Now that it's been days and we have been able to stand them, Juan Sánchez writes for Universo David Lynch an analysis of the first two episodes of the new season of Twin Peaks.
Addressing the synopsis of a work like Twin Peaks is no easy task. It is a material like a dream, It resists the analysis and dissection, common narrative codes do not work with him. David Lynch up with the resurrection of the ghost of Laura Palmer a painting that feels and lives only is understood, a picture with large shades that can be met only introspectively and intimate.
Each person will draw a different conclusion from the early stages of this season, but one thing is clear: wont leave anybody indiferent, you're detractor or a lover of the original work. yes, enter this third season without having seen the previous two is an almost suicidal company, visionarla no sense without understanding the context and previous characters, and even knowing that the idea of how to decipher the enigma that puts us ahead is complex.
David Lynch, with Mark Frost (duo seal and guarantee the quality and continuity of the work) They do not show any interest in pleasing the audience, by offering a chewed and digestible account for the general public. The viewing of this first section is distressing, even uncomfortable, and it offers barely moments of recreation, its tone is rather oppressive, closer to the film "Fire Walk With Me". We also find references cinema Lynchian, as Eraserhead, Lost Highway y Mullholland Drive. in short, we have a work that is pure Lynch, where the genius creativity unfolds accumulated for years.
Lynch breaks with the aesthetic code and internal rules of the series, turning it into something alien and simultaneously close, the first way takes away from the first seasons is taking us disorderly manner at different locations. And the small town is not the central location history, but their universe expands and extends its tentacles, creating the feeling that there are many more places where unexplained events unfold, cases of the blue rose, were treated only superficially in the original series seem to acquire a larger entity here. Things have changed a lot these 25 years, and that perennial evil we know as BOB seems to have become stronger, now not only refuge in the lush forest of Twin Peaks, with its tall trees Cooper marveled at his arrival in Twin Peaks, but also it takes shelter among the great and towering skyscrapers of New York City, that compared to their apparent modernity also hide this primordial evil.
In this world, violence is brutal, and develops and spontaneous irrationally, the first corpse before us, despite being a woman (of the, we should say), It is stripped of all the macabre poetry of that plane Laura Palmer wrapped in its plastic bag, Here the scene becomes grotesquely unpleasant, We do not have any information about that person and his people did not seem to react to his death. In fact, His body took several days rotting. Twin Peaks Laura Palmer's death was like a kind of collective drama that altered the character of its inhabitants, Here the dark and the black lodge gain step, the warm and homey world of Twin Peaks leads to coldness urbanite, where we contemplate murder but sadly not with disgust and dread.
The other important development is undoubtedly the postulated as the main villain of the new season: Mr. C, doppelganger Cooper, his dark and twisted version, whose character infuses means, wherever he appears leaves behind a trail of blood and death, He is ruthless and cruel, I mean, quite the opposite of our beloved FBI agent, In addition, It has some connection with Phillip Jeffries, FBI agent disappeared in Buenos Aires. It warns it will have to return to the black lodge, However, Mr. C seems to rebel and claims to have "a plan" to avoid.
There are also commonplace in these chapters, start in the waiting room is as puzzling as usual, Cooper we see here is not that happy and jovial of the previous seasons; It is among confused and absently, taciturn, for several scenes different inhabitants of this other world will be appearing (as Laura Palmer, realizing their prophetic words); they seem to reveal that may leave the waiting room, but it seems that this is an easy task.
On the other hand, There are also remnants of our beloved Twin Peaks, where the major points of surreal humor that characterized both the tone of the series focus, however the image of Twin Peaks is melancholy: It looks like a village stuck in time, where things do not change, in fact the population does not seem to us announcing his entry sign (51.201) it has been altered in the slightest, its inhabitants still perform their own roles and tasks, They remain the same, although obviously much older and killed by the passage of time. Twin Peaks is a town that should no longer exist, an anomaly in our time.
The last minutes of the premiere, bang bang at the bar well attested: It is a dreamlike place between worlds, almost unreal, outdated and peopled by figures from the past that refuse to disappear.
Finally, I would emphasize the scene in New York apartment, the glass box, supposedly a box that allows somehow capture or see creatures on the other side, remember that the creatures on the other side do not have a predefined and understandable to humans. Here Lynch seems to throw a nod to viewers, we also sat in front of a box that stared, We are hoping to glimpse something we can recognize. The problem is that maybe what we see is something totally incomprehensible to us. In any case, We continue patiently watching the box in search of the long-awaited answers, whom they are being buried among an increasingly large tangle of mysteries. Welcome, again, to Twin Peaks.
