So instead of giving fans closure Lynch made...this *beep* thing?

FWWM was intended to be the first film of trilogy or tetrad, which, possibly, would have brought closure to the story. The film was such a financial failure, that know sequel ever saw the light of day.

Anyway, with the knew series, perhaps we will finally get that closure.

Originality needs a reboot.

Well, some fans did get closure from this amazing thing. But don't worry, most fans will *probably* get closure with the upcoming season 3 (even if it won't be the same thing to some).


Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!

I think you're looking for the wrong kind of closure. Yes, it will be exciting to find out what happened to Cooper when the series returns but the finale also works as a dark conclusion to the tale, Cooper's fall from grace. At any rate, the more important closure was psychological and emotional and that involved returning to the source of Twin Peaks, not venturing further into the future. Because a lot of stuff from the show had been only superficially resolved.

By the end of the series (and keep in mind Lynch was barely involved after the killer's reveal), Twin Peaks had strayed really far from its roots. Lynch, in both the finale and the feature film, was really eager to bring it all back home.

Hence in the finale he threw out much of the planned script and brought back a bunch of characters who had been forgotten: Ronette, Sarah Palmer, Leland Palmer, Maddy Ferguson, the room service waiter, the giant, the Little Man, and even Audrey's mom and Heidi the German waitress were not in the script but were brought back by Lynch (Windom Earle's role, meanwhile, was radically reduced). Most importantly, Lynch decided to make the Black Lodge into the Red Room. Believe it or not, the scripted Lodge was a whole new location, which would have basically left the Red Room of Cooper's dream as a narrative dead end instead of expanding on it (think how much of the lore that fans obsess over is due entirely to Lynch's improvisations in the last episode).

Likewise, in Fire Walk With Me, Lynch brought back the grandmother and grandson, the one-armed man, and the creamed corn, all of whom had been forgotten since Laura's mystery was resolved early in the second season. He explains why Teresa was killed (something brushed off with no explanation in ep. 16), and makes her relationships to Laura and Leland clear, and digs much deeper into the Leland/Bob relationship, leaving it ambiguous but going a lot further than the show's very perfunctory wrap-up of this plotline.

Above all, Lynch loved the character of Laura Palmer. The pilot episode was entirely centered around her death, as were most of the following episodes, and yet she was hardly ever mentioned in the second half of the series. Laura is perhaps the most quintessentially Lynchian character of all time: a combination of light and dark, beauty and ugliness, shrouded in mystery, pain, and danger. So it's no surprise he wanted to finally give her life and explore her trauma and death through her own eyes. It's one thing to hear about her suffering from friends, doctors, and detectives - safely distanced from actually experiencing it ourselves. It's something else entirely to live in Laura's world for two hours and that's what this film accomplished. It's also a hugely important gateway into the second half of Lynch's career, with its dual identities, split narrative, female protagonist, subjective/dreamlike perspective, and mixture of the everyday with fantastical, physics-bending phenomena. No Fire Walk With Me, no Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, or Inland Empire. And I think these are Lynch's most interesting works.

I'm thrilled we'll get to see more Twin Peaks, but I was also satisfied with the end of this movie: the two most important characters finally united, having passed through the darkness, now bathed in light because they survived their suffering (spiritually if not physically). We could wait 25 years to find out what happened to Cooper, but due to Sheryl Lee's age and Lynch's burning desire to tell Laura's story, Fire Walk With Me had to be made exactly when it was. And I'm so glad he chose to go in this direction rather than tidily wrap up the TV show's storylines.

Who the hell wants closure? Works of the nature of Twin Peaks don't need to be encapsulated inside pop psychological parameters such as closure, a trite and feckless concept of the latter 20th century, if ever one was. Nothing sounds more nullifying to Twin Peaks than closure. The perpetual conversation around depths of meaning and interpretation of events and characters is where this story lives. A dozen different people viewing Twin Peaks will relate to what they saw in a dozen different ways. The artist's material finds a living medium in the mind of the viewer.

Why do some artists' work endure age after age. Van Gogh, Messiaen, Sister Teresa of Avila, Yeats, Copeland, Poe, Vaughan Williams, Dostoevsky, Hopper, Rodin? It's not because of closure. Closure is for Jerry Bruckheimer fans.

...for want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died.


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Timothy Leary's dead

As already mentioned, FWWM does provide emotional closure. But even so it isn't like the show ended in some particularly inappropriate place - after all, the central storyline involving Cooper and Earle was followed to its conclusion while all manner of other climactic cataclysms occurred allover the town (and then there were of course slight touches mirroring The Pilot and thereby suggesting a closure of the narrative loop); the final episode in its universally perverse grimness certainly FELT like something had come to its end.



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Go back and watch it again. Turn out the lights. Get heaps of popcorn and goodies. Get really really smashed then hit play. If you're prepared to concentrate you'll also need Kleenex. Lots of Kleenex.
FWWM is the best part of Twin Peaks. It's just really sad and they cut out the jokes. We've had all the jokes in the series. It's time for some Garmonbozia.

Well it didn't work out, but that might happen when you're so bold, you try to plan three movies ahead. But hey, you might get that closure now that the new tv series is coming.

I loved the film. I saw it twice when it was released. It wasn't what I was expected but it took me on a ride. My only problem was the death of Laura when "Waldo" wasn't seen attack Laura which was established in the original series.