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Blue Velvet understood: it is a strange world, right? Survey

Blue velvet. USA, 1986.

Director and Screenwriter: David Lynch

Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern

Subjects of interest: fetishism, sadomasochism

Synopsis:

A human ear appears on the quiet garden district where Jeffrey lives. The boy is investigating the case on his own with the help of Sandy, the daughter of one of the policemen in town. Sandy puts Jeffrey on the trail of Dorothy, the lead singer of a night-club that will introduce the young into the dark night of your local underworld, hitherto completely unknown to him.

Comment:

The film begins with an overview of a typical American residential area. Sunshine and the gentle ballad sounds Blue velvet which gives the film its title. Suddenly one of the neighbors have a heart attack, the music loses strength and is replaced by a disturbing noise and the camera is inserted into the grass of one of the gardens of the neighborhood, discovering in him a severed human ear. This already tells us that we will attend a descent into hell hidden under a nice appearance, given the dreamlike tone of the film, this can be seen as a metaphor for a journey into the subconscious, to combat the most threatening oneself, which is almost always the center of the film by David Lynch. Blue Velvet be seen as a modern fairy tale in which Jeffrey, the protagonist, you have to shape their identity and move into adulthood with a traumatic initiation process which must deal with a witch, Dorothy, and an ogre (Frank, Dorothy's lover) to win the princess, Sandy.

In this journey of initiation to the dark bowels of the city, or of self, sexuality plays a very important but does not normally stand out erotomaniac Lynch as all his films have a strong sexual atmosphere. In Blue Velvet dared to put first on the table for characters with a distinctly sexual fetish, years before the bizarre cult was fashionable; this film was actually quite a countercurrent time as the 80 dominated by the asexuality and innocence somewhat forced productions Steven Spielberg and his imitators, always looking for label film for all audiences. Lynch distanced himself with this work clearly aimed at an adult audience in which they openly show the cruel ritual of domination and submission, on the edge of rape, who play Frank and Dorothy. Frank appears as an adult child as sadistic and perverse as dependent, unable to control his sexual drive and to give moral or emotional dimension, Dorothy, both fairy and witch reaffirms its role of victim to the point of investing in someone like Jeffrey, who is reluctant to be the executioner and therefore will to assume another role and be humiliated, and that Dorothy does not support sex without power games. Their strange relationship with this sadomasochistic initiation Jeffrey will serve to confront his fear of women and the demons of his own sexuality, represented by Frank, destroy and thereby turn the witch in a fairy good. In later films of David Lynch, the protagonist is no longer able to carry out successful completion of this process and is involved in a self-destructive nightmare, as in Lost Highway .



Top Scenes:

Dorothy finds

• Jeffrey hidden in his closet. Threatening with a knife, make you strip in front of her.


• humiliating Frank is excited whispers Dorothy while the child wants to fuck and inhale amyl nitrate to increase your excitement.


• SPOILER: At the end of the story, Frank can no longer continue doing damage to Dorothy, played happily with his son while Jeffrey and Sandy, happy, hear the birds sing. The light has overcome the darkness.
  

Anecdotes:

• was the first collaboration between Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti , who has composed soundtracks for all subsequent films and also director of the hit television series Twin Peaks . also Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern have worked with Lynch, who obviously likes to surround himself known in the past.
  
  
• Apart from these relations, David Lynch found this film to his girlfriend for several years, Isabella Rossellini .
  
• The rating agency of the films in the United States forced to cut the odd scene for the film was not forbidden to minors, one of these criteria was that Frank hit censorship Dorothy out of field and not on display.
  
• The film earned an Oscar nomination for lonely David Lynch for Best Director of the Year, among many other awards from critics' associations and nominations for Golden Globe and Independent Spirit.

About the director:

David Lynch born in Montana in 1946, from an early age he began to paint and then became interested in film when he wants to move to his paintings. His first film, Eraserhead , hard to see and carried out with a limited budget over the years become a film cult and get some producers are set to their director. Blue Velvet makes it one of the authors most unique and one of the main references of contemporary avant-garde cinema. His surreal and dreamlike look on the black film is repeated on the hit television soap opera Twin Peaks and later in other cult films as Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive . Eroticism, Fetish and almost always disturbing, is one of the main elements of his films and is always leaving the stories, but rarely go to extreme close.

Links: IMDB


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