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Wild at Heart (1990)

★ 7.0 · 1,896 ratings on TMDB

A wild and crazy love story.

Wild at Heart poster★ 7.0

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

DirectorDavid Lynch
CastCalvin Lockhart, Diane Ladd, Grace Zabriskie, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini, J.E. Freeman
GenresCrime, Romance, Thriller
The emergence reading

Wild at Heart keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, freedom, authority, rebellion, power.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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