

from the raging fire in the opening credits surging to Strauss to the hoaky Elvis- panavision screen at the end, I just loved it. Only two of my other girlfriends managed to stay through it, and they found it to be terribly offensive and disturbing. And yet there´s this purity in him and this belief in love that is almost cartoonlike and childlike." Here´s this guy who´s so weird and does things that are so terrifying to the psyche. And that´s the thing that´s so beautiful about David. "The thing that is so great about Sailor and Lula is that it´s sooo sexy because of the love. As Lula puts it, 'the whole world is wild and heart at weird on top.' As with many of David Lynch's works, it's a love story that depicts a cheesy smooth-surfaced 'real world' facade as nothing but a thin permeable layer to the pure weirdness that lies beneath. I first saw it when I was a freshman at KU, with a gaggle of girlfriends from my dorm floor, many of whom will always be vibrant characters in my memory. Wild at Heart is one of David Lynch's less known films, despite winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
