How I understood it was: at the beginning of the movie the guy says that he likes to remember things his way, not how they actually happened, that suggests that his story is unreliable.
He kills is wife because she was cheating and gets caught and sentenced to death.
He then hallucinates a delusion where he actually is an entirely different guy (he turns into another person while in the cell and gets released) with some parallels with the true story. This guy is cooler, a prodigy mechanic, a womanizer, and his rival is an insane mobster. In his delusion he kills a pimp who worked for the mobster and that’s how the police find him and chase after him. In the final scene he is running away driving in the night, but from his point of view we see the sparks from the electric chair, suggesting he never left the cell.
I might need a rewatch, but I don’t think that was what happened in ‘Lost Highway’.
Check out ‘Inland Empire’ for hardcore Lynchean shenanigans.
How I understood it was: at the beginning of the movie the guy says that he likes to remember things his way, not how they actually happened, that suggests that his story is unreliable. He kills is wife because she was cheating and gets caught and sentenced to death. He then hallucinates a delusion where he actually is an entirely different guy (he turns into another person while in the cell and gets released) with some parallels with the true story. This guy is cooler, a prodigy mechanic, a womanizer, and his rival is an insane mobster. In his delusion he kills a pimp who worked for the mobster and that’s how the police find him and chase after him. In the final scene he is running away driving in the night, but from his point of view we see the sparks from the electric chair, suggesting he never left the cell.