Subject: Re: Comments from 2nd viewing
From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Date: 1992-09-13, 15:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <rhaller-130992102212@rhaller.cc.uoregon.edu> rhaller@oregon.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller) writes:
> >Another explanation is that the ring was good and it was the 'bad' Cooper
> >in her dream telling her not to take it.  It might be argued that it has to
> >be the good Coop because that is the one in the lodge, but don't forget
> >that Leland/BOB enter the lodge at the end of FWWM, so Coop/BOB could also.
> > That said, I'm not as happy with this theory as I would like to be.

Another idea.  Taking the ring seems to mean that you are marked for the
end of your life.  Maybe immediately, like for Chet Desmond, or maybe not,
like Teresa, but the end is inevitable.  You're giving your soul over to
the spirits of the Lodges (maybe MIKE himself), and your mortal term is at
an end.

The movie is about Laura Palmer facing up to her life, coming to terms with
it, and finally bringing it to a conclusion with her soul at peace.  However,
at this point she hasn't reached that state of inner peace, and so she is
not ready yet to face BOB and die with her mind intact.  Coop knows she's
not ready to die.  She doesn't want to die.  By telling her not to take
the ring, Cooper is telling her to LIVE, to face the love for James that
she's running away from, and not to give up hope.

It is only at the finale, when her role in this world has come to an end,
that it is time to take the ring.

Kind of existential, but it seems to hang together.

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