I believe David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet is one of the most perfect films ever made. This does not mean it's the best, but that everything in the film just works: There isn't one shot or one line of dialogue or one musical cue that need not be there.
Blue Velvet is a mystery story, the main character being an amateur detective. As soon as he starts to investigate, a slew of strange characters in the otherwise generic town surface. The second Dennis Hopper appears, the tone abruptly changes. The viewer has entered the rabbit hole, where will it take you now? This is the definitive neo-noir film, managing to tell a simple story in such a beautiful, twisted, and utterly absorbing way. You will never think of velvet in the color of blue, oxygen masks, or Pabst Blue Ribbon the same way again.
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