Shadow of a Doubt

Part of the special series DAVID’S DOUBLE DREAMS

This text is about both films in the double feature: SHADOW OF A DOUBT and BLUE VELVET.

“You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know, so much. What do you know, really? You're just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. Or did I? Or was it a silly, inexpert little lie? You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something.“
Uncle Charlie

In SHADOW OF A DOUBT, the shadow of Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) looms ominously over the entire small town during his family visit.As if something were intangible, evil infiltrates this American idyll.In BLUE VELVET, the brutal malevolence of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) also unfolds in a small town (called Lumberton) behind the protective curtains of night - and corrupts the soul of the place from within.