Blue Velvet is a strange movie

Hard to find in the constellation of David Lynch films a work so crudely and at the same time with some coherence unusual to the director's work.

Beginning as a satire to the American Way of Life, the film features a town called Lumberton with lawns, flowers, and gentle firefighters. After a domestic accident, the camera descends to ground level, where it reveals a community of insects, such as to say that under a beautiful landscape, underlies much corruption and dirt.

Blue Velvet then changes the direction of the plot for mystery movie: Jeffrey, a college student son of the man injured in the initial scene, returns from a visit to the hospital when he finds, in a vacant lot, a human ear, which carries in a little bag to the police officer Williams, his neighbor. But instead of leaving the investigation to the professionals, the boy decides to follow the case on his own, and worse, with the help of the daughter of the policeman, the beautiful and dreamy Sandy.

It is not long before the couple discovers a relationship between the event and nightclub singer Dorothy Valens. Going to the woman's apartment, Jeffrey not only learns that her husband (the owner of the ear) and his young son were kidnapped, as a witness that the abductor, the gangster Frank, turned the singer into his sex slave.

With Frank's departure, Jeffrey is discovered by Dorothy. From this, an unlikely relationship begins. Feeling safe with the young man, the singer embraces him and asks him to ... spank her. This ambiguity could become the new thread of the movie's driver: to what extent can the abusive relationship of the psychopath Frank be pleasurable to Dorothy, and how much will Jeffrey dive into the sought-after role of the perpetrator?

Still missing in these issues, we are surprised, along with Jeffrey, by the crazed Frank (perhaps one of the best performances of Dennis Hopper) that comes on the scene and retakes the previous theme.

If there is an (improbable) attempt at a happy ending, as in Sandy's dream with little robins, we realize that it is indeed a dream. Or a nightmare.

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