One thing that I think has led to this problem is a lot of the cinema's that are running series (not that Blue Velvet was part of one) tend to emphasize 'good times!' in their promo and lead-in to the actual film. Trivia, performers, encouraging drinking etc so a portion of the crowd who go to these (which are good! I attend!) assume the film itself is 'fun' even if it's not and it probably bleeds into other films they see.
It gets muddier when sometimes the film will have several tones within it. Like, the 'let's f*ck!' scene is funny taken on it's own. But it seeeeeems like some members of the audience can't figure out the shift.
I had a hard time seeing 'Anora' in a packed theatre because of this. Like, broadly it seemed like Baker was going for a dark-comedy thing for sure but the audience seemed to think the whole thing was meant to be a laugh-riot and were cackling throughout.
One thing that I think has led to this problem is a lot of the cinema's that are running series (not that Blue Velvet was part of one) tend to emphasize 'good times!' in their promo and lead-in to the actual film. Trivia, performers, encouraging drinking etc so a portion of the crowd who go to these (which are good! I attend!) assume the film itself is 'fun' even if it's not and it probably bleeds into other films they see.
It gets muddier when sometimes the film will have several tones within it. Like, the 'let's f*ck!' scene is funny taken on it's own. But it seeeeeems like some members of the audience can't figure out the shift.
I had a hard time seeing 'Anora' in a packed theatre because of this. Like, broadly it seemed like Baker was going for a dark-comedy thing for sure but the audience seemed to think the whole thing was meant to be a laugh-riot and were cackling throughout.