ego, Bob. When her father finds out what she is up to, he transforms into Bob and no one is safe from his fury. Another collection of offbeat characters doing bizzare, unexplainable things.
"Unfolding with the logic of a dream, which can be interpreted but never explained, LOST HIGHWAY is puncutated by a series of occurances that simply can't have occurred. One man turns into another; a woman who may be dead seduces the man who might have killed her; a man phones himself and--inexplicably--is at the other end of the line to receive his own call." This quotation from the Lost Highway press kit shows that the studio did not have any idea what this film is about either. They can't even get the story right. There is no way to explain this film. It has to be seen to be believed. The basic story begins with a man who thinks his wife may be cheating on him. He finds himself accused of and convicted of her murder. While sitting on death row, he turns into, morphs, changes (your pick) a much younger, completely different man. The authorities, unable to explain this, release the young man. This mechanic returns home to his parents and work. He is seduced by a gangster's girlfriend who is identical to the woman, except for a change in hair color, that was murdered at the beginning of the film. Is she the same woman? A twin? She leads this young mechanic into a plot of murder and theft.
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