"Twin Peaks": Lynch with an old sword

Thomas 2022-12-02 15:37:34

In order to keep up with the rhythm of this year's sequel, I watched the first two seasons of the 1980s. To make a small summary:

Season 1: It's great! I've always been confused about David Lynch and David Fincher. Lynch is most famous for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Road. The biggest feature of his films is mystery + thriller, and he likes to use complex techniques to create female characters. I remember when I watched Blue Velvet many years ago, I really felt uncomfortable watching the movie, because the outline of violence in it was too direct. Blue Velvet is a rare and excellent work of Lynch. The heroine is the daughter of the famous Swedish goddess-level actress Ingrid Bergman and the famous director Rossellini. It is super beautiful~ But Lynch's most famous film masterpiece is These two films, and the Elephant Man filmed a long time ago, and the masterpiece of the TV series is Shuangfeng.

It is rare that this TV series, which was filmed in the early 1990s, has no sense of disobedience when watching it today, because the plot is so amazing that it does not feel boring at all. The director subtly foreshadows each episode and progresses step by step. The more the plot develops, the more secrets and doubts emerge, and naturally it becomes more and more complicated. It is as if the director initially gave the audience a simple tree trunk. , and then keep adding branches and leaves to make the story more and more vivid, making the most of the audience's curiosity. There is a lot of blinding information in the film. For example, the sentence left by the dead girl mentioned the person J, so many characters whose initials are also J appeared inadvertently in the subsequent plots, completely playing the audience. Brain hole. Coupled with Lynch's usual shooting techniques, interspersed with some more phantom and absurd scenes, the quality of the show has obviously improved to a higher level.

In addition, David Lynch has always liked to highlight dreams, and the outline of dreams can be found in many of his works. Twin Peaks is also one of them. There is no stingy description of dreams in it, especially the finale of the second season, almost most of which are contributed to dreams, with a high degree of suspense and psychedelics.

The male protagonist is Orson, who appeared in the third season of Desperate Housewives. In fact, he is quite famous. He has collaborated with David Lynch several times, including performances in Blue Velvet, but I met him through Desperate Housewives, so before Never knew.

Secondly, I have to mention the most dazzling actor in the first season: in the early 1990s, it was the first shot to appear in a drama directed by a big director with an Asian face, and it was a close-up. It is very unusual to say that this actress is Chen Chong. And it's not a vase, it's not a trick, it's a normal role, and there are countless lines, not those vases who go to Hollywood to make a soy sauce and say they are international movie stars. Quite surprised. But after watching it, especially in the second season, I feel that her performance is getting more and more contrived, in short, it is unpleasant show-off.

What's also surprising is the shameless political stance of the director or the screenwriter. At the beginning of the fourth episode of the first season, they mentioned Tibet and said it was a country. But that time happened to be the sensitive period of Tibet's problem, so the attitude of the international community is self-evident. But it still makes me want to spray rice.

In addition, I want to complain that many of the characters in it say they are high school students. Please, none of them look as old as high school students, or American high school students in the early 1990s? And the kind of messing around outside without going to school for a day.

Season 2: The second half was a little disappointing. The first season revolves around one case, the first half of the second season is still the same case, and the second half is another case, but compared to the previous cases, the plot is a bit delayed, and some plots are completely unnecessary designs, especially It's a love drama, and I think it's too contrived after seeing it.

Season 3: Also the latest season. To be honest, the first half was fine, but when I saw the second half, I wanted to give up the show. What a director who doesn’t want to communicate with the audience, the plot is extremely abstract, and I felt that the director didn’t know how to finish it, so he simply Abstract to the last episode. It's a continuation of the first two seasons, but the style is very different. Some of the characters added are meaningless and do not give special explanations, such as the role played by Amanda. At the end, I didn't solve the puzzle, but I was even more confused. To be honest, I don't look forward to the next season, if he continues to shoot.

I have to mention the eighth episode of the third season: atomic bomb explosion, particle collision, sharp soundtrack, abstract images, black and white particles, colorful clouds, about two or three minutes long, just images. The whole episode is very abstract, and I have never seen such a way of shooting in a TV series.

At the end of every episode of the third season, there will be Band playing in the Bar in the plot, Jazz, light music, and piano solo. It's kind of interesting.

It wasn't until the third season that I found out that it was Lynch himself who played Gordon. I don't want to say a lot. After watching the third season, I really don't know what he filmed.

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