... The camera then zooms in on a combine harvester in an enormous field; this image is also repeated throughout the film. The camera then moves along the track of the combine harvester and then dissolves into an aerial shot of a small mid-western town. Lynch uses the edit technique of dissolving scenes to incorporate most of the scenes together throughout the film. The music fades to silence as the camera slowly bring us from space, down to meet the first character. Simply this can be seen as just a road movie, but it is much more. All the conventions of a road movie appear in it. The long shots of the road, shots of the wheels spinning and the many characters he meets and helps along the way but there are many themes that appear in the film which evoke emotion and make this film more than just a road movie. ...

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