Wild At Heart

IMDB Synopsis

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

IMDB Rating: 7.2/10

Our Rating: 4.6/10

Our Reviews:

I already expected this one to be weird since it’s a David Lynch film, but boy did this take the insanity to a different level. On the one hand, we have a vague Romeo and Juliet type plot line where Nic Cage and Laura Dern’s characters want to be together while the latter’s family tries to keep them apart via hired assassins. Molly described this portion of the film by saying, “Just to recap, the entire plot line of these two characters is just driving places and having sex.” But then the weird gets amped up to 11, with random side plots about a guy putting a cockroach on his anus, a woman smearing lipstick all over her face and body, and Willem Dafoe with a porn stache and meth teeth getting rapey towards Laura Dern and telling her he wants to “jump all around that hole.” There were moments of absolute brilliance, moments of utter nightmare fuel, and a whole lot of meandering nonsense that goes nowhere. I also need to state for the record that what they did to Isabella Rosselini in terms of hair/facial hair styling was an absolute crime.

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In a movie with too many insane details to capture, for some reason two things stand out to me: (1) the flashback wherein a loony fellow puts cockroaches in his underwear (?), and (2) the heavy-handed-yet-never-explained allusions to the Wizard of Oz. Were we supposed to like these characters? Were we supposed to be rooting for them to escape the bounty hunter? Does Willem Dafoe know he was in this movie? These are just some of the burning questions I was left with by the end.

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Art. Sometimes it sucks.

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David Lynch should have had his camera confiscated for this. Holy shit, wtaf. Everybody sucks, and is terrifying, and the women are awful, but the men are worse, and I wish the whole movie had been set on fire instead of just that house they kept showing.

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Sometimes murder just happens when you are the life of the party, and wild-at-heart. Extremely awkward sexual advances from your best girl's mother while you are in the men's bathroom might also happen, if you are wild-at-heart. But if you are wild-at-heart, it is all good, because despite Willem Dafoe stuff/teeth and spending years in jail for your crimes, you still got a fairy godmother thing to look out for you!