Blue Velvet February 2, 2013

ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Blue Velvet. College boy Kyle MacLachlan is forced to return home after the ominous death of his father. When he arrives, however, he stumbles upon a severed ear in an empty field. Together with the detective’s daughter, MacLachlan sets out to uncover the mystery behind the dismembered body part, which draws him into a nightmarish world of voyeurism and sex completely unexpectedly. Face-to-face with evil incarnate (played by a maniacal Dennis Hopper), Kyle is forced to re-evaluate his perception of the world. From the dark mind of David Lynch, Blue Velvet serves as a deconstruction of white picket fence America under which true evil and darkness lie.

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