The characters in this scene will reappear elsewhere, and these events will be returned to in flashback (although importantly from the point of view of other characters, with its objectivity removed), but this is the only time we will see the world Sailor and Lula are trying to escape from. Kansas) is in its prologue, where Sailor kills a man who assaulted him with a knife. The closest Wild at Heart gets to its presentation of objective reality (i.e. Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) are two lovers who go on a road trip to escape various repressive aspects of their lives (prison/parole for Sailor family/mother for Lula). Wild at Heart continues to develop this theme in a slightly different way: by showing what happens when characters get stuck in their fantasy world. Like in The Wizard of Oz, Lynch shows us (objective) reality and the character's (subjective) vision of it, and the thematic development comes from the contrast between the two. He has explored this most explicitly in Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway, each of which presents us with two entirely different versions of reality. One of David Lynch's central thematic concerns is the way our dreams and fantasies influence our perception of the reality around us. "Did I ever tell ya that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom?"
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