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In Reply to: No More Blue Velvet For Me!! posted by Bolt on January 24, 2005 at 07:01:35:
I've always felt that Blue Velvet was an interesting and very entertaining movie, but I could never get behind it as a serious piece of art- one likely to stand the test of time. Eraserhead is the poney to bet on in that race, I think.I remember back when Blue Velvet came out, anything in film or art or theater that sent up dopey American middle class life and iconography from the fifties, was automatically praised for its penetrating, relavatory insight, hipness, and wit in a blind knee-jerk reaction.
Slap a ridiculous bit of fifties era cut-out ad art onto a collage, or shoot a video sending up Leave it to Beaver, and your an instant "artist", regardless of what you've actually made. It was a machine. And funny as the fifties are, I think the "product" that came out of this machine is not going to date well.Another flick, by no means unflawed, and perhaps not as entertaining, but which covers much of the same territory as Blue Velvet, is Eyes Wide Shut. Because it doesn't stoop to trendiness, (except maybe in its choice of lead actors), and instead focuses on the universal human condition, it will stand the test of time better.
At the least, I think the two movies would make a great double bill at a revival house near you.
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