"This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top!"

That's one of Lula's deep reflections lying in bed next to her love, Sailor, before she breaks into tears, announcing the soon coming end of their fairytale. They are driving through the country, right after he gets out of prison for slaughtering a man, in his own defense and decides to break parole. They enjoy their drive, in a repeatedly succession of driving, wild love making episodes, long talks while smoking (cigarettes are almost never missing during the movie) revealing dirty secrets of their past, as well as their tender side.

Even though Lula was raped in her childhood and maybe now, at 20, she's not exactly an angel (given her strong sexually aware attitude and the scene where she unwillingly enjoys Bobby Peru's harassment), she is still a child inside and has a mystical approach towards life. She is naive enough not to see what a psycho, murderer bitch, her mother is. And even though Sailor has brutally killed a man with his bare hands, he is a honest man and his love for Lula is true and candid. He even spends his once-in-a-lifetime singing of "Love me tender" on her. Compared to the background characters, the gallery of freaks Lynch got us used to (the hysterical mother who wants Sailor dead, cousin Dell, Mr. Reindeer, Bobby Peru and others), the two seam fallen from heavens.

The ending is surprising, cause the last thing I expected was the couple to be reunited after he spends other 5 years in jail and then almost decides he should better let her be off him, when the good witch of Oz shows him the right way. Wouldn't it be great if the good witch of Oz would pop up with her pink glamorous dress and her magic stick and rescue us when we put ourselves through the troubles of tough decision making?

I don't think I've seen many movies being labeled in so many genres, and I can see why that is. Couldn't help smiling when, after 5 years of being apart, the best thing she could think of to ask him was:"You hungry?" or when he addresses to his "fagged" aggressors after knocking him out: "I'd like to apologize to you gentlemen for referring to you all as homosexuals. You taught me a valuable lesson in life."

I must say I found Sailor's and Lula's Odyssey inspiring and David Lynch proved one more time that beauty lies right in front of us, in the eyes of the loved one or in the snakeskin jacket, in the middle of the weird, ugly, grotesque world outside.