It’s no secret that David Lynch holds Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO as one of his favorite and most influential films.
MULHOLLAND DRIVE, for all intents and purposes, is a VERTIGO remake in which the woman dupes herself.
LOST HIGHWAY could be described the same way but with the woman in control, and intentionally cruel.
But perhaps nowhere is the pull of VERTIGO more evident in the canon of Lynch than in the two-part finale of TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, which not only expands to the Nth degree upon the notions of duality VERTIGO toys with, but draws several visual parallels to Hitch’s masterpiece, as seen above.
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