![]() ![]() With that knowledge in mind, there are some absolutely insane situations that are played out between the two actresses, adding yet another layer of subliminal craziness to a film already overflowing with increasingly cracked conditions.īoth still fresh faced and creatively hungry, Dern and Cage give more of themselves to their characters than any since. Yet, Lynch’s most bizarre personnel choice within is casting Diane Ladd, Dern’s real life mother, as her notoriously demented on screen mom, Marietta Fortune. Freeman as Marcelles Santos and a puppy-eyed Harry Dean Stanton as Johnnie Farragut. Only from the mind of David Lynch.Ĭarrying us through tonal shifts of overwrought campiness and stomach-churning sexual transgressions are a pair of selfless young actors in Laura Dern and Nicholas Cage, both throwing caution to the wind allowing Lula and Sailor to boil over with heedless romantic passion that leads them down a road trip rabbit hole in which the pair of lovers run from Lula’s jealousy crazed mother and her team of hired hitmen which include a tiny-toothed Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru, a hard-nosed J.E. Who would have thought that Barry Gifford’s pulpy novel could be blended like a sugary spiked milkshake with the likes of ‘Love Me Tender’ and Glinda the Good Witch. ![]() And despite a plot that weaves in spousal murder, Elvis sing-a-longs and a warped Wizard of Oz motif, Sailor and Lula still receive their happy ending in the sun. Alternately weird and romantic, hysterical and disturbing, Wild at Heart is a farcical melodrama heightened by sweltering sexual passion, non-stop pop culture references and a remarkably unhinged sense of the contradiction between self-confidence and diffidence. Midway through David Lynch’s Palme d’Or winning, bizarro road-tripping love story, Lula tells her lover Sailor, ‘This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top,’ as if describing not the actual world, but the cinematic pop-nightmare universe which Lynch has envisioned for them to inhibit. ![]()
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