After which I watched the Mark Cousins interview from 1999 and it's funny how shy and unsure and amused and friendly he is, yet he can create these absolute monsters like Frank (Dennis Hopper) - one of the vilest in film creation (who also ruins any good associations you might have with the songs 'Blue Velvet' and 'In Dreams'!) "There are good things in life and there are bad things," he offers by way of explanation, but clearly there's some horror deep down in the man that he was trying to get out. His time in Philadelphia, of it having a sickness in the air, was also a big influence - you sense that's where the hideous industrial sounds and images in his films come from.
The dog trying to snap the water from the hose of the heart-attacked man is bizarrely funny.
This is about the disturbances that lie under the surface of 'normal' civilization. The Isabella Rossellini character is quite disturbed too, masochistic and not seeming to be too concerned about her missing husband. Some of Lynch's outstanding montages include the way Kyle MacLachlan hits her and his dream following the nightmarish apartment visit. It's quite a film, still, very disturbing and uncomfortable viewing... but at least it has a 'happy' ending.
Great sound (designer Alan Splet). And the decors of all the bad places are quite distinctive, like run down 1940s, designer Patricia Norris. Great cinematography and editing also - Frederick Elmes and Duwayne Dunham.
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