It explodes at the edges with a pent-up energy – the dancing scenes erupt into frenetic frenzies that seem to be trying to let something out. Wild at Heart is a 1960s rock’n’roll road movie but it is also like an apocalyptic road movie that charts less physical terrain than it is a journey through deranged places of the mind. Wild at Heart is one of David Lynch’s finest movies.

They seem like visions of 1950s rock’n’roll movies gone to Hell. Lynch’s films seem caught between a cod akilter banality and eruptions of the perverse and dangerous that lurk beneath a patina of normalcy. (2001) and Inland Empire (2006) – travel through extremely bizarre mental space. All of David Lynch’s subsequent genre films – Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks (1990), Wild at Heart, the Twin Peaks tv series (1989-1), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Dr. Lynch started out as a filmmaker making Eraserhead (1977), one of the cultiest, most bizarre films ever made. David Lynch makes Mondo movies from the inside looking out.

David Lynch is a man who inhabits a very disturbed headspace.

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