Because lamps (colours, position) were used in 'Mulholland Drive' to indicate where in the narrative we are, when I rewatched Twin Peaks The Return episodes 1 & 2, I tried to keep note of what's happening with lights.
Was anyone else struck by how often artificial lights are used in daylight?
For example, the scene in Ben Horne's office: there are four lanterns/lights in use, even though it's broad daylight. Outside Jacoby's trailer, there's a light switched on - again, in daytime.
It didn't seem strange, of course, when lanterns/lights featured during night scenes. At Beluah's shack there are four lanterns switched on (with two not in use) - which seemed natural until I realised there was exactly the same number in use/not in use back in Ben's office.
Perhaps this is all coincidental. Of course there lights are used indoors in daytime. But it did look odd particuarly in Ben's office.
That's probably a good thing to look for. The farther in you get the more important the presence of certain lights are going to be. I think it's fair to say that in certain scenes the "light" is the main character of the frame. I'm rewatching the first episode and that kind of struck me in the throwback scene of the school hallway from season 1. When Bill Hastings is being taken to his jail cell one of the scenes lets the characters walk way by while focusing on the light in the hallway.
Since I just watched the pilot too, I think an even more important light in the first episode was the flashlight that officer was using to check the trunk. It starts flickering while they're looking for clues and he says "It's broke," which is a direct parallel to the season 1 pilot scene when Cooper is going to examine Laura Palmer's body for the first time in the morgue and the overhead lamp keeps flickering. The doctor present for that scene also remarks that the lamp was "broken."
Seems like something else could have been present for both scenes. Hmm?
There are two floor lamps in the red "waiting room"/ Lodge room that are NOT turned on. Same as in the end of season 2.
I think there will be a neat little hypothesis for why certain lights are coincidental in nature, by the end of the show, but I don't think we'll get any definitive closure. Perhaps the lights are indicative of connections between characters? Indicative of "dark" presences, which causes people to turn on their lights indoors, even when it is light outside? Just rambling now, will end.
I'm pretty much counting on lots of clues with no definitive answers and little closure. If Lynch gets to make his perfect Twin Peaks it will be a vehicle for MYSTERY.
I was wondering if the chocolate bunnies scene wasn't a little jab at fans taking a small detail and chasing it down the rabbit hole, so to speak. 🙂 All in good fun I'm sure.
@Nikolaj - What if that was asking about electric lights though?? Is that what that was?
I have no clue. But there could be something in it that relates to electricity/artificial light and/or light meaning soul.
Maybe I'm just being contrary but I tend to have lights on most of the time, particularly when I'm drawing and painting. I also like a little ambient light around the place, so that my computer screen - a huge 4k thing - isn't the main source of light in the area.
It's probably fair that not all of the lights are meaningful. However there was that one little table lamp in the "mauve" room that turned on when it was time for Cooper to "travel," so SOME of them are going to mean something.
This is how people end up conspiracy theorists. Isn't it.
It's probably fair that not all of the lights are meaningful. However there was that one little table lamp in the "mauve" room that turned on when it was time for Cooper to "travel," so SOME of them are going to mean something.
This is how people end up conspiracy theorists. Isn't it.
Oh yes, indeed it is. And "they" really are out to get us. 😀
It's probably fair that not all of the lights are meaningful. However there was that one little table lamp in the "mauve" room that turned on when it was time for Cooper to "travel," so SOME of them are going to mean something.
This is how people end up conspiracy theorists. Isn't it.
Oh yes, indeed it is. And "they" really are out to get us. 😀
I know I've said it before, but these "lights" are still bugging me.......
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