The hunt begins in New Orleans, where Santos only agrees to murder Ripley if he can also kill Johnnie. Freeman), in control of a band of assassins, while her current fling Johnnie Farragut (Harry Dean Stanton), a private investigator, also goes in pursuit of Lula and Sailor. In retaliation, Marietta contacts her old flame Marcelles Santos (J.E. 22 months after her boyfriend is locked up, Lula defies Marietta by picking Sailor up from the facility, remembering to bring him his snakeskin leather jacket – a symbol of individuality and his belief in personal freedom (a prop brought to the set by Cage himself). Lula didn’t receive any better of an upbringing, having been raped by her Uncle Pooch at the age of 13 and having her wildness regularly reined in by her overbearing mother, a thoroughly crazy woman as batty as the Wicked Witch of the West.
The Pee Dee Correctional Institution is his destiny, with a charge of manslaughter. Sailor started smoking when he was 4 and didn’t have much parental guidance, so he quickly beats up the goon and throws him down a staircase – all to the tune of classical music drowned out by heavy metal.
Marietta Fortune (Diane Ladd) hires petty thug Bob Ray Lemon to kill the irreverent and dashing Sailor Ripley (Nicholas Cage), a man infatuated with Elvis and madly in love with Marietta’s daughter, Lula (Laura Dern). Set between North and South Carolina in Cape Fear, the film opens with a shocking scene of violence and brutality – a great first impression.
While he’s probably proud of the fact that many people walked out during test screenings and at its Cannes Film Festival premiere, the film went on to win that event’s best picture prize (the Palme d’Or), as well as both Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Diane Ladd’s supporting performance. And to think that as unimaginably freakish as the whole film is, it’s the most coherent of director David Lynch’s projects. Ild at Heart” is a chaotic ride through a surrealistic nightmare, in search of love in a vividly visualized hell, infused with a road movie basis and heavy references to “The Wizard of Oz.” Most of the time it’s unquestionably disturbing, but every so often a hint of deeper meaning pokes through the strangeness.
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