David Lynch’s Wild At Heart

★★★ Watched 22 Feb 2023

There is no way Oliver Stone and Tarantino weren’t going for a semi-remake of this in Natural Born Killers. As a Twin Peaks lover it was wild to see so much of the cast pop up in unexpected ways, as entirely new personas but as romantic or tragic or horrifying as only David Lynch could make them. There is a plot here, barely, but it’s unimportant. Is it wrong to call this one of Lynch’s most Buddhist films? The movie is just a wild trip about life’s absurdity and the cause of suffering being desire. That’s a noble truth right there. But in the end, though the world is “wild at heart and weird on top,” all is love and we can have the love we go after if we fight for it.