Honestly, I thought my heart would explode at the moment above. Has Lynch ever been this swooningly romantic? No holds barred, with no worms squirming in the grass underneath the lovers’ feet? I was stunned. Not just at the moment but how emotional I got in response to it.
Keith Uhlich’s re-cap over at MUBI digs deeper into this, and other scenes.
Side note: I can’t tell you how happy I am to see Jay R. Ferguson (aka “Stan from Mad Men“, aka It’s Creepy How Much He Is My Ideal Man, aka I am in love with Stan) show up here, in a role so opposite from wild-man Stan …
… that there are zero similarities whatsoever. Stan? Clean-cut? I was so happy to see that Keith pulled out my favorite line-reading in the episode: “KIDS-uh!”
At this point, I am 80% certain that Audrey Horne has been in a coma since 1991 or whatever with the bank explosion and that this interminable argument with her husband has been her ongoing coma-dream for 25 years.
//I was stunned. Not just at the moment but how emotional I got in response to it.//
I am seriously choking up just reading about it. That moment was a gift. I can’t think of any other word to describe it.
And then, Margaret’s last phone call with Hawk, and the scene after it. I completely lost it when Sheriff Truman took off his hat. (And again. I’m choking up just thinking about it.) That was such a beautiful tribute to both the character and the actress.
Oh God, Log Lady.
I couldn’t even take it. Hawk’s gentleness with her … he didn’t muddy up the emotionalism of the moment by falling apart. He was just there for her, listening to her final moments.
It was incredible.
It truly was incredible. Her entire soliloquy about the fear in letting go and death being a change, not an end was just . . . In its own way, that was a gift, too. And Hawk’s quiet “Goodbye, Margaret” after she disconnected the call. Oh, my heart.
It was almost transcendent in its simplicity – to get fancy about it. Imagine how this moment could have been ruined or sentimentalized by another filmmaker …
A scene like this shows that Lynch can do almost ANYthing. Hard to imagine a director like Tarantino (whom I also love) pulling a scene like that off.
When Lynch gets sincere, he gets very simple. Like that Big Ed Norma moment … her hand coming into the frame onto his shoulder. BAH. Tears in my eyes as I type!!!
What do we think about Dougie’s electrocution? Do you think Dale Cooper will be zapped back into existence?
//Do you think Dale Cooper will be zapped back into existence?//
That’s definitely my hope. And the fact that Jeffries did actually recognize Evil Cooper as BEING Cooper makes me think that it’s not so much that Evil Coop needs to die as it is that the two need to be integrated. Kind of a dissociative identity divided into two bodies. Which would say things about Cooper that I would honestly rather not believe – that even Cooper as we originally knew him had the capacity for that darkness.
I would like to think that the scene with Ed and Nadine and Norma at the beginning was a message right up there with the “bear with me” bear head in Ed’s Gas Farm, letting us know that our patience will be rewarded and we are going to get at least some of what we want by the end – which would definitely include, for me, Cooper restored and reunited with his friends. But I know better than to pin all my hopes to that!
// Which would say things about Cooper that I would honestly rather not believe – that even Cooper as we originally knew him had the capacity for that darkness. //
I know. I was thinking the same thing.
also – what the HELL is going on with the texts to Diane about Vegas? and what went down between Copper and Diane? I haven’t re-watched earlier episodes – whatever happened AFTER Cooper turned into Bad Cooper, right? I’m a little muddy on the details.
// But I know better than to pin all my hopes to that! //
hahahaha I know.
For someone like Lynch – he may have thought “Okay, that’s enough catharsis and closure.”
But there are so many details left hanging out there. Sheriff Truman and the old key … Laura’s diary pages … Sarah Palmer – !!!!!
I felt like the look on Madchen Amick’s face when she was watching Norma and Ed’s reunion was US. She was us. It was such a beautiful expression – not just happy, but BURSTING with emotion. Such a great button to the scene – it kind of validated the strength of my own response.
and what about Charlyne Yi screaming??? SO GOOD. I have no idea what it means.
But it was so effective.
I also found this link pretty interesting: http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/theories/dale-cooper-ruby-screaming-video/
As well as the lyrics to the song in the Roadhouse scene at the end. Apparently an axolotl is an amphibian native to Mexico that has external gills and fins that resemble wings. Sound familiar?
(I do want to note, though, that real axolotls are harmless and kind of adorable.)
// But remember, we’ve seen outside events affect people inside the Roadhouse. //
See this is the kind of left-brain analysis that is difficult for me. I get swept away. I miss things, I miss connecting links. It’s so obvious now that I read that sentence – I look forward to a re-watch.
The way I saw all of those final scenes at the Roadhouse was not as a commentary on the events before (silly, I know – I should have thought deeper about it) – BUT a representation and a reminder of all the bad and sad shit that CONTINUES to go on in Twin Peaks. It’s not just the adults – the ones who remember what it was like 25 years ago – the kids of Twin Peaks are into all kinds of weird shit too. Same shit, different generation.
But now I look forward to seeing those scenes in a deeper frame of textual reference.
I just got goosebumps watching that video with the two scenes synched up.
Incredible.
Hahaha the bank explosion scene is my favorite Twin Peaks scene ever. For many many years I didn’t think I would ever see someone referring to that scene.
Wait a minute, for 26 years to be true. Here in Germany that episode was aired in 1991.
And eversince then I asked myself, what happened to Audrey.
I mean I always thought she must have been crushed or heavily injured with scars in her face and stuff, since the explosion even blew out Dell’s (hilariously large) glasses and even some money.
And thanks god David Lynch brought back Audrey’s dance again!