Uncoiling like a fractured fairy tale, Wild At Heart is a nightmarish re-imagining of The Wizard Of Oz, in which mother Marietta is the Wicked Witch of the East, the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man are replaced by a motley crew of Lynchian weirdos, and ineffectual wish-making is accompanied by the clicking of red stiletto heels. Freeman) after them with diabolical consequences.
Hellbent on rescuing her daughter from the clutches of a ‘murderer’, Marietta sends both her detective boyfriend Johnnie ( Harry Dean Stanton) and gangster associate Santos ( J.E. Lovestruck Lula is waiting for him upon his release and the twosome promptly hit the road to in an effort to dodge Lula’s disapproving psychotic southern-belle of a mother Marietta (Laura Dern’s real-life mum Diane Ladd). An absorbing story of a passionate affair between urban cowboy Sailor Ripley ( Nicolas Cage) and his lover Lula Fortune ( Laura Dern), Wild At Heart plays out against a gritty backdrop of in-your-face violence, madness and depravity.Īfter brutally bashing a man to death in self-defence, Sailor is set for a two-year stint in the slammer.
A steamy and seedy ode to love, Wild At Heart (1990) is the neglected middle child in Lynch’s rowdy family of attention-seeking progeny. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together, until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident – a bad omen.” (courtesy IMDB)ĭavid Lynch‘s cunningly disguised unofficial remake of The Wizard Of Oz (1939) is a rose-coloured road trip tinged with ultraviolence and absurd farce that is as much indebted to Elvis Presley and Roger Corman as it is to Frank L. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Ignoring Sailor’s probation, they set out for California. “Lula’s psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail.
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