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Is it even possible to find a proper interpretation, one that would feel acceptable enough? I think it’s indeed quite possible. With the new Twin Peaks this feeling goes off the charts, and everyone devises their own way to deal with it. Intuitively we feel that there’s some logic hidden behind all the events, based on some principles we do not understand but want to elucidate. But one of the feelings he employs masterfully is a feeling of mystery and yearning to gain an understanding. Yes, Lynch performs on an emotional level in his «Theatre of Cruelty». But Twin Peaks made me think hard about the reason Lynch’s films have this effect on people. I never regarded David Lynch as an author of intellectual movies that bring puzzles to be solved, preferring to approach his films with an open heart and ready intuition this was more than enough for me. I’m talking about characters” personality shifts, incompatible realities, same faces with different names… Of course, the final episode gave me what I wanted in spades - the same final episode which became the most confusing if not disappointing for a lot of people. Aside from that, until the very finale I was missing out on a single component of «David Lynch encyclopedia» the third season became: that is, the same component which makes his LA Trilogy ( Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire) so exceptional. At least, they have left us with a wide range for interpretations.
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Surprisingly enough, Lynch and Frost employed all of these gimmicks (except perhaps the UFOs) to a certain extent, but not in such a straightforward way. Any such twist could have undermined the whole world of Twin Peaks - but everything turned out to be different.
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(obviously, courtesy of Frost) d) the infamous breaking of the fourth wall, “it’s time to remember this is a stage show for your entertainment, dear audience,” and all that jazz. What did I fear? Twists like a) everything turns out to be a dream/fantasy/hallucination b) time travel shenanigans with timeline rewrites c) aliens, military experiments etc. I was voicing some concern when there were a few episodes left to go (knowing I will feel shame for distrusting David Lynch later). The сonfused audience desperately wishes to comprehend what’s happened - especially concerning the enigmatic finale. How should we interpret the happy song of the meadowlark, or the robust flavor of a wild strawberry?Ī new Twin Peaks season conclusion once again turned out to be a blast but when it was just a dynamite blast like the one which put Audrey Horne in a coma a quarter of a century ago, now we’re talking a nuclear blast like the one in the legendary eighth episode. And the something else – the wrong interpretation of the clues – we call our world. The clues, although surrounding us, are somehow mistaken for something else. There are clues everywhere – all around us. I love stories, but I love stories that can hold abstractions, and cinema can say these too-difficult-to-say-in-words things. Twin Peaks Mythology and Cooper’s Katabasis In the meantime a several fruitful and interesting interpretations have emerged, some of these seemingly close to the outlook of this article. Much to the author’s surprise, the article has enjoyed a certain popularity in Russian web. It went through some later edits, mainly stylistic the author also drew juxtapositions with some works of his favorite Russian avant-garde poets (cut down to one Kharms’ poem here, translated with a helpful advice of Jenna Moran). This material builds upon the assumption that the creators of Twin Peaks (primarily implying Lynch) are employing dream logic rather than using some code-yet the author tries to make sense of this logic by drawing upon Buddhist, depth psychology and mythological worldview associations. This article was written in October 2017, when Twin Peaks Season 3 impressions were extremely fresh, the Internet was abuzz with various interpretations, and the author was feeling that there are too many people (at least on Russian web) who are overly fond of deciphering some would-be clues or overly accustomed to the language and notions of modern sci-fi pictures. Twin Peaks Mythology and Cooper’s Katabasis