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david lynch's apology for twin peaks

  • Apr. 7th, 2002 at 11:24 PM
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i watched twin peaks: fire walk with me, david lynch's movie prequel to the tv series

here is my summary of the tv show: a girl (laura palmer) in a small town is found murdered. an fbi agent comes to investigate. everyone who lives in the town is weird. bizarre supernatural stuff happens, and it turns out that the girl was murdered by some creepy evil guy named bob. things get weirder and more supernatural and more nonsensical. the end. (here are some previous comments on twin peaks.)

here is my summary of the movie: some girls are murdered. the fbi investigates. laura palmer has all kinds of weird creepy supernatural experiences. so does an fbi agent. things get weird and nonsensical. it turns out that her father killed her and the other girls and that all the supernatural stuff was people's dreams or imaginations or a metaphor. the end.

in my opinion, this is david lynch's apology for what a fuck-up the tv show became. it just went off into lala land and made no sense and was just a bunch of supernatural crap running around not doing anything. so instead of continuing that in the movie or just bringing it simply back to earth, lynch leads you into the movie thinking you are going to get more bob, more backwards-talking dwarf, and all that. and you do at first, but it gradually becomes clear that those things are how laura saw her world. bob was the way she kept herself from seeing what her father was. all the other supernatural stuff in the movie (almost) can be seen as laura's (drug-enhanced) visions of her life or other people's dreams. in a few cases they are metaphorical exagerrations of reality, as when harold sees her as possessed for a moment. there is some stuff i can't explain this way (david bowie? the disappearance of the first fbi agent?) but that's my take on it.

so to david lynch i say: apology accepted. now apologize for lost highway you bastard.

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[info]xmutex wrote:
Apr. 7th, 2002 11:30 pm (UTC)
you will enjoy mulholland drive when you are forced to watch it.

you will thank the powers that be.

you will say, david, i am sorry.
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[info]leshii wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 05:49 am (UTC)
seems that he didn't like how twin peaks went off into nonsensical land for no real reason.

so

i would guess he won't like mulholland drive.
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[info]optic wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 10:06 am (UTC)
from what i am seeing maybe i should watch the first 90 minutes and then shut it off
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[info]ginaberrry wrote:
Apr. 7th, 2002 11:40 pm (UTC)
hey, i watched that movie yesterday for the first time. now i have lost inspiration to watch the rest of the episodes (after the first season).
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[info]optic wrote:
Apr. 7th, 2002 11:45 pm (UTC)
i liked the first season of the show.
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[info]evan wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 08:13 am (UTC)
FWWM was actually a conclusion to the entire series, because it was cancelled on a cliffhanger. There's one scene where Annie appears in Cooper's bed and mumbles something about the black lodge...
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[info]flying_blind wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 03:19 am (UTC)
Twin Peaks started out as one of the most interesting things that had ever been on television, and then deteriorated into nonsense. I think David Lynch is one of those guys who can't finish anything because he doesn't know what he really wants to say. Most likely, he doesn't believe much, if anything at all. But then, I haven't seen Mulholland Drive. Some people I know who usually hate David Lynch's work actually like that movie, so maybe he's finally figured out what he's up to.
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[info]leshii wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 05:57 am (UTC)
david lynch can't finish anything, you're right. i like his stuff, but mulholland drive is a shining example of him not knowing where he wants to go and thinking that people will settle with the "whoah, that's fucked up and cool!" reaction to his movies. and they do.

i enjoyed mulholland drive for the way it looked, really. the movie makes sense and is enjoyable to watch unfold for 90 minutes and then, suddenly, for no reason whatsoever, becomes 30 minutes of nonsense, like no script was even written, and it was just what lynch felt like filming that morning. that's not fun. that's a let down.
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[info]optic wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 10:07 am (UTC)
gee sounds EXACTLY like lost highway, except lost highway stopped making sense earlier
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ex_snej373 wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 10:45 am (UTC)
Au contraire
I have to completely disagree. The ending of Mulholland Drive does make sense, albeit in the typical dreamlike way of David Lynch's other stuff, and makes you completely re-interpret what came before.

Salon has some very good articles analyzing the movie ... go check them out.
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[info]xmutex wrote:
Apr. 9th, 2002 08:31 pm (UTC)
uhm, just because you didn't like it doesn't mean that people "settle" with reactions to his films. sheesh.
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[info]optic wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 10:09 am (UTC)
i exactly agree on twin peaks. i don't know.. i might see mulholland drive eventually. but i have 140 movies on my netflix queue, and i'd rather see any of them than another lynch movie. :)
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[info]curly wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 06:48 am (UTC)
thank you. lost highway was the worst movie i have EVER seen, and i've seen some real stinkers in my day.
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[info]auditorium wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 07:00 am (UTC)
I think you should give Mulholland Drive a chance (It's out on DVD, this week and I'm buying it). It's much more cohesive than Lost Highway. I think it's one of his best films in awhile, but then I'm the dork who squealed when he said my name.

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[info]xmutex wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 07:19 am (UTC)
Mulholland Drive.. rent it for the hot girl-on-girl action and stick around for the rest.
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[info]mileshedgehog wrote:
Apr. 8th, 2002 07:51 am (UTC)
I watched the movie LONG after I watched the series (originally) and so I was under the impression Bob was an entity with different hosts - that's how the series explains it. So I could never watch Fire Walk With Me in the same state of mind you did. Or something. But after watching it for the first time last year it did make me want to watch the whole series agayne and I did :)

Mulholland Drive - my namesake (Naomi Watts) - nuff sed ;)
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