Plot-wise it's the most linear of Lynch's films, with only a few elements that will leave you with a sense of what-the-hell-was-that-about. Will our hero survive Marietta's machinations? Will Lula keep the baby? Will love conquer?ĭespite its many dark and twisted elements, Wild At Heart is essentially a love story. Peru talks him into a bank robbery that's planned as a hit. Sailor hooks up with the fabulously toothed Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), a sinister drifter who's been hired to kill him. Holed up in their motel room in Big Tuna, Sailor and Lula grapple with her newly discovered pregnancy. Johnny's death is one of the film's weirder detours a crippled killer (Grace Zabriskie) kidnaps and tortures him, then shoots him in the head as the climax to an oversexed voodoo ritual with her big scary lover. Santos promises to dispose of Sailor but demands Johnny as his price. Meanwhile, Marietta sets her competing lovers Johnny Farragut (an always-reliable Harry Dean Stanton) and Santos (J E Freeman), a shady character who has something to do with her husband's mysterious death, on their tail. They stop off to sample the magic of New Orleans and then find themselves marooned in Big Tuna, Texas. The couple, awash with graphic sex and protestations of love, set out for sunny California in a convertible. Unfortunately for them Lula's mama, the gin-soaked, vindictive Freudian nightmare of a Southern belle, Marietta (Dern's actual mother Diane Ladd, in a genius piece of casting), is having none of it.Īfter trying to, alternately, fuck Sailor and have him killed, which works out well when he beats the assassin's brains out, Marietta is determined to keep her little girl away from the newly minted jailbird. Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern) are a just a couple of crazy kids in love. Seldom has a pack of Marlboro red looked so achingly cool but then cool, as with much of David Lynch's oeuvre, saturates every frame like the smoke from those ever-present cigarettes. Wild At Heart is not a good film for people who are trying to stop smoking.
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