There is far more to 'Blue Velvet' than meets the eye. You can't labelthisas drama, satire, or black comedy. It just doesn't work.<br><br>'Blue Velvet' is an example of our world's disarray. This film is VERYgenius in its portrayal. We see a hokey, innocent town that yields a darksecret.<br><br>The symbolism is great. White picket fences, waving fireman, hokeyacting,and a sunny day show the apparent innocence. But a stroke, black insects,acandle getting blown out, etc. show us something else.<br><br>I love how when we see the innocence, everything is hokey. The music,acting, dialogue... everything. But when the darkness appears, everythingbecomes serious. The script improves, the acting is better... everything.That's something that was missed by most viewers.<br><br>David Lynch is brilliant, but he also has a great sense of humor. Jokesaren't funny... absurdity is funny.<br><br>Lightness and darkness seemingly coexist in this lumber town... each intheir own place. When a curious fellow returns home, he disrupts thebalance and the two forces go to war. Yet, we don't really even knowwhichside he's on. I love how Jeffrey always wears black and white. I loveallthe symbology of this film.<br><br>If you haven't seen this yet, break away from the Hollywood cookie cuttermovies and prepare to have your mind challenged and entertained.<br><br>Makes a fun party movie, too. ;o)<br><br>10/10

What surprised me was how very different this was from the two other greatDavid Lynch films I'd seen: &quot;Lost Highway&quot; and &quot;The Straight Story&quot;, whichare in turn very different from one another. I'd been told by a disappointedDavid Lynch fan, back in 1997, that the only reason I was so deeplyimpressed with &quot;Lost Highway&quot; was that I hadn't seen &quot;Bue Velvet&quot;, in whichhe does much the same kind of thing better. &quot;Blue Velvet&quot; may indeed bebetter (I wouldn't want to say), but in no respect is it the same kind ofthing. (The only instance I've encountered so far of Lynch making the samefilm twice is &quot;Lost Highway&quot; being remade as &quot;Mulholland Drive&quot;, whichpartly accounts for the latter film being so stale anduninvolving.)<br><br>&quot;Blue Velvet&quot; is a simple amateur sleuthing story, but the genius is in thetelling of it. It's hard to avoid the feeling that something supernatural issomehow involved, although it isn't, and we know that it isn't. It looks andfeels as though we're watching the world through a special enchanted (orcursed) prism: the image has been pulled apart, ALMOST into two distinctimages, with the elements of pure evil and pure wholesomeness now distinctfrom one another, sitting just millimetres apart.<br><br>Unrelated to this, but still contributing to the intense suspense and theoverall creepiness, is Lynch's ability to make us familiar with a fewordinary locations, which grow more sinister - or at least more meaningful -every time we see them, until the sight of a simple concrete stairwell inthe dark is enough to make us start to panic.

Title: Blue Velvet (1986)<br><br>Director: David Lynch <br><br>Cast: Isabella Rosellini, Kyle Mac Lachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern <br><br>Review: David Lynch films are paintings come to life, this has verymuch to do with the fact that Lynch himself is a painter and he bringsthat artistic point of view to his film making. Like a good painting,his movies tell a story, which much like an abstract painting, is notalways easy to figure out. But what a treat it is to try.<br><br>Blue Velvet is a story about a young man returning to his hometown tovisit his father who is sick in the hospital. Upon his return hestumbles upon a frightening discovery: a human ear lying on the grassas he walks through the forest behind his parents home. He then takesit upon himself to discover where this ear came from and discovers thatthat ear will be the reason why he discovers that this is in fact avery strange and dangerous world in which we live in.<br><br>Lynch is synonymous with the strange and unusual and Blue Velvet is agood example of this. For those who have ventured into Lynchianterritory with films like Mullholland Dr. or Lost Highway get ready forsome more crazy imagery and messed up situations. But Ill be honestthis time around, even though the situations and images are very verysurreal and strange the story itself is pretty easy to understand. LostHighway remains a total mystery to me to this day, Mullholland Dr. Ihad to watch about 6 times to figure out....but Blue Velvet thoughequally as strange and fascinating as those films mentioned, isactually easy to follow and understand.<br><br>I loved Kyle MacLachlans character and it was very interesting to seehim go through the changes he goes through after he makes hisdiscoveries. He isn't quite the same anymore after he sees the thingshe sees and does the things he does. Loved that scene in which LauraDern tries to let him see that even though there's some crazy things inthis world there's some good bound to show up sooner or later. LauraDerns character was beautiful and innocent, the one thing that couldbring balance to MacLachlans character. By far the most interesting andmemorable thing in this film is Dennis Hoppers character, yes myfriends, I'm talking about that crazy, demented, sex-crazed freak knownas Frank Booth.<br><br>Frank Booth is one of those characters that just oozes with evil. Youdon't feel like its this actor playing some villain, when that happensyou totally stop believing that said villain is dangerous. Not so here.Hopper looks, breaths and speaks pure evil! Your kind of scared thatthere might actually be people like him out in the real world. Hisscenes and dialog is truly disturbing stuff.....&quot;Ill f##[email protected] anythingthat moooves!&quot; <br><br>I loved the visual aspect of the film which was -as is usual in a Lynchfilm- extremely beautiful. We may be looking at sliced human ears anddemented sex freaks...but everything is photographed within the contextof beautiful haunting colors, exotic plays of shadows and lights. Greatvisuals. The music is incredible as well. Lynch seems to be fond oflounge singers cause very much like he did in Mullholland Drive in ClubSilencio, we get another sequence much like that one, with IsabellaRosellini singing us &quot;Blue Velvet&quot; the title song. And there's also asequence which is very very humorous yet strange and alluring....DeanStockwell singing Roy Orbinsons &quot;In Dreams&quot;. Awesome sequence, one ofthe most memorable sequences on this film or any other Lynch film. Whenthat scene comes on, you'll be transported to another time and place.What time and place it is Ill leave it up to you.<br><br>All in all a great Lynch film not to be missed. A masterpiece that letsme know why Lynch is one of the greatest American directors ever to bein the business of making bizarro, beautiful cinema.<br><br>Rating: 5 out of 5 (and very very much so!)