From: sally@anableps.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson)
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Date: 29 Aug 92 22:57:56 GMT
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Some movie spoilers follow...


Wow...I had expected a very poor quality film, and was pleasantly (well
pleasant is not at all a term to describe the flick, it was damn heavy,
and extremely intense), but I found myself coming out enjoying what I
saw. The film is not for the faint, it was a hard ride. I am glad I
saw it at the matinee, there is no way in hell that I could have seen
it at night, and then gone to sleep. Much of it must have been cut,
much of what was found offensive at Cannes. In the end it was no worse
in violence and sex than much of what is out--and tamer than other 
Lynch flicks. Yet seeing a person hit an emotional and physical hell
beyond words, of finding out the horrors of ones life is hard to take.
There are plenty of dream/visions, and weird Lyncian characters to
create an even more bizarre and weirdly chilling universe. Much of
the humor is gone. The first part is quite funny, but that deals
with the investigation of Theresa Banks' murder. When we get to
the part of the film dealing with Laura it is all horror. But I think
that the humor which was in the series truly would not have fit here.
It was about a personal horror. The lack of comericials and humor
made for a frightening ride, as if we too were experiencing all that
Laura had gone through in her "Decent into Hell." Sprinkled in were
some hints as to the outcome of the series finale, and even more
questions, more odd characters who are also part of the mystery,
and who also fit into the Twin Peak, and Black/White Lodges Universe.
The film ended without dealing with what followed after the series
as was first stated--but as I said there were occasional clues,
and vague hints, which seemed to open up more uncertainities than
answer questions. The film ended in
Major Spoiler follows


The film ended in typical Lynch fashion, with a semi-positive ending.
As in his other films the protagonist does achieve a form of happiness,
Laura sees her vision of the angel, and thus the White Lodge. Throughout
the films she lamented how all the angels were gone, and then she has
a vision in which an angel disappears from a picture on her wall. 
After her brutal death, yet a death not of submission to evil, and death
which in the end brough about a spiritual triumph she see a real angel,
she is admitted to the White Lodge. Of course as with other
Lynch films although the protagonist achieves peace, the world still
has not, the evils still exist. BOB is still out there and possibly in
Cooper, the Black Lodge has not fallen, and both appear to threaten the
world of Twin Peaks, and thus the world as a whole.

But I liked it...maybe not great stuff...maybe not on par even with
the series. Yet it was very Lynch, very symbolic, and very emotional.
I looke forward to seeing more, to having more questions answered,
and even having newer questions brought up.

Spud--You may return to discussing the show now, I could not watch 
Friday's it sucked big time; I will shut up--Peel


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And I'll see you//And you'll see me          ||    Sally  A.  Wilson
And I'll see you in the branches that blow   ||    Spud   Peel
In the breeze,//I'll see you in the trees    ||    sally@mica.berkeley.edu
Under the sycamore trees       (_Sycamore_Trees_  Lynch/Badalamenti)
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