Should you watch Blue Velvet?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Blue Velvet
Film · 1986
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
The sides of Blue Velvet
- A severed ear in a field
- A nightclub singer held by a madman
- A sunny small town hiding something rotten
Blue Velvet is good for you if…
- you like David Lynch's dreamlike side of a picket fence town.
- you like a young man playing detective way out of his depth.
- you can't look away from Dennis Hopper as Frank.
Blue Velvet is bad for you if…
- you can't watch Frank Booth beating people up.
- you can't take sexual abuse shown on screen.
About: innocence · desire · evil
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