Dhruv and Cris follow Laura Dern's Sandy (from "Blue Velvet") out of her cheerfully dreamy Lumberton suburbia into the -- at first, hellishly garish, then, coldly desolate wilderness -- of the American West, trying to make sense of how Sandy (now called Lula) tries to keep her passionate romance with Sailor (played by Nicolas Cage) alive as the reality around her threatens to burn down (another one of her) dreams.
Listen to the full episode to hear Dhruv only being able to make sense of the part where the dream (and the film's combustible melodrama) is extinguished; Cris, on the other hand, argues that the film's most memorable bits are its most unabashedly fantastical and melodramatic.
Major spoilers, of course, for "Wild At Heart."
TIME CODES
Introduction : [00:00 - 02:41]
"Twin Peaks" Announcement: [02:41 - 03:32]
Wild At Cannes (Contexualizing the Film): [03:32 - 16:50]
"Wild At Heart": [16:50 - 01:10:48]
Outro: [01:10:48 - 01:18:30]
TEXT REFERENCED REPEATEDLY
"Room to Dream" (David Lynch & Kristine McKenna).
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