60. 'Blue Velvet' (1986)
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I still can't believe I survived this movie. That I saw something this
twisted and disturbing and didn't lose my mind but instead emerged safe and
sound, although never to look at a robin or an ear or Dennis Hopper the same way again. Not to mention
small town living.
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"Blue Velvet" is the greatest Madonna-whore story ever told. It's America's
most elegant story of perversion. David Lynch's best movie makes all other sexual
awakening stories seem tame. And it's impossible not to take this movie
personally, to imagine being as sweetly malleable as Laura Dern or as irresistibly intrigued as Kyle
MacLachlan hiding in that closet. (The next time you feel humiliated or
desperate, think of Isabella Rossellini's Dorothy Vallens standing naked in the
bushes; it will make you feel better). So, when I say I love "Blue Velvet" it is
like saying I loved climbing the tallest mountain in America, or that time I
swam in the coldest water ever as a child in Ireland, because the movie is
daunting and bracing and sublime and impossible to forget, all at once. — Mary
Pols (Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper in "Blue Velvet"/Courtesy Everett
Collection/Rex Features) |
