Synopsis
It’s a strange world.
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
1986 Directed by David Lynch
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Isabella Rossellini Kyle MacLachlan Dennis Hopper Laura Dern Hope Lange Dean Stockwell George Dickerson Priscilla Pointer Frances Bay Ken Stovitz Brad Dourif Jack Nance J. Michael Hunter Selden Smith Jack Harvey Angelo Badalamenti Fred Pickler Philip Markert Leonard Watkins Moses Gibson Jon Jon Snipes Jean-Pierre Viale Donald Moore A. Michelle Depland Michelle Sasser Katie Reid Sparky
藍絲絨, Blue Velvet – Verbotene Blicke, Terciopelo azul, Velluto Blu, Terciopelo Azul, 블루 벨벳, Синий бархат
Embarrassingly my first time. A view of suburbia and sadomachochism I didn't think was capable of existing under the same roof. A weirdness that only works in the context of the normal, and also the other way around. What a normal movie.
College kid returns to his hometown after his dad is injured in a freak accident. Kid finds severed ear on the ground. Kid plays Scooby-Doo detective. Kid hides in a closet. Kid gets caught in the middle of a crazy kidnapping scheme. Kid falls in love. Kid has final boss battle with loco Dennis Hopper. Just another day in the sleepy town of Lumberton, right?
Imagine if you could show Blue Velvet to someone unfamiliar with any of the actors. Now, ask them two questions. When was the movie made, and what year does the story of Blue Velvet take place? To me, Blue Velvet looks ageless and timeless. The cinematography and the look of the actual film are flawless.…
So many things I realized on a second watch. Love this movie! A lot! Wow!
(talking about it on the Karstcast)
White picket fences, suburban subversion, sexual repression and violence - David Lynch’s recurring themes and obsessions emerge fully formed in this hyperreal nightmare of wholesome Americana and sadomasochism. The term ‘Lynchian’ immediately conjures up dreamy images of small town America distorted by dark forces and although Blue Velvet marked Lynch’s fourth directorial effort it is a film that best encapsulates his entire career as he continues to recycle and reexamine these nightmare fantasies.
Causing a stir upon its release in 1986, Blue Velvet captures a world of contradictions as Lynch contrasts the neat gardens and painted smile facade of suburban life with its dark underbelly of crime and sexual perversion. By the director’s later standards the film is far more…
Laura Dern: *pours heart and soul out about a dream of her undying love for Kyle MacLachlan*
Kyle MacLachan: "yOu'Re A nEaT gIrL"
I basically crawled up from my "cinema cave" to write this. My body, mind, and soul is like half-cooled jello. I feel like I was assaulted and beaten in a nightmare, only to wake up into another nightmare that's even worse. Blue Velvet just gave me a cinegasm, an experience so thoroughly sensational, terrifying, ingenious, and astoundingly perfect that all I could do at the end was cry and collapse onto the floor.
David Lynch's film is both his finest masterpiece as well as the greatest film of the 1980s. It's that brilliant, mind-boggling, devastating, goofy, disturbing, hilarious, and saddening. Let's say that there was a giant semi-truck carrying every emotion in the world, and it just hit me. All…
Plays like a Hitchcock film, if Hitchcock was possessed by a demonic incubus.
"i can't figure out if you're a detective or a pervert."
"let's fuck! i'll fuck anything that moves!"
"you put your disease in me."
another david lynch movie about normal people having a good time. no sick underbellies or dark impulses (to be afraid of and curious about) in sight.
"It seemed like that love would be the only thing that made any difference...and it did."
not me constantly thirsting over 80s/90s kyle maclachlan like it’s my job..... BUT HIS SILVER HOOP EARRING
100
MKE Film Fest #5
"Are you the one that found the ear.....?
And then she emerges. Out of a simmering, endless night, one of mystery and strange occurances, Sandy is a figure of innocence; pink and bold, radiant and curious. She's another version of Jeffrey in many ways ("You're a neat girl." "So are you...I mean you're a neat guy."), but still tied to small-town perspective, unraveling clues and revelations long past their due date (particularly when Dorothy is taken back to her parents' household) and unconsciously clinging to the façade. It makes the basement house party scene fascinating in that Jeffrey yearns to regain the shining purity which Sandy beckons, yet he cannot turn back from what he's…
While the discomfortness factor as a whole is a bit much at times, Blue Velvet still makes for a notably engaging & suitably subversive mystery-thriller that is favorably straight to the point surprisingly enough, and properly builds upon its foreboding suspense & Lynch's signature surrealism quite well throughout.
The whole cast as well is absolutely exceptional needless to say, although it ultimately is Dennis Hopper who undeniably steals the entire show in this film as his memorable over-the-top antagonist is both amusing & chilling to watch here due to his specific character's general unpredictability. Definitely put on an elevated performance in this one out of them all for sure.
GENIAL!
Una trepidante, oscura y bizarra historia con un final hermoso. Amé casi todo en esta película, aunque me hubiera gustado explorar más en el antagonista y su extraña personalidad.
Week 4 of my 2021 David Lynch rewatch (ironically, watched on Twin Peaks Day). I don’t connect with Blue Velvet on an emotional level like I do with some of his later masterpieces, but I continue to be in awe of Lynch’s nerve. They’ve never made movies like this in Hollywood, before or since. A true American nightmare.
Frank Booth is the first of Lynch’s deranged patriarchs, and in a strange way, he’s also the funniest. I don’t know how Dennis Hopper pulled that off, but he did!
Blending psychological horror with film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name.
The film concerns a young college student who, returning home to visit his ill father, discovers a severed human ear in a field that leads to his uncovering a vast criminal conspiracy and entering a romantic relationship with a troubled lounge singer.
Blue Velvet initially received a divided critical response, with many stating that its objectionable content served little artistic purpose. Nevertheless, the film earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and came to achieve cult status. As an example of a director casting against the norm, it…
Smoked an incredible blunt before seeing it on the big screen right from the second row and it was definitely a (un)pleasantly intense cinematic experience emphasising Lynch’s directing virtuosity. Definitely pushed the surreality of his style, as well as the ferociousness of Dennis Hopper’s performance which gave me chills.
When Kyle Maclachlans name came up in the credits my mum turned to me and said "That's the all you're here for right?" And I'll be straight with you all I did tell someone at work if I don't get to see his bum I'm gonna be mad and let's just say... I ain't mad 😏😏
i thought i would actually care a lot more with what was going on than what i did... guess not enough laura dern!!!!!!!!!!☺️☺️☺️☺️🥰🥰🥰🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
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