Sooner or later, he was going to wind up here, in the dirt, spiritually naked and totally ashamed, cowering with his chosen Eve in a court of monolithic wood and awaiting judgment. For who knows how long, this walking, talking tragedy of a man-child has been running away from his unexamined life, numbing out in altered states, taking his anger out on Becky, and spiraling downward. Truth is, it probably doesn’t matter how or why Steven and Gersten got to this moment. Or maybe he was just stoned and making up crap. This is the pitch I chew.” – The Log Lady, from her Bravo introduction of episode 1, season 2. But in between there exists a firm, slightly crusted pitch with such a flavor. On the outside, let’s say of the ponderosa pine, sometimes pitch oozes out. Trees standing together, growing alongside one another, providing so much. I understand many things because of the woods. In a dream, are all the characters really you? Different aspects of you? Do answers come in dreams? One more thing: I grew up in the woods. In my heart, I can tell if the answer is correct. Have you ever seen something startling that others cannot see? Why are some things kept from our vision? Is life a puzzle? I am filled with questions. There are things in life that exist, and yet our eyes cannot see them. Can you see through a wall? Can you see through human skin? X-rays see through solid, or so-called solid objects. With this ring, I thee wed… THEORY! I think it’s possible the Palmer house is accessible via the apartment above the convenience store and that Black Lodge entities have used it to infiltrate Sarah’s home, terrorize her, and take possession of her. In Twin Peaks: Fire, Walk With Me, Laura had a vision that took her into the space depicted in the painting, explored some of its corridors, and found herself in the Red Room, where the man from another place gave her an owl ring. Tremond, had gifted the artwork to Laura. The spotted wallpaper is the same spotted wallpaper in a painting that once hung - and may hang still - in Laura Palmer’s bedroom. The scene had another connection to the beleaguered woman. If true, you wonder if The Jumping Man holds sway over Sarah at present. Freeze the image and you’ll see a face superimposed on the mask. C in a flickering vision, a glimpse of a masked, red-suited Black Lodge demon known as The Jumping Man. If there was a song in her heart, it might have been Sting’s “If You Love Someone, Set Them Free.” She was a woman on a mission of reconciliation and release. She followed a continuous white line toward her final destination, the service station owned by her estranged husband, Ed Hurley, where mechanics in greased overalls repaired broken transmissions and a decorative exhaust pipe puffed the clean smoke of righteous industry. TWIN PEAKS SEASON 2 EPISODES SERIESA series of fades told us that she had been walking this walk for a long time. She also had her golden shovel slung over her shoulder, a totem of her hard-won liberation from the mire of madness and misery, an expression of her counter-cultural opposition to the degrading muck of the world. We watched Nadine Hurley traverse a stretch of highway like so many other Lynch protagonists have done before - except she did so on foot, with a sunny smile on her face. Part 15 of Twin Peaks: The Return (“There’s some fear in letting go”) contained passages that mirrored the heartland grace of The Straight Story. The last scenes - in which these two men let go of the past, move toward each other, and enjoy a healing, redemptive kind of quiet - are (IMHO) the most spiritual moments Lynch has ever put on screen. A humble hero’s journey combines with humbling introspection to create a new orientation of the heart, one that helps him reconcile with his sibling, with whom he has had a dashed, jaundiced rapport, marked by pain and sorrow, silence and cowardice. Along the way, he reflects on his mortality, failures, and pride. Starring Richard Farnsworth in an Oscar-nominated turn, The Straight Story was a rigorously linear, slow-mo odyssey inspired by true events about a stubborn old codger named Alvin Straight who travels by tractor across Iowa and Wisconsin to meet with his ailing brother, played by Harry Dean Stanton. Occasionally, the director has meaningfully tweaked the motif, no more so than in The Straight Story, a tonal and philosophical doppelganger to the anti-hero horror-noirs and Ouroboros narratives of Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. TWIN PEAKS SEASON 2 EPISODES FULLThe cinema of David Lynch is full of rogue highwaymen speeding down a two-lane blacktop, running away from justice (or themselves) or barreling toward apocalyptic revelation they may or may not want.
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