Blue Velvet (1986)

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Blue Velvet

Depraved, eccentric nonesense filmed and told in Lynch's trademark virtuoso visual style and control. Dennis Hopper raises the bar for the term Over the top so high he gives it an entirely new meaning. Hopper is everyones nightmare figure amplified. Don't look for a plot here, there isn't one. There is also little meaning to everything that happens, but of course people (and especially crazy fans of the manic Lynch) will find ways to justify everything. Lynch is trying to tell us every household is twisted, perverted and sick behind their picket fenced lives. About the evil that men are capable of, and then some. Really just a detective story told in a twisted, shocking manner. Laura Dern is pretty for once. A case of Hardy boys detective story gone bad....very bad. Wordly innocence cannot last for very long in this (and Lynch's world) and he has some fun at the expense of rape scenes, 50's TV talk etc. Some may find the material campy and funny, but to me it seemed like bad satire and a sorry excuse to humiliate characters on screen. Lynch was crazier and better in the spectacularly dark Lost Highway.

Rating: 3.5/5

[X.]

I'll fuck anything that moves! - Frank Booth

"Blue Velvet" is like dreaming a lucid nightmare. I love it!

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I'll fuck anything that moves! - Frank Booth

Interesting scene Ak. Your early warning couldn't prepare me for what came after it. But it made sense while watching. It was just a transition in time that Lynch did with a little fun (and twist). I'd like the fucker to explain his movies once in awhile, not because I don't get them, but because I don't think the man knows that the hell he's making. They are all vivid, visual feasts but on the surface, at least while being watched, feel disconnected and like utter nonesense. I just love how critics take apart every scene and give it meaning - the theory of deconstruction is strongest when applied to Lynch's films.

[madali]

Lynch's movies are like waking up from a good dream, and have someone explain the dream to know, and its meaning.

But thats not what makes the dream pleasant. Its not the hidden meanings, but the feel of it.