BOB1 wrote:Agent327 wrote:But in terms of caring for the characters, it hasn't been a priority for Lynch in what we've seen so far.
I'm not sure if I understood you correctly - if you say it hasn't been a priority for Lynch in his previous films, I totally disagree but that seems to be way off-topic, so let's leave it.
If you say it hasn't been a priority in this new Twin Peaks, well clearly it hasn't. Yet it remains priority for me because for me film as a medium is above all about identification. After the first two parts, I don't find anything to identify with at all.
Therefore...
counterpaul wrote:I'd like to respond to this because I immediately, from that glove moment on, fell totally in love with Constance and Dave. I really hope we haven't seen the last of them. Both performances are beautifully understated (and I can imagine some people saying that Dave comes off as "wooden," but I would completely disagree--he's just not a very demonstrative guy) and hint at real depth. I also thought the "uh-oh" guy was great--there's real shock and sadness behind those uh-oh's.
In fact, I think the whole Buckhorn section has tremendous worth all on its own. I want to talk about the arrest and interrogation scenes. They completely crackle! I mean, we've all seen a million arrest/interrogation scenes in a million procedural cop shows/movies, but these scenes are special because they're not at all about solving a crime--they're about being part of an unavoidable machine. From the moment the prints come up as Bill's, there's a specific, intimate heaviness to the police officers' jobs. Hell, Dave's in almost as much pain as Bill--THAT'S what these scenes are about. By the way, the cops in Buckhorn are by far the most competent officers we've seen in Twin Peaks (and, yes, I'm including Harry and Coop in this)--they do their jobs by god, professionally and methodically. It's actually really nice to see--just the competence of it.
Both performances in that interrogation scene are beautifully measured and quite moving, and when Dave has to take Bill to his cell, it's devastating. Again, they're both part of a machine--for Dave, a totally necessary machine, but just because he can tell himself he's doing the right thing, that doesn't make it any easier--despite a lifetime of friendship.
Matthew Lillard is rightfully getting a lot of praise, but take a real look at what's behind Brent Briscoe's eyes. It's great work.
So, how's that?
Well that's great and I'm happy for you. However I must say that I had no idea who Constance and Dave were when I first saw this post. Your post reminds me of Dave but I still don't remember Constance. And I've seen the first part twice. Sorry, it just didn't catch my attention, all of it
My friend, whom I mentioned before, wrote a big text in Polish about how he felt. I'm not going to translate all of it but some issues perhaps are worth quoting as the critical voices here are rather minority.
He starts with how much of a crazed fan he is, how obsessed he was with the come back of Twin Peaks and so on... well that's nothing new for most of us here, so let's go on
Then he writes that he's not even disappointed... rather sad.
1) He loved the Twin Peaks uncanny, weird mood, with dark things creeping under the surface, not the permanent schizo-trippy darkness all around... he calls the film threatening, unpleasant and irritating.
2) He loved the Twin Peaks colours - warm and woody. Instead he gets a world drawn in cold and dirty colours, a world of metal and glass.
3) Lack of music - he says he sees that it is an intentional thing but is unable to understand the motives of such a decision (neither am I!!!).
4) Characters - more or less what I wrote, too. They used to be interesting from the first scenes, while here they either repell him or leave him indifferent.
5) Lack of magic - he loved the way the evil in old Twin Peaks was portrayed as primitive, originating from the woods. On the other hand here it seems to be more of technological evil. Like, we used to have owls, now we have cameras.
6) Locations - OK, that's pure sentiment, but he obviously doesn't appreciate the variety of locations. Snoqualmie all he way! (he travelled there 2 or 3 times and it's a long way from Poland...)
7) No humour whatsoever.
I basically agree with all above.