 Mystery: April 01, 2020 Issue [#10103] |
This week: When a Small-Town Mystery Get Lynched Edited by: ~Minja~  
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"I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.! ~Special Agent Dale Cooper
"Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee." ~Special Agent Dale Cooper
"For instance, there is no light without darkness—and this troubles many of us—but without it, how else would we tell one from the other? We spend half of every day in darkness; surely we should make our peace with this." ~Mark Frost
"The whole universe is one bright pearl, and there is no need to understand it." ~Scott Frost, The Autobiography of F.B.I Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes |
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win Peaks is weird but it's way more approachable than you might think so. For those of you who have never seen it, Twin Peaks was a murder mystery primetime soap from the minds of Mark Frost and David Lynch that aired on ABC for two seasons, from 1990 to 1991, and made a comeback 25 years after for the final season in 2017. The body of a young girl Laura Palmer—a homecoming queen— was found on the beach, wrapped up in a plastic bag, and FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper was sent to investigate only to get dragged into the peculiar world that is Twin Peaks. Sounds like your ordinary murder mystery? Well... not really. I did mention the word 'peculiar', didn't I?
The storytelling by Mark Frost
Just like in any other small-town mysteries, Twin Peaks doesn't lack the enigma revolving around the murder. When the dead body of a beautiful, young girl Laura Palmer was found on the shore we immediately found out how important and beloved she was by the citizens. As the story progressed, we realized that Dale Cooper was going to have a hard time figuring it all out. And not just him but the entire fandom. In 1990, you couldn't see a TV series goes on for so long without solving the murder mystery or at least give you a definite clue. The further the story went, the more and more layers of it peeled off. As a matter of fact, Lynch and Frost never hoped to reveal the killer but they were pressed by the network and the viewers finally got it in the series finale (or at least what we thought was a series finale). Twin Peaks returned 26 years after just like Laura Palmer promised to Dale Cooper while sitting in an infamous Red Room.
The peculiarity by David Lynch
While co-creator Mark Frost worked full-time to ensure the viewers get only the finest murder mystery, David Lynch filled the gaps with oddities, giving Twin Peaks a whole new dimension which, in the end, ensured uniqueness and popularity. Everyone who knows David Lynch will agree that his work is divisive and the man himself has tendencies toward abstract and surrealistic art. In one interview, he said: "I only wanted to be a painter and I got into film because I wanted to make paintings move, and one thing led to another..."
But, the thing he once said about his childhood, its view, surely had the most influence on Twin Peaks.
My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it's supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow, and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. Because I grew up in a perfect world, other things were a contrast. ~David Lynch
If you look at Twin Peaks on the surface, you'll see a beautiful world where people are welcoming and kind, especially toward strangers. This is why Special Agent Dale Cooper easily got dragged into it. All he needed was a cherry pie and, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee. But, just like in Lynch's childhood, if you scratched that surface, you'd find the rotten and dying world as a contrast. From here, the layers of the mystery starts peeling off endlessly. Eventually, we find out that a beautiful and beloved homecoming queen led a double life which, still, wasn't the exact reason why she was murdered. Scratching harder now we come to the revelation of the mystery when we are introduced to BOB who is probably the scariest villain out there. BOB is an evil entity from another world who possess human beings and make them commit acts of rape and murder. Scratching harder again, Twin Peaks engulfs you into the peculiarity of David Lynch's mind. Opposite of the evil entity BOB, we have a good entity, Mike. Opposite of the Black Lodge that was presented as a place of pure evil through which all souls passed on the way to perfection, we have the White Lodge that was presented as a place of great goodness and the home of the spirits who ruled over man and nature in Twin Peaks. Then you have a lady who is carrying a piece of the log around the town for no reason at all and is known as the Log Lady, infamous Red Room, the Giant who likes to tell riddles, the owls who are not what they seem to be, the dwarf dancing and speaking backward, Judy, Project Blue Book and countless of other odd mysteries.
The point is, you will come in for the murder mystery but what you will find out is that Twin Peaks is so much more, something that could only be achieved by the brilliant and artistic mind of David Lynch.
The surface and the core of the mystery
Is the story of Twin Peaks weird and overwhelming for an ordinary viewers? Yes, it definitely is. Then why is this murder mystery so influential and widely popular even today? The one thing that fascinates the viewers is that they can come back to it any time over the years and STILL find the layers of the story waiting for them to be peeled off. The mystery of Twin Peaks was never meant to be solved in the first place. Its ambiguity is what makes it popular and loved. You can find out who killed Laura Palmer but that's just one layer of the story. The surface.
Another thing that is great is what Lynch and Frost mentioned in some of their interviews: there is no light without darkness, and if you look closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. Both of them gave us this beautiful world of Twin Peaks as some kind of remembrance of the past times when people were simple and kind. We were dragged in not because of the cherry pie or, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee but because of the dreams of goodness in people and some past times that are long gone or, perhaps, never existed at all. The rottenness came like a slap in the face. Twin Peaks is the mother of all small-town mysteries for this reason. However, the myths of beautiful homecoming queens and the American life (which is quite similar to Lynch's childhood) that slowly crumbles before your eyes, the industrial town that represents both—the good and the bad, dreams and reality of teenage life is the actual core of the mystery here and the reason why Twin Peaks cries for understanding not resolving. This is why it'll be remembered as one of the TV's most fascinating mysteries. Those of you who haven't seen it, I strongly recommend doing so. And those of you who have seen it, well, perhaps now is the right time to pay a visit to this old friend  .
Until next time, don't forget to give yourself a present today 
~Minja~
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Excerpt: My curiosity got the best of me and I walked the few paces into the mountain trail to get a closer look at the shoe. It was still tied, propped up on a root on the trail, just waiting to be found. I was going to pick it up and examine it when suddenly I started to think about how ridiculous this all was and figured I should just be on my way. In a town where nothing happens, I suppose it makes sense that I’d be over-interested in an abandoned shoe. But as I turned to leave something else caught my eye.
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Excerpt: For each round, I will disguise a quote—which could have been sung, spoken, or scrawled—and your task is to be one of the first five people to decipher it.
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