I think this is a good point that you make about the "shock value" of the movie; it's sort of dated by modern standards. When I was watching this myself, I can't say I was really shocked by seeing Rossellini standing naked on the police captain's lawn, which Ebert took such offense at, and in fact, while reading your post about the violence in the movie, I thought, "That wasn't violent!" That sort of says something about how modern standards of society have progressed towards violence and sexuality being more acceptable in film and other art forms. The only scene that did creep me out a little was the BSDM scene with Frank and Dorothy, which seemed to be the case with a number of other people in our class. This, to me, seems an indicator of American society's less positive, more repressive view towards sexuality, because if you watch European movies, even the ones that make it in the mainstream audience here, there's quite a bit of sexuality and the like in them.
Or it could be that I'm just desensitized to weird stuff in movies. Anybody else see anything to do with Blue Velvet and how it relates to society?
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