Usually, before watching any movie I look up IMDb to see its rating and viewers' comments on it. I did the same before seeing the Blue Velvet. It said, mostly, that the film is extremely violent and highly disturbing, yet still a masterpiece, and it had a reasonably high rating of 7.8/10...then I watched the movie. I believe it is one of the most disgusting films I ever saw. It is no doubt intended to be full of hidden significance, or symbolism and the violence and sex seems to only be there to exploit characters. This is supposed to be "new and frighteningly surrealistic", a "a satire on suburbia", a "glimpse of the underworld". The viewer is probably supposed to be saturated with disgust to the point that he/she realizes, oh my God, that's us! Suppose, however, that you don't go along with this idea. What do you see then? You see an empty film. It is filled with meaningless nudity, violence and bizarre sex and your suppose to swallow it all and call it an artistic masterpiece.
I'm perplexed at how this is now a classic movie. Pfft!
I'm perplexed at how this is now a classic movie. Pfft!