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By Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Considered by many to be David Lynch's masterpiece, "Blue Velvet" stands as a radical and visionary act of cinema. This 80s Hollywood studio film, distributed broadly and featuring recognizable stars, possesses the ambience of a hyper-composed nightmare. Michael Atkinson's intricate reading delves into Lynch's chief preoccupations: the hidden evil beneath suburbia, the complexities of sexuality, and the frightening adult world as seen through a child's eyes. The analysis presents the film as a definitive expression of traumatized innocence, a hallmark of Lynch's work.