I remember my first time with the show Twin Peaks. The beginning of the nineties: dim room, flickering television late at night. On the screen the final episode of the series.
And the enigmatic place with red curtains and black and white floor. Giant, dwarf, a beautiful blonde with pale eyes, long-haired madman with a sneer on his lips. All the talking in a strange, worrying about things which were difficult to understand. Looped, hypnotic music coming as if from the dead. The protagonist, Dale Cooper and his fatalistic fate in the final scene. As less than ten, watching all of this out of the context of feature, I was shocked. Long after the screening this disturbing aesthetics zaprzątała my thoughts and often accompanied by dreams. So far, the most harrowing emotions coming from my TV screen CRT, were related to the scheming Alexis in Dynasty, “daring” scenes łóżkowymi in Beverly Hills 90210 or combat rage, B.A. Baracus from Team A. Definitely I was not prepared for the style of David Lynch, and the fact that appeared on the same screen, where I watched a couple of hours before bedtime and advertising washing powder, made me a big surprise. A few good years later I watched Twin Peaks again – this time in its entirety. Again, like the first time, I experienced a shock cognitive. This time, however, being a man mature, knowingly accepted the production of David Lynch, as my personal benchmark of what is good in art and to this day I look at the aesthetics of pop culture forever through the prism of Twin Peaks .
TELEVISION iS NOT tHIS WHAT MAKES
Twin Peaks is an American series produced in the 1990s by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The two resulting series were broadcast on ABC. Another, announced for 2017 years, will be seen in Showtime. The main axis of the feature film revolves around an FBI agent Dale Cooper, who during puzzle solving murder a young schoolgirl Laura Palmer in contact with the supernatural world that exists parallel to the real one. Although the series employed many writers and directors, as its author considered to be David Lynch, known for his surreal style postmodern approach to cinema.
The aforementioned final episode of the second season of Twin Peaks is a perfect example of rampant vision brought to the rigid television programs, the director of Wild at Heart. Other sections, focusing mostly on themes from crime related to the main axis of the narrative, were also unconventional. The investigation, aimed at deciphering the mystery murder of Laura Palmer, every moment odkrywało to the audience more and more shocking details. Explanation of the mystery and the events associated with it, it’s even Mount Everest artistic courage of those years. All the time you have to remember that the first incorrectly political productions of HBO (and other such stations) will emerge as almost a decade later.
The greater mystery is the phenomenon of Twin Peaks . Previous films of David Lynch, full of similar motifs, were then still work niche. Appreciated by critics and artists, misunderstood and rejected by a wider audience. Twin Peaks changed everything. The audience simply loved the show. The success influenced by many factors. Starring, climate, subplots, characters and drugoplanowi Dale Cooper, who became the protagonist’s probably one of the icons of pop culture. Everything as it should be played. In my opinion prevailed, however, two issues. First tastes of a wider audience, bored with the traditional form of television evolved. The beginning of the nineties it was the advent of a new era in art and culture, called postmodernism. Twin Peaks perfectly fit into this trend, contributing to mass culture originality, which was then on television scarce.
The second key issue was the new way of approach to storytelling in series . The main axis of role-playing, and every subplot, had always been based on secrets. Any attempt to clarify its generated both numerous clues and the next puzzle. The subject often went beyond our reality, engagement with metaphysics, allowing the viewer with a flushed face expecting further explanations. Yet the most interesting is what unnamed. Sometimes too, so that the answers did not fall. The creators would leave us with more questions and their own interpretations. So we can venture to say that the author of Twin Peaks was a precursor to some form of episodic, which for decades has been improving and has become a characteristic of many manufacturing wanting at all costs to attract the viewer in front of the TV screen.
Metaphysical phantasmagoria David Lynch
the series is full of topics manners, melodramatic, humorous and criminal. But the key to understanding the mythology world created by David Lynch is metaphysics. Paradoxically, some fans it refuses, claiming that the other threads are so strong that there is no need for demons, parallel worlds or aliens from outer space. A large group of viewers even says that these motifs had a negative impact on the whole, destroying an interesting criminal intrigue.
In my opinion, metaphysics is indispensable in each image of David Lynch. The Twin Peaks in combination with reality, complements its entirety. But what exactly is it? What is the role in the series? Is it the real axis of role-actively influencing events or just surreal metaphor, in which lies the real message? The director of Blue Velvet moves, which so far has been unparalleled coverage on free television. He leaves the viewer a huge room for interpretation of what is a witness. Introduces for the first time on such a large scale symbolism that reaches its apogee in his subsequent paintings, like Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.
Is not So that metaphysics in the Twin Peaks is just a symbol? Lynch personifies the emotions that human beings torn. Mythological Bob is already rampant, wild, primitive evil inherent in man, forcing him to harm coming in the most licentious manner. Laura Palmer, being raped by her own father, he sees just Bob, because he is not able to accept the terrifying truth. On the other hand, it is a one-armed Mike. Convert it only when subtracts his arm, so that freed from evil. The symbol is clear – good and evil inherent in man inextricably. We can not get away from it. Unless you devote some part of yourself. Lynch in his work found a way to externalize the darkest human emotions. According to him, they are the result of passion, desire, or need to subjugate another human being. This just might be his metaphysics – not part of the plot, and artistic form full of hidden symbols that the viewer must himself recognize and interpret.
David Lynch never clearly not explained what led to form a Twin Peaks . Therefore, this metafizyka may also have a more realistic reference. Perhaps it is the building block of the world on the borderline of fantasy and sci-fi, where the demons are as real as aliens in the X-Files Looking at other works of Lynch, it is difficult to imagine such an option, but with the freedom of interpretation viewer can also accept the possibility. In the second season of Twin Peaks can clearly see trends move away from this “heavy symbolism” for the mysteries straight from the Twilight Zone . Surely the creators felt pressure from television, which is taking care of the viewer, she could not afford too surreal ideas. All indications are that the upcoming third season will shed light on certain issues. But I hope that, like 25 years ago, not everything is what it seems.
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