Reviewer by: Tor2600
Posted by: Root Rot
Blue Velvet (1986)
Directed by: David Lynch
A Film Noir by David Lynch, if you watched the film without knowing who directed it by the end you would know without a doubt it was from Lynch’s crazed mind. In passing this film is probably easily missed by cult fans because of the title and poster art. The art is very simple and looks like a romance flick, which it is, just with a mystery wrapped around it and done by David Lynch.
Jeffrey Beaumont a college student in town visiting his father in the hospital finds a human ear while walking through a field on the way home. Jeffrey brings the ear to his neighbour a detective for the local police department, detective Williams. Williams has a teenage daughter Sandy. Sandy hears details about the cases her dad is working on because her room is right above her dad’s office. Sandy offers some of these details to Jeffrey. Jeffrey and Sandy team up and take the investigation into their own hands.
The duo finds that a woman named Dorothy Vallens has had her son and husband kidnapped by an evil man Frank Booth played by Dennis Hopper and his goons. Frank is one strange character to say the least; he wears lipstick, hits women, inhales helium, and has some suave friends. There is one scene that I really remember where Frank uses the word F*** out of context repeatedly, it’s really strange.
Of course you cannot have a David Lynch film without some sort of weird nightmarish sequence that just throws you off track a bit.
The music from this movie is very strange but somehow appropriate. The song Candy Colored Clown is still stuck in my head. Also the theme “Blue Velvet” sung by Isabella Rossellini in the movie is also not typically my type of music but it is really enjoyable.
The original cut of Blue Velvet was 4 hours long, and apparently the 2 hours cut from the film are missing. There are some easily missed references to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Blue Velvet boasts “The most talked about film of the decade” this statement is far from true, but this film should definitely be talked about.
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