Wild at Heart is ultiamtely a deconstruction of the fantasy-romance of movies, using The Wizard of Oz has a template, and Natural Born Killers was a deconstruction of the media and the cultural obsession with violence both were meditations on America in the '90s, though the latter film is arguably the better. However, Wild at Heart' s attempt to eschew the raw nature of the film by reigning in the finale and lending it a happier, more romantic ending tended to come out a little counterintuitively for the edgy genre it flirted with throughout the rest of it. Both films certainly shared a penchant for violent realism held together by chaotic and messy relationships that would give the Joker and Harley Quinn a run on the crazy meter. Despite being criticized for its 'psychedelic' and often crazed scenes, the movie went on to become a cult classic. On the run from authorities and anyone else who would stop them, the rebellious pair drives through Lynch’s fantasyland of incendiary violence, rabid sex, and references to The Wizard of Oz-the lot of it described best by Dern’s character: “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” A strange blend of goofy humor and frighteningly dark situations, Wild at Heart reeks with the smell of cigarettes, sexual abandon, bloody violence, bad teeth, and vomit.ĭespite both movies being very similar, Natural Born Killers likely edges out Wild at Heart in a straight comparison between the two. This Bonnie and Clyde-esque road movie and love story features Nicolas Cage as a criminal Elvis wannabe and Laura Dern as his white-trash goddess.

Despite the seemingly sweet ending that harks at a romantic twist, this twisted romance film had a sexy edge with plenty of raunchy scenes and sexualized dialogue, was laced with profanity, and had some pretty severe violence in it too.Īs a great way to sum it all up, here's what Brian Eggert said about the film in an introduction to his piece in Deep Focus Review:ĭavid Lynch achieves combustible, grotesque poetry in Wild at Heart, the director’s highly divisive film from 1990. A weird interaction causes him to experience an epiphany that makes him go back for them.

By the end of the film, Sailor rejects her and their son and tries to leave them, ostensibly for what he believes is their own good.

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