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David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Frank's Fantastic Folly,
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This review is from: Blue Velvet [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
How do you sum up BLUE VELVET???Hard to say... but it's safe to say that you need to prepare to be shocked and then shocked and then shocked once again!!! Dennis Hopper's FRANK is the epitome of FREDDIE KRUGER meets DENIRO... Just that wry, twisted, sardonically sadistic personality that could scare the bejesus out of you in a dark alley... or in a church pew when he sits down next to you in the middle of the Sunday morning sermon!!! This guy is scary... and he will make your skin crawl as his antics keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last moment... If you want to be kept awake... even when you are exhaustively fatigued... this is the movie you've been looking for... Sit back... take something to help you relax... and prepare to be taken to the twisted dark underbelly of the sadistic... This movie will shock you... and oh what fun getting electrocuted in this fashion is!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Darkness and Beauty,
By Lynchianismist (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blue Velvet (Special Edition) (DVD)
This is a very beautiful film; it captures so much about life itself. There is certainly a dark side explored here, and you cannot look away once you start watching it. David Lynch has created a piece of artwork here only he could master. The more often I watch this, the more I appreciate it. Dennis Hopper is amazing here; if you are open to more than the mundane in film, you must see this film.Unfortunately, it is not available from Amazon.ca; get it at Amazon.com.
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Newly discovered footage...,
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This review is from: Blue Velvet [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" (1986) is a surreal tale that takes place in a small lumber town which has the big city problems of murders, and gangs. Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers the dark side of the town as he investigates the mystery behind a human ear he finds in a field.This blu-ray appears to be the same master as the Special Edition dvd that came out in 2002, but now seen in 1080p. Though what this blu-ray has over past releases is 50 minutes of newly discovered footage, whereas the 2002 dvd Special Edition only had about 9 minutes of still photographs that approximated the lost footage. Lynch had shot about four hours of film, which he then trimmed down to two hours for the final cut of the film. Two other things the blu-ray has over the Special Edition dvd are a few outtakes, and four vignettes, including the story behind the robin at the end of the film, which isn't what I thought it was. As in the 2002 Special Edition dvd set there is the review by Siskel and Ebert, and a documentary which is over one hour long called "Mysteries of Love".
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