Later, when they leave for California, thus breaking Sailor’s parole, we can get an excellent view of Lula’s nails. At the concert she will wear strappy sandals, showing her painted toes. Before going there, Lula paints her toe nails red, while Sailor cleans his cowboy boots. When Sailor is first released from prison, they leave their town and go to see the speed metal band Powermad in concert. Lula has always a dramatic attitude (see the same gesture of covering her face with her hands at the beginning and later in the film), emphasized by her perfectly painted nails. As a matter of fact, in the rest of the film she always wears red lipstick and red nails, as you can see in the second screencap. After leaving with Sailor for their crazy road trip, she’ll go through hard moments and her life will totally change. This choice could refer to her being relatively innocent in that part of the narration. The gory opening scene is the only one in which Lula sports coral pink nails and lips in a similar shade, which match her peach pink dress. Lula is more consistent in her make-up choices, because she opts for the classic red lips/red nails combo most of the time, while Marietta likes wearing something different from time to time (see the hot pink nail polish on her talons in the screencap above). Both of them are natural blondes, with the help of some hydrogen peroxide, and love wearing red lipstick. This physical similarity is surely one of the reason why David Lynch casted both Ladd and Dern. From a visual point of view you can tell there’s a connection between them: Lula is Marietta’s younger and wilder version. Mother and daughter are very different – at a certain point of the narration they’re actually enemies – but there’s a very strong bond between them. All the bizarre, eccentric, wicked, violent and ruthless Lynch aesthetic is shown at its best, reaching its peak of perfection in the star-crossed lovers ( Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace, respectively Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) and in Marietta Fortune, Lula’s vengeful mother (the actress who played the role is Diane Ladd, Laura Dern’s mother in real life). I love everything about it, which is the reason why it’s still among my favourite movies ever. After many years, I recently had the chance to watch it again: the shock is obviously gone, but the feeling you’re watching a unique film is still there. It shocked me, as if I had seen an alien, because it was different from anything I had watched so far. I strangely have no memories of Disney movies, but I perfectly remember the impact the twisted love story by Lynch had on my 17-year-old prudish self. I started to regularly attend a cinema when I was 14, so these are not the only movies I remember vividly, but are surely those who impressed me most. This is surely my case: the first memories I have of watching a movie at the cinema are linked to A Hard Day’s Night by Richard Lester (I was 5), to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (I was 12) and to David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (I was 17). She is, as far as i can judge, ready for a strong character drama.I believe the movies you watch as a child and as a teenager often leave an indelible mark on your memory and on your cinema tastes as an adult. With that comes the very dissatisfying acting of Claflin and his love-affairs, as most of the other extra's. It makes the actors being mere puppets then initiators. Altogether, this makes the flow of the movie slow and unbelievable. a few scenes further the make-up must have thought: 'shit, we forgot something!!' and suddenly, out of the blue, Collins has a few gray hairs behind the ears. At some point the story takes a jump of 5 and guess what? Nobody changed. ehh.what just happened? Did i miss something? Contributing to this feeling is the horrible make-up. It's like me looking at my girlfriend saying. It gives the film very irrational time-leaps. Important moments, where drama could be cooking and ambivalent moments and intentions - which are the key element for drama - could be exposed, the writer just jumps over those moments and continues the story with only the consequences of that drama. It's just one moment, not very dramatic and way too thin to make them be insecure to each other for the rest of their twenties and thirties. The initial moment of miscommunication between the two protagonists, which is supposed to serve as a foundation for the rest of the drama, is just one single moment of 'both-are-too-shy- to-speak-out-their-love'. The two protagonists are portrayed in their childhood. When the drama starts of we land in a cliché high school, teenage drama with shy kissing and flat expositions of insecureness etc. First of all i would not judge this film to strongly, since we're dealing with a sort of coming-of-age drama (although not being a real good excuse, right? producers.?).
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