The Inspiration

Blue Velvet, directed by the king of thriller surrealism throws the hero of the story into a murder plot, drugs, women and the clutches of a man with no morales or apparent sanity. This is the kind of act that lands average joes in adventure, finding a human ear on a chance visit to your hometown and having the rug pulled from under you.

The hero of Blue Velvet is Jeffrey, modelled on the director in his youth, Jeffrey is a young man, working a good job away from home until his father is struck down with a serious illness. Jeffrey returns home to visit his father in hospital, on his way home he cuts through a field wherin he finds a partially decomposed human ear, festering i the undergrowth. He takes it to the police station. If Jeffrey had not found this ear he would not have been at the mercy of a dark man, a man beyond morality and the law. This man.

This man is the underbelly of small town america, a home grown sociopath that is left to the imagination. A villain thats only noticeable chracteristic flaw is drug use and violence. We know nothing of his past, nothing of his desires, only his actions, and Jeffrey's innocent act of helping the community adversely effects his future putting him in the path of that man. But if he didnt find the ear, that wouldnt be a very good film huh?

Heres a taster to show you the final thrilling product.