![]() Sailor and Lula’s crime spree (actually a comparatively tame affair, consisting of a few parole violations, some assault and battery, and a botched armed robbery) is a retreat from a seductively wild and weird world of “S-H-I-tut” into the security of that place over the rainbow.Īs lovers on the lam, Sailor and Lula (played by pre-Con Air Nicolas Cage and pre-Jurassic Park Laura Dern, respectively) follow a yellow-brick road through the decidedly un-Oz-like American South, asserting their “individuality and belief in personal freedom” with a snakeskin jacket, a convertible, and some high-kicking dances. Wild at Heart takes its protagonists’ twisted, perverse subconscious as its reality: a world of circus freak hitmen, trailer trash Wicked Witches, and, well, Crispin Glover. Like their counterparts in Nick Ray’s They Live by Night, Sailor and Lula “were never properly introduced to the world we live in.”īut as with so many of Lynch’s films, the world we live in is not particularly relevant. ![]() Each of these films follows the crime spree of a pair of lovers for whom sex and violence become entangled in an imaginary world of pop culture referentiality: for Badlands’ Kit and Holly, this is the world of James Dean and teen magazines for Wild at Heart’s Sailor and Lula, it is the world of Elvis Presley and The Wizard of Oz. ![]() It is also almost certainly the most self-conscious entry in that cycle of films that comprises Gun Crazy, Badlands, and True Romance (and its bastard cousin, Natural Born Killers). (Written by Jennifer Harrison)Īmong the many Bonnie and Clyde-style road movies in cinema history, David Lynch’s 1990 film, Wild at Heart, is unsurprisingly the weirdest. Full of lurid imagery and references to The Wizard of Oz. Sailor and Lula encounter an assortment of extremely bizarre “people” while discovering hidden secrets about one another. ![]() Lula’s mother sends out a private detective and a hitman after them. After breaking parole for self defensive manslaughter, Sailor Ripley and his girlfriend Lula Fortune head down the highway for sunny California. ![]()
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