"In Lost Highway, Fred suspects that Renee’s previous life involved ..some secret … place of …..."

“In Lost Highway, Fred suspects that Renee’s previous life involved ..some secret … place of … obscene enjoyment. ..Fred, … sentenced to death for the murder … of Renee, … transforms into another person (Pete) in his prison cell.”

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..A bizarre shift from the dull … existence of the impotent husband … to the exciting and dangerous life of ..Pete who is seduced by the ..femme fatale reincarnation of Renee. ..This shift … represents Fred’s psychotic hallucination … of himself as a virile lover, … after the slaughter of his wife

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK

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