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Pete being friends with Mr. Eddy?

posted 4 years ago by motorcycledriveb (303)
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Haven't seen people discuss this.

So, Pete is an auto mechanic and fixes up Mr. Eddy's car. They are friends, and Pete is afraid of Mr. Eddy after the tailgating incident. Ironic, since Pete is actually Fred? And Fred kills Mr. Eddy in the end of the movie.

What's also ironic is that Mr. Eddy calls the Mystery Man a friend of his, but then the Mystery Man also betrays Mr. Eddy at the end by shooting him.

I reckon from Pete's POV, it is okay to kill Mr. Eddy, since he thinks that he's saving Alice from him. But from Fred's POV, Alice likes the lifestyle that Mr. Eddy has given her.

[–] ZentralWelt (110) 4 years ago

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[–] motorcycledriveb (303) 4 years ago

Yes, I think it's very fitting that Pete is a friend and car attendant to Mr. Eddy. Since Renee betrays Fred - in Fred's mind, he also wanted to make a betrayal against the antagonist or instigator of what caused his pain. Eye for an eye, if you will. Pete betraying Mr. Eddy is an equivalent pay back.

When Fred first meets the Mystery Man, MM's eyes never blink. The Mystery Man is also associated with cameras and videotapes - which are like, objective reality.

Lost Highway very much sums up the main ideas of the Old Testament: the story of Beer-Sheba in Genesis chapters 21, 22, and 26. Abraham and Isaac are akin to Fred and Pete, if you will. The Philistines are exactly like Mr. Eddy and the Mystery Man. The "Sotah" ritual in Numbers 5 is even specifically about a man's wife cheating on him with another man. The breaking of oaths and the fickleness of marriage/loyalties is what underlines our reality, sometimes.

[–] ZentralWelt (110) 4 years ago

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