Movie : Blue Velvet

We take a little drive through a squeaky clean wholesome American town. Or is it? A college kid comes home to see his sick father. Walking home from visiting his dad in the hospital, killing time the boy tosses some rocks at an empty bottle in a vacant lot and in the course of doing that he finds a severed ear. He takes  the ear to the cops and starts to do a a little detective work on his own to find the mystery behind the ear. He finds that maybe the old hometown has more than a few nut jobs inhabiting the  stomping grounds.

David Lynch takes us on a “joyride” into his distinctive style of film-making. I love films that don’t play it straight. Blue Velvet doesn’t play it straight in fact it is really bent. Norman Rockwell on drugs and a lot of other stuff. Lynch creates a world inside a world. Creepsville. It’s a nightmare, horror ride which we get swept up in. Lynch builds it up and then hits the freak show button with Dennis Hopper and his friends with Dean Stockwell being the gem of them all. Both of these guys are great actors playing a couple real sick guys that need head help. Just watch Hopper as he watches Stockwell do his Roy Orbison. What the hell is that? I don’t know but I like it.

The film creates a definite feel and mood. Noir/mystery/nightmare/head-trip. Everything is off kilter with this film but David Lynch knows what he wants and gets it from his story, his cast and his crew. It’s a good piece of film and it works for CB. Good soundtrack.

Take a whirl into Lynch’s world and see what’s under the surface. It’s not like anything you are used to. “It’s a strange world isn’t it?”

The film leaves us with one big question “Why are there people like Frank?”

“LETS GO FOR A JOYRIDE!!”