I remember this movie making kind of a big stink when it came out back in the year 1986, when I was still but a kid who wasn’t allowed to watch movies that ran in the erotic, weird vain like Blue Velvet does.  Blue Velvet is considered a David Lynch classic, and some of the camera angles and different coloring in the movie definitely warrant that type of attention.

I’m a David Lynch fan.  Well, let me put it another way - I like Twin Peaks a lot.  However, his movies actually go beyond the weird and quirky and into a place that makes you feel, well, kinda dirty when you’re done watching them.  Blue Velvet is the notorious movie where Isabella Rosselini gets totally naked and exposed in so many other ways that it makes you feel weird watching the classic beauty icon of the eighties naked - and not flatteringly so either. 

There is even a scene that is a sort of mock-rape scene that makes anyone with a conscious a at least a little uncomfortable watching.  Kyle Mclachlan plays a character that we are supposed to somewhat empathize with, and yet he has such  an ovious pervert streak that it’s hard to root for him in any real way.  You almost feel like he’s dumb enough to get killed in the end. 

The movie also has a somewhat contrived plot.  It’s supposed to be somewhat of a murder mystery, but really all it becomes is a showcase of weirdness and the darkness that lurks around every corner in small, seemingly safe small towns.

If you don’t mind feeling a little strange after you watch something, you might want to rent it.  However, if you’re not a David Lynch fan, don’t even bother.  I feel like my time could have been much more wisely used for that hour and a half that’s for sure!