I HAVE recently come to Hong Kong from Britain and I am fond of the films of David Lynch. So naturally I recorded Wild at Heart, which was transmitted in the small hours by TVB Pearl recently. Lynch's films are often disturbing, and Wild at Heart is particularly graphic, sexually explicit, and deliberately shocking. The version shown on TV was bowdlerised to the point of incomprehensibility. Sequences and scenes were missing, or revoiced. The film was certainly not shown in the way the director intended. The characters and incidents in it are grotesque, weird, monstrous, and absurdly comic, and the film should have been shown uncut or not at all. In particular, the scenes of Sailor and Lula's lovemaking were gone, and the horrifying scene where the perverted Bobby Peru sexually humiliates Lula was cut to nothing and revoiced so it did not make sense. The purpose of the scene is to make us feel - because we identify with Lula - the full implications of such abusiveness, and evoke sympathy for the abused, not the aggressor. The transmission time precluded children watching, and I think that Pearl ought to let adults, who want to view challenging films, do so untrammelled by the dead hand of nannying censorship. JULIAN JACKSON New Territories