Lines of dialogue (i.e “this ain’t no Emerald City” and ”I wish I was somewhere over the rainbow”) and visions of the good and wicked witches form a message about how differentiating between real and the imaginary is never as easy as clicking your heels – particularly in a Lynch movie. There are numerous references to The Wizard of Oz. It’s potent like a bad dream seeping into daytime, as if painted in the gaps between consciousness and subconsciousness. Like most Lynch productions, this film – which was adapted from Barry Gifford’s novel and won the Cannes Film Festival’s prized Palme d’Or – is, indeed, a wild and intensely atmospheric ride. Or perhaps, given the film in question – 1990’s Wild at Heart – features fire as a visual motif and revolves around violent no-goodniks, it is a combo forged in that other place: the one down below. The combination of David Lynch as director and Nicolas Cage as lead actor is a match made in heaven.
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