Fire Walk With Me

Ultimately, I would say it is skipabble. David Lynch attempts to show that the weirdness isn’t just in Twin Peaks but in the world around it (Twin Peaks being Weird Gate) but fails. As an audience we don’t really care  for Chris Isaak or Kiefer Sutherland’s characters much and indeed much of that sequence could have been cut without losing much of the story (or spaced in the acts). Really aside from establishing that Leland was seeing a prostitute on the side that kinda looked like Laura and murdered her most of this was superfluous and soon forgotten.

Fire Walk With Me really is about Laura Palmer’s final days and her descent into her own personal hell. There are some story elements that work but, personally, I don’t think Laura Palmer herself is all that interesting to follow.

The worst is is that it’s not a bad movie, but coming on the heels of the series finale we don’t get much closure. The finale had Cooper trapped in the Black Lodge, Audrey possibly dead, and Bob wearing Cooper’s body. To get the story of Laura Palmer’s death at this juncture *shrug.* 

Now we were teased with good stuff like the fact the Black Lodge may be outside of linear time, kind of like the Celestial Temple, and that Cooper’s dream and detachment from reality were with him before. 

Speaking of I’m not quite sure what was the purpose of David Bowie’s cameo? I’m wondering if, based on how Fire Walk With Me performed another season would have been ordered on another channel??

I guess an apt comparison would be ending Battlestar Galactica on Lay Down Your Burdens and then get The Plan as the ender. 

I should also warn that Fire Walk With Me is graphic and definitely focuses on Laura Palmer’s rape by Bob wearing her Dad’s face, as well as prostituting herself to Jacques Renault. And Coke. decent amount of coke.

So yes, disappointing but maybe lesson learned for the Twin Peaks revival on what to focus on? here’s hoping. The Twin Peaks revival has a lot riding on it.