I've seen Blue Velvet several times and the thing that strikes me about it this time is Lynch's fascination with human beings. Not simply their dark, sinful substrata, but their violence, their nïaveté, their curiosity, their fatalism.
I wouldn't call Lynch a fatalist, but he is fascinated by the inevitability of some people's choices, their preoccupation with things that are harmful, even fatal to them.
Dennis Hopper frighteningly lives there. It is his most strikingly honest performance, maybe because he always lived there, even as he pushes realism out the door in favor of broadstroke menace and subdued chaos.
I would like to think the obviously mechanical robin could be real, but no. The mechanical bird is the only kind of bird that can conquer the type of darkness Lynch shows us. It is the only solution he can muster.
Fabrication. Art. Reorganized nature.
Maybe Lynch is a fatalist after all.
film journal entry: 06.30.2012
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