It's Complicated
David Lynch, one of the independent directors of American cinema, "betrays" the lands he lived and tells us that the American Dream is literally a dream. Young Jeffrey, who finds a cut ear in the garden and is a detective, falls into a mysterious world with Sandy, the daughter of the detective. As Jeffrey follows the tips, he meets Dorothy, who missed the family, and they start a relationship. When Jeffrey tries to save Dorothy from the situation he is in, he fights off the bad guy Frank. At the end of the movie, the good will defeat evil. Jeffrey lives a happy American dream in white-fenced houses with his dream girl. When we left the psychoanalytic theories, this is the summary of the movie in general. But what does the movie actually show us?
Here Comes Subconscious
The Blue Velvet movie starts with a big blue screen with the same name. Then the white fences, red flowers and blue sky create an image reminiscent of the American flag. All these peaceful images come to an end when a man floats in the garden. The camera falls into the grass and drifts us towards the real reality, the darkness. In this reality, there are only insects that feed and mate. In this scene we are actually shown that we are all simple creatures that are merely programmed to mate.
The rest of the movie is made up entirely of reality and imagination. The reality is the day, the dream is the night. Daytime we follow a normal flow of life. In the evening, strange characters and eerie events are shown.
The Curse Of Dorothy
The entry of Jeffrey's character into the darkness begins with encountering Dorothy. The director puts us under his consciousness in Jeffrey's wardrobe scene. Jeffrey follows the woman in front of the cupboard and then the woman's exposure to violence. The director right here emphasizes the odal complex of the male individual. Jeffrey sees her mother as her mother and her father. The children think that the fathers hurt their mothers during the phallic period called by Freud. This scene is exactly what it symbolizes.
Is It Real or Dream ?
The final stages of the movie are returned to the white-fired red-fire scenes. Jeffrey became the owner of the government after he took the bad guy. The other character of the movie, Sandey, says that the bird he sees in his dream is a window. Here the perception of reality is distorted. In fact, the whole movie is the truth of the dark world we have seen at night that tells us. The peaceful things that appear in the daytime are dreams. Is not the real world we live in exactly? David Lynch annihilates the American dream, as well as strikes our world with all his nakedness.
