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PaperclipPerfector  6mo ago (text post)   2427 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 8, 2025

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I think I binged Twin Peaks maybe 3 or 4 years ago when it was on Netflix? Then rented Fire Walk With Me on Amazon, and purchased the bluray for The Return.

You really feel the gap where Lynch wasn't involved in season 2, but when he comes back he absolutely fills the show with a presence you couldn't put your finger on, but could feel the absence of. Then The Return cranks that quality up to 11 and is a massive impressionistic mind fuck.

I've seen analysis that try to distill was Twin Peaks, and especially The Return, are "really" about. And then I've seen the rebuttal where you need to shut the fuck up and let the feelings and impressions the show creates wash over you. Don't try to reason what it's about, intuit it.

I really should watch Twin Peaks again, it's probably one of my favorite shows of all time that I felt I got the most out of. And you're right, it's spiritual message is very much looking into the darkness of the world and choosing love anyways.

Sorry if I disappoint you but I don't have all that much to say about the particular experience of me as a meditator watching Lynch.

I liked Twin Peaks a lot though. Haven't watched it post-insights, it's a long time ago, but I remember being both deeply touched, and amused. He does seem to get the attentive viewer into a subtler form of mind and emotion space, I guess?

I found the movie Inland Empire pretty fascinating. It seems to get you into what it would really be like to be inside the experience of the traumatized person. Not sure how to describe how he does it, but I vaguely remember that no other movie did it quite like that one did.

Oh man, Inland Empire was something else! I've seen it described (I think) as a journey straight through the subconscious, and it's a good analogy. Like a series of dreams, it meanders through its scenes, some seemingly furthering previous scenes, others jarringly discordant on the surface, but regardless of the relationship of each scene to the next, there's a constant symbolic undercurrent that propels the movie forward. I can see why it's not for everyone, given that I felt it was a little too long (which, tbf, may have been because I was watching it as part of a larger David Lynch retrospective) but it was still quite an experience. If I happen to find another screening of it at some point in the future, there's a good chance I'll catch it again, as I will with most of his work.

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