I remember this passage, and it's good to see it again. I was, however, wondering if AXX°N N. was reporting that Lynch had expressed something specifically about the ending of s3 after the fact.
That I would like to see, but I might be misunderstanding and any such statement might not even exist. (That being said, I do recall Lynch expressing something along the lines of "That's the end. You saw the end.")
Soolsma wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 4:10 am
It also suits LH and FWWM.
You'd just mentioned Mulholland Drive, and when I read "LH" I immediately thought "Laura Harring," before realizing that you meant Lost Highway.
Soolsma wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 4:10 am
I really wonder at what point in his career he came across this first.
I had earlier wondered when Lynch first came across the passage, and if he was familiar with it when he made FWWM, and most specifically the Phillip Jeffries, "We live inside a dream!" sequence, which obviously ties in with the Monica Bellucci dream (and more) in s3. Also, in FWWM, Laura awakens from a dream into yet another dream, then awakens from the second dream into what seems more like "reality," but which might be yet another layer or facet of dreaming (in this dream-weaving way of viewing things). On the other hand, perhaps what seems most like Laura's waking reality, being the one most like our own (with the caveat that each of our "dreams" of "reality" must differ somewhat from one another), is the final layer of dream, and what lies beyond it is transcendence and dissolution of everything but the soul, and thus of the "dream" itself. This might even arguably occur for Laura in different ways at the endings of FWWM and s3. Laura's removal of her face in s3 seems to indicate that she is in a state of awareness of her pure soul (indicated by the shining light), yet she's violently yanked out of there, apparently by Cooper's time-tripping escapades, and is found deep in illusion, or in a dream, as Carrie Page, in some permutation of Odessa, TX. That dream seems like it might have been destroyed by Laura's last-minute awakening (triggered by Cooper's question about the year) and the subsequent blackout.
And THAT ties right in with what kind of direction things might go in a hypothetical fourth season. It seems that they could go virtually anywhere.