Critic’s Corner

The Feel of Blue Velvet on Poppers

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet takes you in and out of suburbia’s seedy underbelly from the perspective of the audiences’ proxy, Jeffrey Beaumont. Now this little freak isn’t your typical movie protagonist. For example, Jeffrey finds and picks up (without gloves) a severed ear and keeps it. It only gets weirder from there.

Jeffrey eventually goes steady with …