“You fall in love with the first idea, that little tiny piece. And once you’ve got it, the rest will come in time.” — David Lynch. Having watched Mullholland Drive and Twin Peaks, I had gone into Blue Velvet expecting everything you do from a David Lynch film. Although made years before any of the other two, and right after his massive failure with Dune, the film encompasses typical Lynchian elements: the absurdity of a depraved world, the bizzare but phantasmic nature of events taking place, and the plight of characters who marry into it. I can see why people mistake it as a prequel to Twin Peaks.