short reviews 2: Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet-- How many get that this movie is a parody of happy ever after endings? It plies you with the stench of sexual and criminal darkness for nearly 2 hours then hits you with the love triumphs over all ending, the cute return to the same images the film started with. The suburban platitudes of blue skies, robins in the air, hope for all. Whether the anger is intentional or not, I dont know, but maybe Lynch is a sentimental cornball after all. Two quotes are the heart of this movie. One is from Frank Booth addressed to Jeffrey Beaumont:"You're the same as me." And one from the aunt at the end ofthe movie: "I could never eat a bug." There's truth to the first and falsity in the second.