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the cover says:
you will either love or hate blue velvet - but you will never get away from it.
hmm, not really, iīd give 3 out of 5 and i will probably have forgotten about in a week.
it starts out brilliant, a few pictures perfectly describing where we are: flowers, a firetruck with a waving fireman, a police helping children over the street and a man watering his garden tells us of an idyllic american smalltown.
the man then falls down in cramps from what i first thought was a bee-sting and an allergetic shock but later seemed to be some sort of heartstroke. that doesnīt really matter though.
then the camera moves down and in to the grass where we see bugs fighting and it tells us that there is something wrong here under the surface.
as in twin peaks and lost highway there is a tension, an excitement of what is to come because you can never tell and it really hooks me the first 30 minutes.
then i donīt know. maybe itīs the late pizzadeliveyguy that interrupts the movie when itīs really starts getting interesting and thus getting me out of the mood or maybe the film simply just doesnīt keep me interested. itīs still good but not as mysterious as i would want(or maybe i should take the movie for what it is and donīt compare it to his later work) and the horrors that lurk beneath the calm surface of the town isnīt frightening enough.
"See that clock on the wall? In five minutes you are not going to belive what i just told you."
i like the quote but well, itīs not like it is so unbelievable and exciting as one might expect after that phrase.
the movie caused uproar when it was released, but hey come on! it was 1986, ok if it was the 50s or something but 1986, it canīt have been that terrifying.
there are basically 2 scenes that are really out of the ordinary, but on the other hand these 2 scenes are deeply, deeply disturbing and very hard to watch(i have to admit i couldnīt watch the first of the two).
the first scene is of course when one of the most horrible characters ever to appear in a movie, Frank Booth, plays out his bizarre and abnormal sexual desires on the poor Dorothy Vallens.
the other being when they take jeffrey for a ride and frank starts pinching dorothyīs breast in the car and then beats jeffrey up.
so those scenes were discusting and itīs not the exactly the normal sex shown on TV but itīs not like heīs hailing it(is it?). he tells us of a sick bastard that uses this woman and how she is affected by this and later how jeffreys, who is indeed both a pervet and a detcetive, attracton and pity for her saves her.
iīd understand the uproar if he was bathing in that kind of scenes but it serves a purpose and there isnīt much of it.
i mean, he just says it exists not that it is good.
there wasnīt really anything that was hard to understand and it doesnīt leave me with many questions. or maybe i missed something.
the ending is ok, dorothy seems to be crying sitting on the park bench, out of happiness or maybe everything still isnīt allright?
one question though, what exactly happened to Don and the yellow man/gordon?
who killed them? frank? dorothy? he has blue velvet in his mouth...
you will either love or hate blue velvet - but you will never get away from it.
hmm, not really, iīd give 3 out of 5 and i will probably have forgotten about in a week.
it starts out brilliant, a few pictures perfectly describing where we are: flowers, a firetruck with a waving fireman, a police helping children over the street and a man watering his garden tells us of an idyllic american smalltown.
the man then falls down in cramps from what i first thought was a bee-sting and an allergetic shock but later seemed to be some sort of heartstroke. that doesnīt really matter though.
then the camera moves down and in to the grass where we see bugs fighting and it tells us that there is something wrong here under the surface.
as in twin peaks and lost highway there is a tension, an excitement of what is to come because you can never tell and it really hooks me the first 30 minutes.
then i donīt know. maybe itīs the late pizzadeliveyguy that interrupts the movie when itīs really starts getting interesting and thus getting me out of the mood or maybe the film simply just doesnīt keep me interested. itīs still good but not as mysterious as i would want(or maybe i should take the movie for what it is and donīt compare it to his later work) and the horrors that lurk beneath the calm surface of the town isnīt frightening enough.
"See that clock on the wall? In five minutes you are not going to belive what i just told you."
i like the quote but well, itīs not like it is so unbelievable and exciting as one might expect after that phrase.
the movie caused uproar when it was released, but hey come on! it was 1986, ok if it was the 50s or something but 1986, it canīt have been that terrifying.
there are basically 2 scenes that are really out of the ordinary, but on the other hand these 2 scenes are deeply, deeply disturbing and very hard to watch(i have to admit i couldnīt watch the first of the two).
the first scene is of course when one of the most horrible characters ever to appear in a movie, Frank Booth, plays out his bizarre and abnormal sexual desires on the poor Dorothy Vallens.
the other being when they take jeffrey for a ride and frank starts pinching dorothyīs breast in the car and then beats jeffrey up.
so those scenes were discusting and itīs not the exactly the normal sex shown on TV but itīs not like heīs hailing it(is it?). he tells us of a sick bastard that uses this woman and how she is affected by this and later how jeffreys, who is indeed both a pervet and a detcetive, attracton and pity for her saves her.
iīd understand the uproar if he was bathing in that kind of scenes but it serves a purpose and there isnīt much of it.
i mean, he just says it exists not that it is good.
there wasnīt really anything that was hard to understand and it doesnīt leave me with many questions. or maybe i missed something.
the ending is ok, dorothy seems to be crying sitting on the park bench, out of happiness or maybe everything still isnīt allright?
one question though, what exactly happened to Don and the yellow man/gordon?
who killed them? frank? dorothy? he has blue velvet in his mouth...
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