Subject: Blue Velvet ending (possible SPOILER)
From: ecwdb@wombat.newcastle.edu.au
Date: 1991-08-18, 22:14
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I might be a sick individual, but I don't think that the final scene of
Blue Velvet is meant to be such a happy ending. It has been posited in this
group that the robin devouring the bug indicates that the evil which has
touched the lives of the Beaumonts has been expunged.
However, in the shot, the robin is totally and obviously bogus. I took
this to be a shot at the kind of world-view held by Laura Dern's character (
remember her dream about the world with no robins, and the scene where she is
crying and saying "where is my dream"?). Lumberton seemed like a such an idyllic
place and yet there is an undercurrent of pure evil. The "good" characters in
the film are, to my mind, portrayed as almost contemptuously naive and so at
the end when the robin dream has come "true", the robin is obviously fake. Thus
only a naive fool would believe that faith in dreams where love conquers all etc
will overcome the Franks of the world. Hiding behind dreams and pretend games
will not make evil go away. Blue Velvet is my favourite film, but I really don't
think that the "nice" characters are meant to be sympathetically received.

Wylie Bradford