![]() Not sure about that, but I love this film just as much as Blue Velvet, Fire Walk With Me, Mulholland Drive etc, and it surprises me that many have such a low opinion of it. "Maybe there's something to the theory that Europeans "get" Lynch more than the average American does. Watch this movie it is an intense roller coaster, a visual dream, and an unfiltered look into Lynch's mind and the American psyche." In my mind the release of this movie and the premiere of "Twin Peaks" on television were the events that started the 90's, at least in an artistic sense. The scene where Willem Dafoe's evil, animalistic character seduces Laura Dern verbally is one of the most powerful scenes in film. But this movie is about Lynch's twisted desires and his desire to twist us as well. It is a "road picture" if you boil it down superficially. The story itself is about a couple whose love borders on an unhealthy obsession, and seems to be founded in pleasure more than spirit. His obsessions with Elvis, (impersonated or channeled by Nicholas Cage in an inspired performance) The Wizard of Oz, (the movie repeatedly references the classic both concretely and in symbolism) his desire to opress/victimize women, and the evil inside us all take center stage here the story becomes secondary. I'm not even sure I can say that this movie "entertained" me in the usual sense but I relished the experience. He indulges himself here, perhaps to an extreme. David Lynch is one of the few directors left who still expresses himself through his work he is one of the last true film artists. Most movies are about entertainment and telling a story this movie (like Blue Velvet before it) is about intense emotions, the darker side of the soul, and the warped mind of director David Lynch. It's hard for me to judge it the way I judge other movies it simply can't be put under the same standards. "Wild at Heart is less a movie and more a psychological journey. ![]()
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