The poker tab, appearing as a track over the investigation of the murder of Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks, is an important and significant connotations. And it is that David Lynch plays with us as a card of poker in a game.
Not only is that poker is a game that is increasingly popular but we can find it even in places where we would have never imagined. You don't need play poker online or participate in an international tournament to see that we find poker, your letters, its rules, their chips and tricks every day. As it is the case with what David Lynch tells us in his works.
And that's why even the works of David Lynch does not get left behind in this sense. Is not in vain that all possibilities that could be, just what you found in the stomach of Laura after his autopsy, (Twin Peaks, Season 1, Chapter 4) is a poker tab.
This small tab is used here as a clue to channel the investigation of Laura death, Since it allows to continue the research at Jack El Tuerto, the casino-brothel where he worked. While it is not clear (at least at that time) as this form of poker comes to the stomach of Laura, its function in the chapter is almost crucial to challenge viewers and emphasize the mystery of the fact.
David Lynch is characterized by carefully choosing not only their characters or plot, but every detail that appears on the screen. This form of poker, really could indicate that this game while many deem far, is really very close to us. And it is that the poker card can be seen as a metaphor of the own series. Twin Peaks is the way in which David Lynch and Mark Frost play with the viewer along a winding road loss to find out all the mystery, as a poker player play with their chips until you reach the end of the game.
