Subject: Re: Blue Velvet ending (possible SPOILER)
From: user@darkside.com (A Modem User)
Date: 1991-08-20, 23:47
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

ecwdb@wombat.newcastle.edu.au writes:

> > 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

Remember, this is NOT the final scene in Blue Velvet! The final scene,
which I will not mentio for those TWO OR THREE of you out there who have
yet to see the film, is so honestly decent and touching that there could
be no doubt that Lynch has his heart in the right place.

Of course the robin is fake. Of course the whole idyllic picnic scene is 
a bit goofy -- a touch of the 1950's "Aw shucks, you just gotta laff at 
the wacky world" sitcom was imbedded. But snicker in knowing postmodern 
glee all you want at this scene, NOBODY I know has ever NOT taken the 
final coda of the film seriously. With this in mind, how cynical does the
ending finally seem?

                    -Uzer