Twelve years later, the "Midnight Show" special issue of "Cinema" magazine was announced to be discontinued. The end of this magazine that accompanied me on my movie-watching journey may be the end of my journey in the primary stage of movie obsession, and to a certain extent marks the end of my movie obsession. The spirit is evolving in another direction, but David Lynch is still launching the third season of [Twin Peaks]. And this time, it's a full 18 hours of "Lynchism" video, and I don't plan to spend another 36 hours dissecting this show, not because of what the reviews say, after watching "Twin Peaks" first, In the second season, after reading "The Mysterious History of Twin Peaks", I may not be able to figure out the third season, but I think that watching Lynch's video, it is too low-level to define it only by understanding and not understanding.
1. Dream and reality - the core of understanding Lynch
Lynch borrowed the words of the Italian national treasure goddess Monica Bellucci in the episode: "We are like the dreamers who dream and then lives inside the dream.” The peak works of Lynchism, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, can be said to be completely derivatives of this sentence, especially the former, which can almost completely be analyzed in depth with Freud’s theory. In the new season of "Twin Peaks", the director still confuses the audience with confusing time and space and editing. The intersection of several story lines makes it difficult for the audience to adapt to the main line and the core of the story at once, and some confusing scenes are not explained too much. , just let the audience feel and understand for themselves. I remember when I was analyzing "Mulholland Drive", the pillow at the beginning was covering the black screen behind the camera, and I could imagine David Lynch's sly smile hiding behind the camera, and this time, David · Lynch will no doubt laugh more presumptuously.
One of the essences of cinema is dreaming, which may be the cornerstone of Lynchism. When you accept the 18-hour baptism of "Twin Peaks", in a trance and a daze, you seem to experience an extremely intoxicating dream in life, which may be enough.
2. Faithful executor of dualism - the concept of "double" to the limit
There is no doubt that David Lynch is a typical proponent of dualism, as can be seen from his early "Blue Velvet", "Wild at Heart", "Lost Highway". The English translation of the play "Twin Peaks" is called "Twin Peaks". This "twin" means twins. In the play, it can be interpreted as the entanglement of two Coopers, but if you look closely, you will undoubtedly get more information.
First of all, there is the dualism of matter and spirit. This is David Lynch's implementation of Plato's two principles of the world, matter and spirit. The two are relatively independent, and can also be understood as the contrast between the dream and reality above. Many scenes in the play originate from people's thoughts. After people disappear, the head first disappears and finally turns into a bead. These numerous changes show David Lynch's persistence and determination to implement dualism.
Secondly, in terms of narrative method, the main line is still to undertake the Laura case and Cooper's disappearance in the first and second seasons, and incarnate into two Coopers to unfold, but at the same time, the series also contains 3 or 4 other stories. It seems that the characters in these stories have nothing to do with the main case, but when you think about it, it is really intricate, like a huge spider web spread in your mind, allowing the audience to fully enjoy the pleasure brought by the story while solving the puzzle. The most obvious one is Lynch's own character Gordon in the play. He is clearly about to get to the bottom of the case, and he is also calling for prostitutes. This style of separating the case and life, and reasoning and investigating the case slowly, naturally. The unique black humor that belongs to Lynch is formed, and the audience can smile knowingly when they are helpless.
3. The hodgepodge of Lynch's images
"Twin Peaks" is David Lynch's masterpiece after many years of "Inland Empire". The play is full of repetitions and tributes to his past images. For example, the "Diana" nameplate hanging on the chest of the waitress in the last episode is a reference to "Mulholland Drive", such as the many road film-style interpretations in the play repeating "The Lost Highway", plus Lynch's old Acquaintances like Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, etc., watching "Twin Peaks" seems to be watching a hodge-podge of Lynch's past images, even if the special effects are deliberately low-end, but what happened in the middle of the episode Time travel is still reminiscent of Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey".
In this day and age, no one does a TV show like David Lynch. This is a mysterious drama that shows the author's own tough attitude and can be admired but not discussed. It gathers the author's decades of video skills, and combines thriller, crime, plot, love, ethics, action, horror Anything you can think of. When that famous piece of music plays or ends, you feel lost. The end is like the beginning, and the beginning is like the end. To end with the words of the Diamond Sutra: All appearances are false.
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