In our class discussions, we came to the conclusion that Lynch's overarching theme in Blue Velvet is that all of us have this potential for evil inside of us. I can certainly agree with this; there are numerous examples anywhere you look that demonstrate this. However, what I felt Lynch really failed to discuss is the equal potential for good. Anything part of the movie that had remotely to do with the lighter world was shown with cheesy dialogue (like pretty much every conversation that Sandy and Jeffery have) and satirical scenery (like Jeffery's neighborhood) in a way that makes it seems like Lynch doesn't really believe himself when he overlaps these two worlds to suggest that they are really one, more that he's arguing that this suburban good-neighbor attitude that many of us try for is really a poor fascade for our true black-hearted nature. If he really does believe that the two worlds are mixed, i.e. that people are both good and evil (and there is just as much evidence for the goodness in people as there is for the evil), then I feel like he needed some other way of showing it because all I saw was irony.
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