With quirky dark characters and equally weird visuals, it’s a shocking odyssey, one that threads its loose story together with a pungent array of social condemnation and sociopathic overload. WHAT TO LOOK FOR: To call Wild at Heart bizarre would be aiming low, Lynch serving up a Lynchian cocktail of eccentricities and freakiness that have come to define his work, but layered with all kinds of style here that are as jarring and yet entertaining as they come. On his release, Marietta is doubly adamant against her daughter seeing Sailor again, but Lula does so anyway, meeting him at the jail and heading off to a hotel to get ‘reacquainted.’ Breaking parole, the two decide to head to California, but what they don’t know is the Marietta has some devilish plans of her own and this time she means to have it done right. Wild at Heart, 1990 © PolyGram Filmed Entertainment She hires a man to kill him but it goes sour and Sailor kills the killer in self defense, going to a jail for 22 months. Here as Sailor, he plays a maniac in love with a girl named Lula ( Laura Dern), something her mother Marietta Fortune ( Diane Ladd) is no so pleased about, knowing of a dark past. THE STORY: Lest we forget, Cage has always been slightly off his rocker, but in the best way possible. So starts David Lynch‘s phenomenal Wild at Heart, a blisteringly carnal and absurdly beautiful masterpiece that is as relevant today as it was groundbreaking in 1990. ‘Uh oh’ says Sailor Ripley ( Nicholas Cage), the first words out of his mouth as he bites back a streak of rage that becomes unleashed when he is provoked, utterly wrecking a man sent to kill him, smashing his head to a pulp on the marble floor of a ritzy gala event. Wild at Heart is a 1990 crime/drama about a pair of young lovers who go on the run from a slew of psychos hunting them down.
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