![]() ![]() It's hard to avoid the feeling that something supernatural is somehow involved, although it isn't, and we know that it isn't. (The only instance I've encountered so far of Lynch making the same film twice is "Lost Highway" being remade as "Mulholland Drive", which partly accounts for the latter film being so stale and uninvolving.) "Blue Velvet" is a simple amateur sleuthing story, but the genius is in the telling of it. "Blue Velvet" may indeed be better (I wouldn't want to say), but in no respect is it the same kind of thing. ![]() I'd been told by a disappointed David Lynch fan, back in 1997, that the only reason I was so deeply impressed with "Lost Highway" was that I hadn't seen "Bue Velvet", in which he does much the same kind of thing better. What surprised me was how very different this was from the two other great David Lynch films I'd seen: "Lost Highway" and "The Straight Story", which are in turn very different from one another. ![]()
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