The trilogy consisting of Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Dune showed us the first David Lynch. A Lynch who in his first steps had shown himself to be a profound connoisseur of classic films, but also as a skilled weaver of modern atmospheres, and also capable of being universal despite the depth of his proposals. Concluded this trilogy, Lynch undertakes another one, whose first step is the strange and fascinating Blue Velvet, of which the own Woody Allen, among others, got to say that it was the best film of that year, 1986.

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Year: 1986 Category: Neo-Noir, Mystery. Director: David Lynch Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, George Dickerson, Dean Stockwell.

Plot

The story begins when Mr. Beaumont suffers a faint and is sent to the hospital, where he is visited by his son Jeffrey, who finds an ear among some bushes. He picks up the ear and takes it to the police station in a bag. There he is served by Detective Williams. He also meets Sandy, the daughter of the detective, she is the one who will tell him how the research on the ear found is going. These revelations lead Jeffrey with the help of Sandy to infiltrate the apartment of a woman named Dorothy Vallens, but she discovers it, and instead of asking him to leave, she hides it in the closet where she is discovered by the woman, who nevertheless , he decides to hide it in the closet when Frank Booth arrives at the apartment. There Jeffrey gets involved in another mystery related to the strange relationship that Dorothy and Frank have.

Opinion

The first images of this film are unforgettable. After some very elegant titles of credit, on a blue velvet curtain, and with the music of Angelo Badalamenti, it passes to a fade with the blue sky, and some images of the place where the action will take place, a place in which the firemen they walk around waving with a smile, to conclude with a man who has a heart attack while watering his garden.

Afterwards, Lynch's camera enters the earth of that garden, and observes thousands of insects and cockroaches. More expressive impossible. In a truly masterly way he has united the two worlds: the apparent and luminous, and the hidden and tenebrous. And with that event, the man who suffers an attack, a casual event, begins the story, because his son Jeffrey will be the driving force of the action, when he finds an ear cut off and full of ants that will be the beginning of a terrible mystery in the that he will not be able to avoid being involved.

The film unfolds a serene but aggressive staging, in which the very sharp profile planes are common, and then turn them into frontal planes in which the horror, or beauty, of the situation is finally revealed. Photography is very beautiful and brave, being able to combine the luminous with the gloomy, which is the theme of the film. The spectator moves like a fish in the water with this convoluted and evil story, which is capable of building tension and suspense with great ability.

The film has a circular structure, the beginning and end are very similar, but the viewer and the characters are no longer the same. They both know that the world is not as beautiful as we thought.

The performances of Kyle MacLachalan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern are unblemished and the script takes viewers on a journey of constant suspense, which is also enhanced by the assembly and the soundtrack that is a gem. By synthesizing it in some way, Blue Velvet exposes the artistic potential of Lynch in its entirety.

The film gives us many scenarios and surreal situations, rarefied environments and excessive violence, in a village anchored in the 50s, where crooner-like songs sound and that seems endearing, but that hides fearsome secrets, secrets that reveal the ambiguity that is the personality of the human beings who walk in the street or who have breakfast in coffee shops of classic decorated, secrets that the spectator must discover together with the protagonists.

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Score

8/10

Blue velvet is a strange and disconcerting film, with moments certainly uncomfortable for the viewer, but will leave in your memory sublime moments that are never forgotten.