I didn’t like the song “Blue Velvet” when it came out. It’s not rock ’n’ roll, and it came out during the birth of rock ’n’ roll and that’s where the power was. “Blue Velvet” was schmaltzy and didn’t do a thing for me. Then I heard it one night, and it married with green lawns at night and a woman’s red lips seen through a car window—there was some kind of bright light hitting this white face and these red lips. Those two things, and also the words “and I still can see blue velvet through my tears.” These things got me going and it all married together.
-DAVID LYNCH
you know when you go back to the place where you grew up, and its lost the strange magic it had when you were a kid? or maybe that magic is still there in parts, but there's a kind of darkness you were never old enough to notice before? that feeling is this movie.
when i was a kid, i was a bit of a Clepto. i would steal shit like packs of gum, a root beer float, drinks from grocery stores, headphones, and all kinds of dumb shit. more often than not the items were mundane, buts there's a sort of excitement you get from getting away with something your not allowed to do. its and adrenaline rush of kid like excitement, but its nothing compared to the overwhelming terror of being caught. perhaps i will tell you my experience with that feeling some other time, but that feeling is this movie to.
at first this movie is more harmless fun than anything else. you have the classic David Lynch wacky small town characters, sense of humor, and classic american small town setting. that darkness is constantly present in this movie, but as the run time goes on it creeps in more and more until you are shit your pants terrified. but even in this movies insanely crazy dark moments, that Lynch humor is always right there along side it. its easy enough to talk about the moments in this film that work well, but talking about the movie as a whole feels impossible.
i can tell you that Frank Booth is easily the most frightening character from any movie i have ever seen. i can tell you that this movie has the most vulnerable and frightening deception of sexual abuse i have ever seen. but at the same time this movie is beautiful, hilarious, hopeful,
and some of the strongest acting i have ever seen.
how the hell that all fits together so perfectly, i cant put into words. and that's probably for the best.
10000000/10
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