"blue velvet," those films are explicitly about how things look are not the way they really are. you have to understand, this was when ronald reagan became president, and the idea was that after all sorts of traumas, particularly watergate and vietnam, we healed, but as the public pronouncement is, "we're good again," our movies are telling us, "no we're not. no, we are not." >> wendy? i'm home. >> i play this game. all your favorite filmmakers, alive or dead, were opening a movie on the same day, which movie would you see first? and for me, it would stanley kubrick, because you're gonna see something you never saw before, and he did that in, think about it, every genre. he's gonna make a horror movie, it's gonna be the horror movie done in a way that you would not expect. >> to me, "the shining" isn't