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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2024
- The Epic Film Challenge II
#280 - Blue Velvet (1986)
Dir. David Lynch
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper
The two hundred and eightieth installment of the Epic Film Challenge II, David Lynch's psycho-sexual drama, Blue Velvet.
October 2020
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David Lynch is my favourite director. He just taps into the subconscious and conjoures up moods that feel familiar but you can't put your finger on why. Loved hearing both your discussions
I do love Blue Velvet although it is not my favourite David Lynch film and he is one of my favourite directors as well, but I can very much imagine this being totally uncomfortable as a viewing experience. I remember watching Wild at Heart with an old girlfriend of mine and she got really tense and started screaming at the TV when Willem Dafoe did all that nasty stuff. I do think Blue Velvet is a landmark film though and I re-watch it every so often, I would however say that Muholland Dr. is peak Lynch for me and depending on my mood or the day of the week you ask me the greatest film I've ever seen. And I do appreciate the shout out you gave to Jack Nance, he is so wonderfully awkward and creepy in this and what a strange person in real life he was as well.
This movie disturbed me at 14 when I rented it! Frank gave me a few bad dreams
Never has a opening showed a dark underbelly into the midst of a normal neighbourhood. Striking.
Sounds great. Are you going to still be reviewing all the other David Lynch films?
i have to admit that tho i appreciate the occasional David Lynch film every now and again, Blue Velvet was just waaaaayyy to sexiest and mysoginist for me. i saw it a month ago in theater (there was a screening) and i had a hard time seating through. i did love the vibe and the cinematography, but the story and characters were just too women-hating for me...
David Lynch doesn't like people. He mocks them. Look at his gay character in DUNE (covered in bursting boils while torturing young boys). Sex is always weird, degrading and perverted in a Lynch movie. Blue Velvet is a sexist melodrama that mocks its audience. (That fire truck going by in the opening is Lynch giving the audience the finger. It says I'm not serious at all and I am laughing at you.) Blue Velvet is not as bad as Mulholland Drive in its pure sexism and casual misogyny, but it is nowhere near as enlightened or profound as so many pretend it to be.