"Deciphering" The Poem Fire Walk With Me And Its Mysterious Nature - Twin Peaks (Fire Walk With Me)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- I started watching Twin Peaks, and first discovered David Lynch in 2016, when I was 15 years old. Who'd say that these 4 years of new discoveries would allow me to go beyond the "boundaries" of thought and break the wall of ignorance. Enjoy this video where I explain to you my interpretation of the poem "Fire Walk With Me"! For more videos, subscribe and hit that like button! Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me 1992. Twin Peaks Season 3
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I've finally come to a conclusion that David might have intended not to use the comma, indeed, because of the plurality idea of fire, once there's more than one "fire" depending on the intentions: bad fire and good fire ("they", not "it")! Here's an example where the Log Lady refers to one kind of "fire": "Sometimes my anger at the fire is evident. Sometimes it is not anger, really - it may appear as such, but could it be a clue? The fire I speak of is not a kind fire." Therefore, the idea of plurality of the "fire" seems to be pretty valid.
When Hawk talks about the native american map, in contains cornstalks which are broken in one of the corners. He says that once they are broken and burned, they produce "black fire". This seems to tie in with the plurality of fire like you mention.
Corn is also a symbollic reference to the treatment of native americans, especially the blood corn laws. Also, when the nuclear test is dropped, this is an example of another bad fire - it causes Judy to regurgitate Bob.
I think Mark Frost's additions to the story are quite related to human beings bringing evil into the world, he's quite a politically orientated guy and twin peaks books are more orientated to that line of thinking.
The idea of "intercourse between the two worlds" is also expanded on by Mark Frost with Jack Parsons and his occult sex magick rituals (he actually performs a sex magic ritual around the test site of the bomb before its dropped interestingly). Diane and Cooper's mechanical sex in part 18 of the return also seems related to that but I have no idea how.
Ultimately twin peaks is a melding between Lynch and Frost, so it's interesting to see twin peaks as a deep dive into the nature of reality and balance, represented through abstract cinema.
thank you that was a fun & fascinating delve into the poem :)
Thank you for a well argumentet analysis of Twin Peaks, very hard to come around on UA-cam. However, I struggle to understand your interpretation of the "Magician" being "Us" (the viewer). What are your evidences for that conclusion? The only reference to a magician in Twin Peaks is the grand son of mrs. Tremond - we have the scene where he shows his magic trick by moving the creamed corn, where we are told that he is studing magic. The boy is dressed up resembling David Lynch himself with both his hair and his attire. With this I think it is fair to conclude, that "The Magician" is a reference to David Lynch himself or at least the Gordon Cole figure in the series. If "the Magician" should represent "us/the viewer", Gordon Cole should represent us/the viewer, which I also do not find any evidence for.
But I would like to hear your thoughts about that.
Thank you again for a good work.
Genius
Are you familiar with the works of Carlos Castaneda and/or Itzhak Bentov? They are very similar to Lynch's. Thanks for all the great posts!
His work i
His work always succeeds when He uses obscure stuff about Human nature. However he has only worked with those concepts as a vehicle , maybe to make his movies. Whether he has a belief in any of it is arguable; He may just by using mumbojumbo to make some other statement! Even so, I love His stuff! :-)
maybe it means spark my mind / imagination as I spark yours
or literally walk on fire with me as some Indians customs do which Lynch borrows from
Honestly, while the way you source what Lynch actually said is pretty convincing, it's also a let down that the poem is based on such a hokey pseudo-platonic philosophical idea and culty TM stuff about mantras and vedas. I prefer to think of Twin Peaks as a set of imagery, sounds and largely nonsensical story with no deeper meaning but with a strong dream-like effect on the viewer. I like the show but I don't think it benefits from having meaning, even if you can find it if you look for it.