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Twin Peaks Week | Day 4
Twin Peaks acknowledges a certain heroism and nobility in being average. Lynch populates his strangeness with the strangeness of characters who we best resemble, our average mystic neighbour. We place in them our own beliefs and desires so that what comes out are the beliefs, desires and hypothetical actions that follow from this simulation. The closer we assume they were to us in the first place, the greater the degree of predictability, dependability and precision that follows from this isomorphism. The victims and heroes of Twin Peaks‘ horror have been predictable and dependable because we recognise them as being, all in all, like us. The weird terrors of the plot are beyond understanding and exist as uncanny manifestations of our own endless, inescapable dread.
By Richard Marshall.
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Twin Peaks Week | Day 4
Twin Peaks is infused with a deep empathy, small but significant moments of grace and connection between characters. The three and a half minute, nearly dialogue-free, brightly-lit-by-the-morning-sun breakfast scene from part four featuring Dougie attempting breakfast as Sonny Jim guides him, a smile on his face, is both absurdly comical and deeply felt.
By Nicholas Rombes.