Review of Blue Velvet (1986) by Connor _ — 19 Feb 2011
One of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. All of the characters are written flat and one-sided and nearly everything is fueled with sex. Kyle MacLachlan is curious, simply put. Laura Dern is curious but at the same time nervous and risky only for MacLachlan.
Isabella Rosselini is a horrified, emotionaly scarred, tortured sex tool. Dennis Hopper is an insane, drug-addicted, sadist. That covers all the major characters, besides a detective, Dern's father, who retains the same facial expression the whole time.
Hopper's junkie posse is almost as weird as he is, thank God we don't see their sex habits too. MacLachlan finds an ear in a field and turns it in to the cops, who tell him to stay away from the case.
But when he meets Dern, he needlessly gets himself involved with a kidnapping and sex abuse case that he will end up regretting. He leaves the pleasant, innocent cover-up of the town and delves into a dark world or sex and drugs and murder dictated by the vile Hopper and his sex-addicted posse.
Not to mention beginning love affairs with the sadistic Rosselini and Dern at the same time without either knowing of the other, MacLachlan naively gets deeper and deeper into a world he soon wants to leave to return to ignoratn simplicity he enjoyed only days before.
Can't compliment the screenplay, and "legendary" writer/director David Lynch fails to impress. D-.
This review of Blue Velvet (1986) was written by Connor _ on 19 Feb 2011.
Blue Velvet has generally received very positive reviews.
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