Blue velvet

David Lynch's Blue Velvet is an exploration of things above and below the surface. This surface is really a borderline between not only idyllic suburban America and the dark, perverted corruption that lies underneath but also between good and evil, conscious and subconscious, dream and reality. Although this division seems quite rigid and clean-cut some of the most important implications of the film stem from the transgressions of these borderlines. In the initial scenes of the film Lynch introduces

In many motion pictures, underlying themes and values are often hidden amongst more superficial demonstrations and ideas. In the film, Blue Velvet, Jeffrey the protagonist is trying to solve a crime while at the same time he is really exploring this other world of explicit sexuality that is opened by his new-found desire towards Dorothy Vallen, a mysterious and interesting woman that has ties to the crime. This new desire that Jeffrey has towards Dorothy is noted throughout the film as he slowly

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is an illustration of a fantasy world full of seduction, desire and death. It explores the corrupted desires of society, while counterbalancing between its subconscious and social world. The film disrupts all nostalgic knowledge we have of American suburbia by juxtaposing the fluidic norms of gender and socioeconomic roles. As well as evoke neurotic notions of masculinity. However the construction of women being used as agents to the physical and social desires of men,

hot meal waiting for you when you get home. While this idea may be postcard or billboard perfect, it is not as perfect for everyone involved or for the future when it looked at from under the service. Gary Ross’ Pleasantville and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet both explore the idea of the suburban American Dream and that it is not as squeaky clean perfection as it seems. Gary Ross’ Pleasantville is the story of two modern day children being magically zapped into a TV Land-esque show, called Pleasantville

“An infinite mirror would no longer be a mirror.” (Baudry 45) The argument of cinema working as a mirror can be made by looking at the cinematic performance of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Blue Velvet centers around the story of Jeffery’s (Kyle MacLachlan) quest to try to find out the truth behind the story of the Blue Velvet singer (Isabella Rossellini). The film uses a multitude of close up images of faces, places, and individual objects to convey this sense of thee unrelated images somehow making

Blue Velvet: Scene Analysis The opening scene in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet portrays the theme of the entire film. During this sequence he uses a pattern of showing the audience pleasant images, and then disturbing images to contrast the two. The first shot of the roses over the picket fence and the title track “Blue Velvet” establishes the setting (Lumberton) as a typical suburban town. The camera starts on a bright blue sky with birds chirping and flying by and then tilts down to bright

It is a common theme for groups of artist to revolt against their predecessors and the common standards that the pervious community of artist held. This is seen repeatedly from the ancient Greeks, whose bronze and marble sculptures developed around the perfection of the male human form, to the transition to the Romans their ideas followed the individual they sculpted busts of the great leaders and the common people of many different ages showing the uniqueness of all of them. This change was also

living in Totalitarian Regime and Communism. But in all of that fearful and unpredictable mess, was Vaclav Havel. In the future, he would become the last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of Czech Republic. He was a major part in the Velvet Revolution, that took down Communism in Czechoslovakia. He proved to many people that though he was placed into a country that destroyed creativity and free speech, he was

C:UsersAlexMusic Journal (hidden folder)Excerpt3.mp3 …. Well things did not go as expected. Lily’s murderer got away before I can even put a scratch in him. Agh! I was going to make him suffer and then he decides to up and leave on me! *sigh* I might as well leave my twin with a boon for his troubles. I don’t like this though. I want someone to pay. I want to avenge Lily but my only chance slipped from my hands. Now Lily is dead. Her killer on the loose. As….As much as I want to, I don’t think I

The citizens of Czechoslovakia had not known freedom in decades. During much of World War II the nation was occupied by the Nazis and later by the Red Army as it drove the Nazis back to Berlin. When they Red Army moved into an area, communist regimes were set up to govern the area, and establish satellite nations. There were numerous uprisings throughout the decade that were violently suppressed by the communist governments with help from the USSR. After Alexander Dubcek tried to grant reforms to