I can definitely see the parallels between True Romance and Wild at Heart, but it's probably a bit closer to Tarantino's Natural Born Killers, in terms of interpersonal character development. And now that I think on it, I found Wild at Heart to be his next best to Eraserhead and the Elephant Man. The trouble is that there's this prevailing schema of "we're just too wild to stay apart" that Lynch violates unexpectedly. It's definitely worth a watch, just don't set the bar as high as those two Tarantino fliks (he wrote both, directed neither).
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