Wild At Heart | Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern | An existential stew of american mythologies...

Wild At Heart | Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern | Another great film by the master David Lynch

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Wild At Heart

	Wild At Heart Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern MGM (Video & DVD), 2004 average customer review:based on 114 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An existential stew of american mythologies...

Why'd I wait so long to rate this film? One of my top favorites for sure. Sort of the other side of GWTW if you get my drift. What a cast & what a set of totally honest very powerful performances starting with Mr. Cage who has never been better. This is one of those movies, like Gummo, that separates the real film freaks from the film class trend-followers. You can tell who the latter are cause they throw Blue Velvet up at you as a more logically structured entity. Or something.

Anyway this is a very artful peek behind the door that most folks like to keep shut. A real cultural gem!

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Another great film by the master David Lynch

Nobody makes films like David Lynch and this is one of his better ones. Pleasantly bizarre and full of great performances (Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Sherilyn Fenn, and Harry Dean Stanton among them). Nicolas Cage is good as always, but Laura Dern steals the show as a free spirit sex kitten. Diane Ladd is also fabulous as the crazy mother of Laura's character.

As in every David Lynch movie, the soundtrack and cinematography help to make it more of an experience than just a movie. Definitely worth a look-see if you have any interest in David Lynch films.

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Wild At Heart

A bazaar film noir featuring Nick Cage as a pathetic Elvis knock-off beloved in an incredible performance by Laura Dern. The surprise character is that supporting actor who quintessentiualizes wierdness, William Defoe. A film wherein critics say "Huh?" at the end. My wife rated this one a 4; I have it an 8.5 due to the fantastically protrayed characters.

Take a walk on the weird side!

Surely, this is one of the weirder love stories ever put on film! The two lead characters, Sailor and Lula, are young, in love, and INCREDIBLY STUPID. As you follow them through a surreal, hellish landscape filled with weirdos and perverts, you wish them luck ... but it's hard to take much of what transpires very seriously. There are just too many set pieces populated by bizarre characters, and somehow you just know that eventually everything will turn out all right despite the lovers' cluelessness.

Some of the production is quite lovely; in other places it's just strange. Willem Dafoe shines as the creepy, reptilian Bobby Peru. Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie and Crispin Glover do a fine job of bringing minor but memorable characters to life.

I would not recommend this movie to anyone easily shocked by fairly explicit sex, violence, or just all-around creepiness. But if you like offbeat, somewhat unsettling films, "Wild at Heart" might be right up your alley.

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