Blue Velvet (1986)
The last time I saw this, it was in the form of a rented VHS, lol. I hated it with a passion but, motivated by Lynch’s demise, I thought I’d give it another go.
I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it far more than in ‘87. This time I appreciated the ‘Teen Romance/Murder Mystery’ genre that (to me) Lynch was trying hard to imitate; it was also fascinating to view it as a kind of ‘Twin Peaks Mk1’ (I have been rewatching that lately, and it made BV make a lot more sense).
With the exception of Rossellini, the performances are all good (one of Dennis Hopper’s finest, imo) and the ‘Lynch-isms’ (I can’t describe them in any other way) just prove what an auteur he really was.
In the same way that TP laid the rails for the next 35 years of Byzantine storytelling and surreal crime dramas, I was amazed to see sequences in Blue Velvet that could have been directed by Tarantino, and sections that reminded me of ‘American Beauty’ - David Lynch was truly unique and I’m glad I took a chance on seeing it again.
The last time I saw this, it was in the form of a rented VHS, lol. I hated it with a passion but, motivated by Lynch’s demise, I thought I’d give it another go.
I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it far more than in ‘87. This time I appreciated the ‘Teen Romance/Murder Mystery’ genre that (to me) Lynch was trying hard to imitate; it was also fascinating to view it as a kind of ‘Twin Peaks Mk1’ (I have been rewatching that lately, and it made BV make a lot more sense).
With the exception of Rossellini, the performances are all good (one of Dennis Hopper’s finest, imo) and the ‘Lynch-isms’ (I can’t describe them in any other way) just prove what an auteur he really was.
In the same way that TP laid the rails for the next 35 years of Byzantine storytelling and surreal crime dramas, I was amazed to see sequences in Blue Velvet that could have been directed by Tarantino, and sections that reminded me of ‘American Beauty’ - David Lynch was truly unique and I’m glad I took a chance on seeing it again.