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I often have difficulty with Lynch's films, but this time I think there's really lots more going on that what I can figure. I get the love/sex/violence confusion part, I think, pretty standard S&M stuff presented subtly. I was fine for the beginning of the film, but once we got to the hero brought to the place of the kidnappers, I lost it. Thanks. Maybe I'm just looking for too much, and there's not really much more, just a watered-down presentation of the theme for American audiences??? I found this movie kinda creepy for reasons I'm not sure of, it's still bugging me a few days after I saw it, and maybe that's its purpose.
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I saw Blue Velvet in '86 when it came out. I had not seen a Lynch film before and was totally blown away. The theatre had 10 people at the beginning. At the end, there was me and two others. It was really trippy and violent for the time. TIME magazine went on about it.I became an instant Lynch fan and, as a result of seeing most everything, I find BV is the most understandable, chronological, plot-oriented of his movies. You wanted weirdness, try ERASERHEAD. I get nauseous with morbid fascination when I see it.
IMO it is in The Straight Story, which I also think is his most straight-forward film.I am referring to the opening credits: "DISNEY Presents" ... "A David Lynch film" ... And the fact that it's rated "G".
and understandable lynch film...even more than BV
although it's been a while since I saw BV too...
mp
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all copies in the Toronto area have vanished recently. Nobody knows why, but nobody sells them anymore. The VHS sells for ~US80 here now...forget that! I'm told the DVD's should be coming back soon (re-packaged??). I notice Blue Velvet was recently slightly re-packaged here, and now it's everywhere, whereas a month ago you couldn't find it.
:-))
"You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can not bomb the world to peace"
The movie opens with beautiful shots of Small Town USA, and then the camera takes us under the grass to show the nasty bugs that exist under the impossibly beautiful town. This theme stood out the most to me watching the film - is that what you mean in your comment about "love/sex/violence"?I don't you should necessarily look for an "explanation" in a movie like this. It's not a whodunit. Well, it is ... but figuring out whodunit is not the point of the film. ;-) I think the best thing to do is to watch it again and see what hits you then.
You know, film critic Roger Ebert really hated this film. You can find his review of Blue Velvet at www.suntimes.com/ebert
Agree w'ja TA, the travel brochures never tell you about the shallow graves or who gets beaten in the alleyways (or why)
Lynch takes a look under the rug in the "perfect small town" and finds Dennis Hopper at his most screen crazy self
Loved Laura Dern in that too, don't know how any critic could slam it, it's very well acted and original, one of Lynchs better efforts
As Margaret Thatcher once said "The veneer of civilisation is terribly thin..." I think that's what Lynchs take is with this film
Eric
Tokyo
In retrospect, BV my Lynch fave, reversing order with WAH, never
tried to make great sense of any Lynch film, however, Lost Highway
completely lost me. BV came across subliminally implausible to me
as incredible so much Big City-type sheenanigans going in such a pedestrian
small town, something I chose to ignore,although, I can see how Lynch
would use the contrast for great effect, like you say, though, good
to great performances, highly original. If you´re interested in
seeing my previous comments on Lynch´s films, go to www.imdb.com
(Walt Whizzer) or this forum´s archives. - AH
< < "The veneer of civilisation is terribly thin..."Yes, that's probably a good enough theme. Some disjointed thoughts: I couldn't figure out what the detective (Dern's "father") was about, and how I got the impression he was involved with the "crime". I couldn't figure out if the crime was gratefully participated in by all sides, and if so then it's not really a crime. I couldn't figure out the meaning of the boy having lesbian (my impression again) parents. Or the bloody robins. I'll obviously have to watch it a few more times. Hopper was great, totally creepy. Dern's character was the only one that seemed straight and "normal". Siskel liked the movie, Ebert didn't, I did watch the short excerpt of their review on the disc, kinda surprised they put it there since Ebert was so negative.
are typical of Lynchs films; it keeps the audience on their toes and keeps things interesting; don't expect logical conclusions or happy endings with this director. Mulholland Drive is even more fantastic a fantasy with even more unanswered questions and loose(r) ends
Not that I'm complaining...
Eric
Tokyo
Checked one of my (few) bird books. Robins are typically "loners" among their own type and like to hide and generally be unobservable/unintrusive. They apparently like to frequent swamps and bogs. That seems to metaphorically fit...
she was also in wild at heart. She is such a seemingly good person, that it disturbs or upsets your equilibrium to see her in such a synthetically sleazy/sureal environment...one which Lynch is best at. And unerving you with the unexpected actors/roles works to his advantage.mp
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