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This 10 page report discusses David Lynch's 1986 film "Blue Velvet" and how it demonstrates how everybody lives in a society where, either consciously or unconsciously, we exist in relation to (and within the boundaries of) the reigning - or dominant - ideology. This "manner of thinking" is the manner of those with the loudest voice, the larger vote, the fatter bank-account, the better education, and the bigger church. That dominant ideology is what then governs personal identity and what is and is not "normal." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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turn their VCR or DVD player off in the middle of the film in order to go do something "normal" - something not within the scope of Lynchs world. And
yet, what may even be more disturbing is that there are numerous aspects of the movie that make it clear that "normal" thinking and action is just as "abnormal" as
that witnessed in the movie. The student working on this project should understand that such a statement is not just some form of double speak but a recognition that "normal"
is what is defined as "normal" by a dominant ideology and its related attitudes regarding what is right and wrong. Lynch asks those seeing the film to consider what they
define as normal and where they themselves actually exist as a socially anomaly. As with so many of his other works, in Blue Velvet, Lynch makes it clear that nothing
is really what it seems and that what it seems is based on the realities of the individual who perceives it. The Boundaries The boundaries that exist between realms of
normalcy and abnormality are predicated on the collective consciousness of a certain group of people. Throughout the history of the movies, film producers and directors have found that they have
a truly unique power to significantly influence the attitudes and emotions of their audiences. Films have taken full advantage of whatever it is that most thoroughly stimulates and provoke human
adrenaline. In the earliest days of cinema, movie-goers looking for a frightening thrill had choices such as Nosferatu or Phantom of the Opera. Eventually, such movies evolved to
"monster movies" which gave way to "slasher" films in which blood, gore, and more blood proved to be the key characteristics of the movie.
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