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Blue Velvet is a story that is very bizarre indeed but a story that I think everybody would really like because of how dark the story is. It is a very disturbing film because an ear is found in a field. The ear is a very deep effect on not just the murder investigation but also the characters. It deeply affects their lives as well. The classic scene is definitely the scene where Jeffrey was going to a woman called Dorothy's flat and he found her there. She makes him strip naked and performs an act of fellatio on him while sticking a knife at him. That is a very crude scene but a very realistic scene. The way this film was made was very well done because it is a really dark, mind-blowing thriller that is probably one of Lynch's darkest films so far. It was a very hard film to understand at first but once I got into the film after about 30 minutes I started to really enjoy it. The way the opening credits rolled was the same way the ending credits rolled with blue velvet curtains. That was an introduction to what the two words mean put together. It shows actual blue velvets to start with but when curtains opened the Blue Velvet film began and it did the same with the end. The curtains closed and it finished. Isabella Rossellini was really good as Dorothy Vallens because she was obviously a very mixed up woman with a few problems. Isabella made her quite weird looking even though that is part of the character anyway. Her performance as Dorothy was really weird as well as powerful.
Kyle MacLaughan's performance as Jeffery Beaumont was awesome as well because he was like an innocent victim until he spotted the ear in the field and he is suddenly part of the case. He takes the ear to the police which leads to his scenes with Dorothy. He is like a rookie and a trainee in the case of the murdered person. Dennis Hopper's performance as Frank Booth was the best out of all of them because he was really good at playing that cold, foul-mouthed, violent and sociopath to his personality. He is a very fearful villain. He is also sexually screwed up because he had different types of sex with Dorothy whenever he wanted to. The acts are all very crude which is very dark of course. He even has orgasms with rage and pleasure at the same time which is very weird. I haven't seen Dennis Hopper in any film at all yet but he was really good as Frank though.
David Lynch directed this film like it was very important for the audience as well as himself because his previous film Dune which turned out to be a critical failure. He wanted it to be a more personal story which a somewhat type of characters to his 1977 film Eraserhead which was his first film. This is a very typical Lynch film for quite a few different reasons and they are because it is dark, rather bizarre and a story with a powerful development of characters. Those three facts are the main reasons why I turned out to love this one and can I be blamed? No! The script was really awesome. Lynch had two different drafts of the script before filming but he finally concluded to write an absolutely amazing script that didn't have one single flaw. This is probably the most creative script he has ever written.
David Lynch has created another modern piece of art. Unfortunately Blue Velvet isn't my favourite Lynch film but it is one of his best and is certainly one of the best crime thrillers ever. I prefer The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive of the ones I have seen from Lynch thus far. Blue Velvet is definitely one of the best films of the 1980s. Also, Blue Velvet has one of the greatest scripts I have ever listened to as well.
9/10
