Although from the perspective of the plot, "Shuangfeng Town" is an out-and-out suspense drama series, and it can even be said that there are many American dramas that have used it more or less for reference, but David Lin Qi's shaping of "Shuangfeng Town" is not just as simple as weaving a complex and simple crime story. The introduction of mysticism is almost a reincarnation of the core of "Shuangfeng Town". Those psychoanalysis and dreams are like reappearance. A layer of tulle that can never be uncovered tempts the audience to explore step by step.
As the core of the plot development, the story closely revolves around the town of Twin Peaks, a claustrophobic and pleasant town close to the northern edge of the United States. This kind of closed space-like setting is simply for a suspenseful drama series. It can't be more perfect: the size of the space is just right, the number of characters and the arrangement of the scenes are all in a good range of freedom and controllability. In the first season, in addition to the description of the murder, a large part of the pen and ink was allocated to the display of the complex relationship between the characters. Therefore, the details are endless, the suspense is full of confusion and confusing, although the murder of Laura is The focus of the plot, but in the early stages of the plot development, even though the audience watched carefully, it is difficult to distinguish how a certain character or a certain branch is related to the main line. Generally speaking, this kind of large-area layout is more difficult to master, and it is easy to leave loopholes for one and the other, which affects the logical perception and overall experience of the entire play. In this regard, "Shuangfeng Town" is still very good at the heat. The advancement of the plot is not lacking in twists and turns but the pace is steady. It is only in the closing stage of the second season. Taking into account some unfinished branch lines, the pen and ink are scattered, causing a certain degree of "out of focus" in the plot. After the main story of the Laura case ended, for a while, the whole drama seemed to lose its direction. The many characters and events set up in the early stage did not get their own "ends", so after a little adjustment, the new The main line "The Night Watch" propped up the direction of the whole play. Although the side plots are gradually being repaired, there is no lack of hasty and hasty points. In this way, the direct response is that "Shuangfeng Town" has an inevitable decline in the second season. Not only is the wind criticized, it also affects the producer's willingness to follow-up actions, and even the actors in this series are all about it. There was a lot of grievance, so that in the film version of the prequel "Walk with Fire", the script was rearranged, and many roles had to be adjusted. Although the ideal is beautiful, in front of the film and television industry machinery, no matter how exquisite works of art have to compromise for the sake of commerce, the biggest regret of "Shuangfeng Town" is this.
Speaking back to the plot. The most fascinating part of "Shuangfeng Town" is the unique style that combines suspense and magic ingeniously. It is developed from a seemingly simple murder case. It is a picture rooted in religion, philosophy, mythology and legends. The mysticism picture scroll of metaphysical theory. If the display of the strange and weird in season 1 is only the tip of the iceberg, then in season 2 it has evolved into David Lynch’s vigorous stirring and cooking of the furnace, while "Walking with the Fire" The final process of putting the experimental products on the table. In the first season, Laura’s murder caused a crack in the peaceful outer shell of the town. With the tracking of FBI agent Cooper, the hidden darkness of the town was gradually exposed. Without exception, almost every one appeared. The characters all have secrets to pry into. As these secrets surfaced step by step, the complexity and entanglement of human nature also appeared time and time again. Although the audience understood that Laura’s death was not a mere murder, But the unexplainable mysterious phenomena such as the dreams of Agent Cooper and the hallucinations of other characters, such as true and false, are not clearly referred to. And Cooper's method of investigating the case by relying on the guidance of dreams to find clues and eliminate suspects, although completely unreasonable, is not so difficult to accept in the environment that Lynch carefully set up.
By the second season, the development of the plot obviously began to accelerate, Cooper's dreams became more and more bizarre, and Metty's hallucinations became more and more real and terrifying. Until the case was solved, the sudden change in the plot still had a shocking and strong impact on the audience. , If Lynch himself is willing, "Shuangfeng Town" in the 9th episode of Season 2 can be ended in another way. Afterwards, the story of "The Night Watch" and Winton-Earl, and the prequel to "Walk with Fire" are actually only two-way completions of the previous part of the content, thus making the whole story more complete.
What impressed me the most about "Shuangfeng Town" is that "evil" and the irresistible fatalistic high pressure it brings, run through the characters and even human life, giving people an indescribable sense of sadness. In the story of "Shuangfeng Town", the "Night Watch" is a source of evil. The red curtain at the entrance is like a mouth of blood, devouring all the goodness and light of human nature, and releasing a continuous and endless darkness. And evil. Bob symbolizes the endless greed and murderousness of human beings. He invades people's hearts and leaves a black hole that can never be filled. In addition to harming the host, he also makes it difficult for people around him to escape. Laura resisted in the shadow of her biological father and had nowhere to go. Even though she tried her best to preserve her personality, she still inevitably fell into a negative self-will in the end. The theory that "evil can overcome righteousness" is not an iron rule for "Shuangfeng Town". The ultimate manifestation of this fatalism in the ending of the second season is even more desperate. Even the incarnation of justice, Agent Cooper, lost his way because of falling in love, although Bob said to him "wrong, you are not the one I want" and promised to let him return to the real world, but In the end, Cooper was restrained by another self who was incarnation of the evil in human nature, and was trapped in the night watch. He walks through the maze of red curtains, and the ferocious himself behind him is chasing after him, and he has become one of the most classic and creepy shots in "Shuangfeng Town". The film version of the prequel "Walk with Fire" focuses on restoring the whole process of Laura's murder. The power of evil has reached another extreme here. The audience clearly knows what the final ending of the movie is, but they have to look at the evil one. Bit by bit swallowed a person who was originally pure and lovely. In the second half of the film, the switching between day and night is unusually frequent, and the passage of time is maddeningly fast. Laura watched her biological father step by step, but she couldn't avoid it. The seemingly absurd reality happens every day, but no one knows it, and there is nowhere to tell. The scene where the psychological activity of fear is alienated into reality is even more shocking than the drama version. The series version of the regular characters are missing a lot, but the frequency of the appearance of the ghosts and monsters in "The Night Watch" has greatly increased. Although at the end of "Along with Fire", Laura, who was freed from death, was finally able to laugh with tears, but the angel who guarded her floats low in the room of hell, her eyes do not know where to look, this kind of intense The contrast between the two has an extremely weird sense of beauty, or perhaps it is Lynch’s alternative compensation for the shocking anti-idealistic ending of the second season. Except for Laura’s story, the lives of other people in Twin Peaks are not without incidents. The Martell family, Donna’s family and James, Audrey and her father Benjamin and Chu
In 2015, David Lynch announced that "Twin Peaks" will restart the third season, which also means that the actors of the year, after the baptism of years, will return to this big stage. At the end of Season 2, Laura Palma said to Dale Cooper: "In 25 years, I will see you again." Now, the agreed deadline is approaching, and time will once again bring us back to that memory. In the small town in China, there are some unsatisfactory things, and perhaps they will be fulfilled again. Nowadays, in the American drama world, it is common for old dramas to be continued or remakes. Some people do not agree with this, and some people strongly support it. And I think that the classic freeze frame is certainly a beautiful scenery in film history, but many years later, it is a blessing for the deceased to gather together again to show others in the drama. Twin Peaks, see you in 2016.
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