“…unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.”
That is so fucking true. This film will completely blow your mind. Back in the 1980’s, I bet people were just punching people like crazy because this film is FUCKING CRAZY. The film follows a young college student upon returning to his hometown following his father’s hospitalization, discovers a severed ear in a field behind his neighborhood.
Things get out of hand as he connects the ear to a beautiful but devastated singer and her sadistic sadomasochistic tormentor. From there, the most perfect storytelling takes place and you’re hooked.
Blue Velvet was written and directed by none other than David Lynch. Lynch is most famous for his weird cryptic narrative in Mulholland Drive and for his strange symbolism in his feature film debut Eraserhead. Blue Velvet incorporates strong symbolism and a perfectly structured script to tell a story about murder and mystery. Strong themes pop in, for example voyeurism is used by the protagonist a few times. The film had a dark tone, following a happy introduction. The characters are developed almost like they live in a perfect world where nothing happens. But as the protagonist infamously says, “It’s a strange world.”
A perfect structure that couldn’t be toppled, a great cast that worked perfectly well with each other, and strong rhetorical strategies to develop the story and make closures, make Blue Velvet by far the best film of the 20th century. I give the film a 5 out of 5 and it is currently out on DVD and I highly recommend you stop what you’re doing and go buy it right now.
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