David Lynch's WILD AT HEART (1990)
Tomorrow I'll post great screen kisses from all over cinema, but for tonight, I watch WILD AT HEART for the zillionith time, to reaffirm my individuality and my belief in personal freedom! I love, quote, obsess and preach the message of WILD AT HEART and all my friends know it. This Palme d'Or winning tale of love-on-the-run road movie through Lynch's version of the Deep South never ceases to disappoint. Why you ask?
Sailor and Lula are like you and me. Young and American, broke but not broken, hotter than Georgia asphalt and praying that we all meet the Good Witch one day so she can give us some really good advice....
Sailor and Lula are eccentric eye-candy but if they cast this movie today, I bet Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern, gems in my eye, wouldn't be "attractive" enough to market. WILD AT HEART has endured as a cult favourite for years because it appeals to the average yet extraordinary. Sailor and Lula look like my friends. Lula was one of the few heroines onscreen that I could relate to for better or worse. They are kids with sick pasts trying to make something grow and all they have is each other, their devotion, love and passion which keeps them going despite an increasingly scary world.
As the film gets stranger and creepier, Sailor and Lula's tender love is tested more and more and I find more parallels to everyday love issues we hear on the street. Sailor hasn't had much parental guidance and doesn't think he's good enough for Lula...
Lula loves him despite all these things and luckily he realizes a valuable lesson with the help of Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender," and that's when I lose it every single time. If I could send you a cherry Valentine pie David Lynch, I'd send you 20! Thanks for believing in the story of Sailor and Lula and reminding us to that we're only "wild at heart when we fight for our dreams."
