Blue Velvet (1986)
Figures
Form & technique
- The opening montage's descent into the lawn
Tropes
- The severed ear found by Jeffrey
- Dorothy Vallens' masochistic behavior
- The hyperreal, idealized suburbia of Lumberton
- Ben's lip-sync performance of "In Dreams" → The Unseen Voice
- Jeffrey Beaumont's character arc
- The mechanical robin at the end of the film
- Frank Booth's "Mommy/Daddy" ritual
- The relationship between Jeffrey Beaumont and Frank Booth → Homosocial Triangulation
- Isabella Rossellini's performance as Dorothy Vallens → The Abject Aesthetic
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