Subject: TP - time and plots
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1990-12-04, 09:25
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

Twin Peaks has been compared to a movie devoted to
character development and atmosphere. One poster
went so far as to say that a movie can be good *without* a plot.
I offer Jacob's Ladder as an example of that kind of movie.
How Jacob feels, how his character develops, that is all that matters,
not whether the plot holds together or the events in the plot actually
happened.
 
I think that Lynch leans towards being that kind of film maker.
Despite the care that has obviously gone into realism I think that
Lynch is most interested in the spiritual realities.  Certainly he
is not a  respector of linear time. He seems to combine eras that are
spiritually similar, have a similar mood. That is why I doubt that it
matters if Leland was old enought to know big band tunes or if
Bob bought his jean jacket when they were in style. I think it is
the feelings associated with music and costume that appeal to Lynch.
 
ann hodgins