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David Lynch Forces Your Brain to Work Differently
What we’re dealing with here is a work like no other, unveiled in a manner no one has ever experienced before.
As my colleague Laura Hudson wrote in her recap of the first two episodes, Lynch speaks his own language; not for nothing did he cast himself as FBI agent Gordon Cole, who is hard of hearing and “prefers to communicate largely through code” but can be understood, more or less, by people who’ve spent a long time in his company. The images of different Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) incarnations coughing up Lovecraftian hairballs might as well be metaphors for what we all had to do with our nostalgic, constructed memories of what Twin Peaks was, in order to create a more honest, accurate picture of what it actually was, and make room for the immense feast that we’ve just begun to consume. The sequences of survivors trying to speak to disappeared people through prayer or a medium are mirrored in Twin Peaks: The Return ’s scenes of separate planes of existence marked by portals (like the Black Lodge entrance that Hawk finds with his flashlight) or by transparent red curtains superimposed over “our” landscape.
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