Jackie says: I HATED Blue Velvet.

Hev says: can't say I *completely* fathom it!

BY says: I'd say the film is more about conveying a feeling, or a notion rather than a strict concept.

This all brings to mind certain films that you can actually have a love/hate relationship with. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal for instance. I remember thinking it a brilliant film, but hating it for leaving me depressed for like five years afterward! (hyperbole, folks) And I was wondering why a man of Bergman's enormous talents would choose to leave me with this pit of vacuuous meaninglessness. Tragedy is one thing, and I had already studied Eugene O'Neill, but The Seventh Seal was a tough watch (and this when I was in my 20's). Even compared to Bergman's other work, the gut-searing starkness of this was beyond compare. The only other film I recall coming a distant close to the feeling The Seventh Seal left me with was, curiously enough (and, admittedly shot as an emulation of Bergman's work), Woody Allen's Interiors. Saw Interiors when I was living in New York in '78. Everyone was looking forward to the new Woody Allen flick (though we knew it was his foray into drama/tragedy) and we were all set to go out on the town and party hearty afterward. But after sitting through Interiors we were all so bummed out we actually decided to just call it a night and go home. I'll never forget that.