However, Wild at Heart' s attempt to eschew the raw nature of the film by reigning in the finale and lending it a happier, more romantic ending tended to come out a little counterintuitively for the edgy genre it flirted with throughout the rest of it. Both films certainly shared a penchant for violent realism held together by chaotic and messy relationships that would give the Joker and Harley Quinn a run on the crazy meter. Despite being criticized for its "psychedelic" and often crazed scenes, the movie went on to become a cult classic. On the run from authorities and anyone else who would stop them, the rebellious pair drives through Lynch’s fantasyland of incendiary violence, rabid sex, and references to The Wizard of Oz-the lot of it described best by Dern’s character: “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” A strange blend of goofy humor and frighteningly dark situations, Wild at Heart reeks with the smell of cigarettes, sexual abandon, bloody violence, bad teeth, and vomit.ĭespite both movies being very similar, Natural Born Killers likely edges out Wild at Heart in a straight comparison between the two. This Bonnie and Clyde-esque road movie and love story features Nicolas Cage as a criminal Elvis wannabe and Laura Dern as his white-trash goddess. Despite the seemingly sweet ending that harks at a romantic twist, this twisted romance film had a sexy edge with plenty of raunchy scenes and sexualized dialogue, was laced with profanity, and had some pretty severe violence in it too.Īs a great way to sum it all up, here's what Brian Eggert said about the film in an introduction to his piece in Deep Focus Review:ĭavid Lynch achieves combustible, grotesque poetry in Wild at Heart, the director’s highly divisive film from 1990. A weird interaction causes him to experience an epiphany that makes him go back for them. All in all, incredibly strange and not without flaws but also fascinating.By the end of the film, Sailor rejects her and their son and tries to leave them, ostensibly for what he believes is their own good. Laura Dern is alluring with the two working comfortably together, while Diana Ladd manages to be both hilarious and scary and Willem Dafoe is unforgettably creepy. The performances are fine, Nicholas Cage will induce polarising opinions but while he was wooden to start with he was charming and entertaining once he warmed up. The characters are not likable at all, in fact in the cases of Marietta and Bobby a few of them could be seen as loathsome, but considering the atmosphere and viciously violent but also sexy content of the film it is clear that they weren't intended to be. The Wizard of Oz references while a little over-used are fun. The story is not the best but the atmosphere is just great, just loved the campiness, the eroticism and haunting weirdness, it's hardly uneventful and there are some memorable moments like the incredibly chilling robbery sequence and the ending. There is also a hypnotic soundtrack that adds so much to the feel of the film, the music choices being also quite interesting, while Lynch's direction while not the best he's ever done(tied between Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive) but it is very adept and has his unique style all over. There are many great things with Wild at Heart however because the cinematography is stunning, the scenery is bursting with vivid colour and there are plenty of bold colours and lighting with some of the visuals being wonderfully deranged. The story does feel very randomly structured at times, especially true with Crispin Glover, and some of the pacing slackens the film could have done with being shorter as some scenes did feel too padded and underdeveloped, and the script can be a confused jumble and not always easy to understand completely(though admittedly there are some quotable lines). But while it has its flaws Wild at Heart still impresses and fascinates in many ways, also don't think that it's his worst like some people I know in the past have said(that'd be Dune). Wild at Heart is not David Lynch at his best, personally much prefer Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story and is definitely not going to be everybody's cup of tea.
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