someone on here said that the ending is not as happy as it seems , can anyone explain why its not
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Who said that?
I thought it was a perfect happy ending.
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After the footage of Dorothy being reunited with her son, with "Mysteries of Love" on the soundtrack creating a joyful mood, there's a bar or two of Dorothy singing "And I still can see blue velvet through my tears." The way I read this kind-of-ambiguous last moment is that however happy the end is, the main characters will always be haunted by what's happened to them (and will always feel the pull of darkness and weirdness?).
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The ending of the film is not upbeat because Lynch is providing us a cynical look at the ideal suburban USA. Repression is represented symbolically via facade to show that another day comes after the darkness, the flowers still bloom, the fence is still pretty, the fireman still waves every morning. etc, and it's all a load of Bull. It's part of the films social commentary on the repression of middle America.
The robin, the source of absolute love and happiness in Sandy's dream, is a most fake robin, and that was intentional. Her dream, as any dream, was not real. It's a false hope the carries with it an empty promise. It won't make things better, just like thinking "it's all over" won't really make it over, especially when you can't just erase the bad in life, such as the perversions, criminals, the dark undercurrent of things.
Then there is the final shot of Dorothy with her son. She is still wearing her wig. That facade goes on too We see early on, at Jeffrey's entrance to darkness, that it is a wig. She removes at the very moment she is at her most vulnerable.
I think it's interesting that Lynch carries us through such a turbulent emotional joyride with so many things we emotionally invest in, and people we caress so intently as we follow Jeff and Sandy throughout, but Lynch definitely has something else in mind, especially with the ending. And I think it's interesting that the ending is pretty much a slap either way you look at it, because straight forward, no questions asked, we have an overly sweet saccharine finish to a very brutal story. On the other hand, the alternative is a slap in the face to his characters, as much as he seems to care about them. Maybe he's throwing one at us the audience, telling us not to become to entranced that we might fall into some phony spell. The ending is quite complex indeed.
When will you ever learn, this feeling is all you can discern?
It's a somewhat ridiculous idyll with ominous undertones. Can and should be taken both ways. And the upbeat way... I think Lynch meant it, too, presented it without cynicism or irony.
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