Blue Velvet Opening

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Beautiful music!

When I watched Blue Velvet for the first time a few years ago, I kept thinking "Where the fuck have I seen this before?!! What the hell does this remind me of?!!" Then I stumbled upon poet RW Watkins' essay "Webs in Lynch's Closet?" from his Comics Decoder site, and I was blown away! Spider-Man! Watkins compares scenes from the film alongside panels from the early Spidey comics. Google for it--it's eye-opening shit. I think he's really onto something. Now I have to watch this flick again.

Is this movie really surrealism? There are drops of surrealism in it, such as the ear. However, later in the movie, you learn where the ear came from.

I think Mullholland Drive, Eraserhead, and Inland Empire were true surrealism.

@sflachuck i thought all those movies u listed were all extremely surreal but i think the reason lynch had given away where the ear came from was because im sure he figured that the viewer had already found that out around the middle of the film i myself didnt but i do think this film is stil very surreal such as the in dreams scene and many other scenes but u do make a good point

The clip stops seconds before Kyle finds the ear on the ground.

What the opening scene shows is the violent underbelly in this impossibly perfect community.

The ear and the bugs are your entry way.

"How the hell can't you see that this isnt surrealism" ?

But I see it's not surrealism, that's the point of my comment :-) !

lol sorry i ment this is surrealism explain to me why it isnt id love to hear it

I already explained it : it's heavy handed symbolism and Manichean : good/bad, light/darkness, straight/pervert, shiny grass/cockroaches, the movie being about the two meeting up.
Nowhere in the movie is there anything close to surrealism, everything is pretty much straightforward. The Red Room/Black Lodge or "Rabbits" or "INLAND EMPIRE" are surrealism. Blue Velvet ? Not at all.
But I already explained it. What is YOUR point, except "of course it is", which is beyond weak ?