The murder of Laura Palmer,
the seventeen year old hometown beauty queen, is the starting point of the
31-chapters mystery pl
ot
of the television series Twin-Peaks. Dale Cooper, an F.B.I agent from Washington,
comes to Twin Peaks, to solve the mystery. Agent Cooper's ways of investigating
are nothing like any other investigation you've seen on films before. Agent
Cooper believes that the answer (the identity of the killer) is already inside
his mind, and his job is to dig it from the depth of it. In one of the dreams
agent Cooper is dreaming, he sees Laura Palmer come to him and whispers the
answer in his ear. When he wakes up he is sure that he knows who the killer
is, but just can't remember his name. Throughout the amazing adventures he
is going through during the months he spends in Twin Peaks, he is trying to
realize the name he can't remember. One of the main tools he uses to solve
this mystery, is the visions and dreams he is constantly having. He is relying
on clues and facts that his dream tells him, as if they are relevant to the
investigation much more then real life's facts. His whole investigation is
based on those clues, which finally help him to expose the identity of the
killer. Agent Cooper's dreams are designed in a naturalistic way. The images
are clear, and real people are seen just like they look in real life. The
context of the dreams is a collage of cut- ups, and it's very hard to describe
the plot of the dream, since it's not being presented in a linear way. The
dialog often sounds like a chain of associations or stream of consciousness.
In that sense, the dreams has a certain similarity to the way that dreams
mostly look like (or should I say- to the way most people describe what their
dreams look like). That Agent Cooper believe that the fantasies, visions and
dreams he's having are clear clues, is part of the main theme of the series.
The series is trying to show, that there is an evil spirit that controls the
human race, and can randomly enter each and every one of us. This spirit,
known as "Killer Bob" enters many of the characters, and causes them to do
evil things. Since this spirit, as it presented by Killer Bob, is an aspect
of human nature, and common to all of the human race, the thoughts and ideas
people are having is also common to all the people, wherever they are. This
is why agent Cooper can realize the identity of the killer from his dreams
and subconscious clues. The answer is something that is common to all of us,
and only an inner search can get us to find it. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl
Gustav Jung has expressed the idea of "collective unconscious". David Lynch
is using a modern version of this idea, to research the depth of the mind
and the origin of human evil.
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