Subject: Re: Visitors to Teresa's Trailer
From: larryy@gallant.apple.com (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1992-09-22, 23:05
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
In article <1992Sep19.182524.20360@exu.ericsson.se> exurobv@exu.ericsson.se writes:
> >In article J8v@news.cso.uiuc.edu, ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dres) writes:
>> >>
>> >> Maybe it's just me, but has anyone noticed yet how odd it is that the
>> >> Trailer Park guy says that many people have been visiting Teresa's place?
>> >> I mean, Teresa had no family, no friends, and so not many people would care
>> >> just to see where she used to live. And I'm sure the cops didn't spend too
>> >> much time looking for clues in there, if they went in there at all.
>> >> So what's the deal? Who are the visitors?
>> >> see the trailer. But why did she come in? What was the whole point of that
>> >> sequence?
> >
> >I think that is an interesting point about the visitors. I also noticed that in
> >the movie, but had just assumed that it had been traffic from the Deer Meadow
> >cops (although with the Deputy living in the trailer park, you would think
> >that they wouldn't have had to mess with the park manager much).
Two tidbits... I'd have to see the film again to be certain (only 3 times -
hey, what a memory, eh?), but didn't Harry Dean Stanton's character (the
trailer park manager) mention visitors to Teresa's trailer while she was
alive? (As opposed to strictly after and in reaction to her death.) If so,
well... she was turning tricks, and though we know she took some of them
to motels, frequent short visits is one of the tell-tale signs of
both prostitution and drug-dealing. If they were only talking about the
period of time after her death, then ignore this comment!
However, even if they were only referring to visits that occurred after
her death, Stanton's character was *wonderfully* committed to doing
nothing. From his "not before 9am" message scrawled on the door, to
the many, many notes tacked to that same door (that you just *know*
haven't been dealt with), to the woman who accosts him wanting her
hot water fixed, to Stanton's line about "just more stuff I gotta do"...
this is one guy who *really* doesn't want to deal with life
maintenance chores, or reality in general! One of my favorite little
moments in the film is when he tells Chester and Sam that he hasn't
"touched a god damn thing!" in Teresa's trailer... *boy* do I believe
him!! Anyway, to such a person, I suspect that even *one* visitor -
one more thing he's gotta do - would make him remember and comment
on the traffic to her trailer.
-- -larryy@apple.com "Shi Nou Kou Sho Inu Neko Programmer" - Takada Naoki
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