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Saturday, July 19, 2003 Become a Twin Peaks fan Borrow the first season of Twin Peaks from public library after watching the movie Fire walk with me. Then I realized I watch them in wrong order: the movie replayed how the murder happens, while the TV records how the case is investigated. Well, now I have to watch the investigation while knowing who the murderer is. But it still keeps me watching attentively, for its weird characters and quant milieu. Well, actually, the TV show is far less as spooky as the movie, since, I guess, the latter is directed by David Lynch, who only did the screenplay for the TV. The way the story was laid out in the TV has a strong sense of day-time soap opera, you know, those long, blank stare accompanied by tempting background music(and the theme song! perfect conflation of jazz, new age and soap opera). But you can still glean some David Lynch form time to time: the red-room dream, the bird (same as in “blue velvet”), talking log, mysterious smirking and apperception all of sudden…And Kyle MacLachlan (he often reminds me some extraterrestrial life, ) I love the “Tibet” scene, which is the coolest whodunit analysis I’ve every seen. Bearing in mind that the series is a creation of early 1990s in TV networks, you could not but feel sorry for the loss of idiosyncrasy, style, wit and profoundity in today's popular shows after more than one decade. The ending of the first season is really driving me crazy, because I could not find the second season from any public library around. Maybe the DVD collection has not been released yet. Yesterday when I organized our album, I found a photo I took for Bin somewhere in the way we drove from Spokane to Seattle, and it creep me out: the mountain behind him, I believe, is the famous "Twin Peak", as shown at start of every show. posted by lmeimei @1:02 PM| permanent link| | |
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