Section of El País He has devoted an article to Twin Peaks and David Lynch.
If you have not seen at least the first three episodes of the new season of Twin Peaks, better do not read the article.
A pair of extracts:
TO David Lynch He likes to watch the skin of things, but also it has surgical fantasies of "Resurrectionist". Often invades the need to tear the surface of the world, as it appears before us, to penetrate violently inside, until in his own words to "subatomic particles". The contrast between the delicate texture of human skin and viscera and organs mess this gives us hides a disturbing feeling, product of sudden access to a hitherto well-guarded mystery, he takes care to reflect amazing shapes on the screen. Lynch takes us back that feeling ambivalent child, fear and delectation, produced by the sight of blood itself a wound suddenly springing.
Twin Peaks It was from the beginning a children's story sinister, starring a detective-dimensional personality that jutted in a charming village, shaken by the murder of a girl seemingly innocent. For the agent Cooper, The discovery of this moral and ecological reserve of the American Northwest, heir to the founding spirit of the early settlers, epiphany character acquired from the contemplation of the majestic Douglas firs. Trees refer, in the work of Lynch, privacy: the memory of scientific father investigating the pests affecting the wood for the Department of Agriculture of the United States, and the stage of children's games in Missoula, in the state of Montana forest. But soon the fairy-tale forest begins to look more like Illustration the Bosco The forest has ears, the field has eyes, filled eyes and ears scattered on the floor, Lurking populated by owls and deer watery eyes. The two majestic peaks that crown the community were once the Edenic alternative to the twin towers of New York Babylon, Lynch portrayed as a modern averno in TV ad We Care About New York. Somehow, Twin Peaks, the village, It exists to make us believe that paradise Walden of Henry DavidThoreau it is still possible, but, as we get closer to him, We started checking, aghast, the natural beauty of the state of Washington are only a surface, to tear, It shows us another full scenario of ambition, violence, depression, conflictual sexuality and necrophilia. That's when we realize that Twin Peaks It is actually a postmodern allegory about the failure of the human project, a sort of theological narrative for a time when secular essence. And a morality play full of fascinating dualities: The countryside and the city, The day and the night, civilization and wildlife, beauty and monstrosity, good and evil.
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