Sailor (Nicolas Cage) wordt ontslagen uit de gevangenis en wil met zijn vriendin (Laura Dern) naar Californië. Haar moeder is hier fel op tegen en stuurt een huurmoordenaar achter hen aan om Sailor uit de weg te ruimen. Niet alleen omdat hij haar dochter van haar afneemt, maar ook en vooral omdat Sailor meer weet over iets wat in het verleden is gebeurd.

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6. When is the film Wild at Heart set? (YEAR)

7. Who stars in the film Wild at Heart ?

8. Who plays the main role in Wild at Heart ?

9. Who is your favourite character in the film Wild at Heart ? (Why?)

10.What kind of person would like this film Wild at Heart ?

Brief summary

Basically, it's a road movie and a love story like Bonnie & Clyde, with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern running across the South, chased by two of her mother's lovers with murderous intent. He is a sailor just out of prison, a low-life rock and roller who would be a rebel if only he knew what conventional life was all about in the first place. She is a screwed-up teenager, raped at 13 and now reacting against the witch-like angst of a mother who planned her father's murder and is now determined to protect her in similar bloody fashion. Everyone has a worm in the bud, eating away not just at their happiness but their sanity.

The story is told with an almost cartoon-like ferocity and a virtuoso appreciation of how to make the ordinary seem strange and the strange seem unutterable. Lynch's camera plunges through sequences as if hell-bent on showing you something you've never seen before.

His imagination is likewise able to cause insomnia. Heads explode, dogs run off with severed human hands, and even sex becomes an erotic battleground that could well end in violent disaster. Lynch's portrait of everyday America is of a culture so ugly and so banal that when something awful happens it is not so much a surprise as perfect logic. If his lovers are slightly crazy, they seem to have every right to be.

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Alle personages en gebeurtenissen, die Lynch het publiek in zijn nieuwe film voorzet zijn grotesk, waarbij dreiging en geweld in hoog tempo worden afgewisseld door sensualiteit en romantiek. Het levert een scala aan ‘achtergronden’ op, waarbij moord, incest, abortus, SM-rituelen een rol spelen. Lynch doet dat voornamelijk met behulp van flashbacks, vooral wanneer Lula en Sailor in bed – nooit zonder een brandende sigaret onder handbereik – (angstige) herinneringen en (seksuele) gevoelens uitwisselen.

All the characters and events that Lynch presents to the public in his new film are grotesque, in which threat and violence are rapidly alternated with sensuality and romance. It provides a range of 'backgrounds', in which murder, incest, abortion, SM rituals play a role. Lynch does this mainly with the help of flashbacks, especially when Lula and Sailor in bed - never without a lit cigarette within reach - exchanging (anxious) memories and (sexual) feelings.

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