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Laura's paintings

posted 10 years ago by Dodgemaguire
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Just a theory that her paintings are doorways into both the Black/White Lodges

The Door Painting: (Black Lodge)

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I sort of made a reference to this in a previous post but what if the painting that the old lady and her grandson give laura is actually of the Black Lodge itself? Philip Jeffries said he was at "one of their meetings" but they didn't meet in the red curtained waiting room area, instead in a dark blackened room,plus it's not hard to see that after the camera pans away from the boy you can see the red curtained waiting room in what appears to be an arch opening.

The Angel Painting: (White Lodge)

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Laura's conversation with Donna.

Donna: Do you think that if you were falling in space... that you'd slow down after a while, or go faster and faster?

Laura: Faster and faster... until after a while you wouldn't feel anything... and then your body would just burst into fire. And the angel's wouldn't help you, 'cause they've all gone away...

Laura foreshadow's this when the angel seemingly does disappear from the painting and comes back to help her enter the white lodge

Once upon a time, there was a place of great goodness, called the White Lodge. Gentle fawns gamboled there amidst happy, laughing spirits. The sounds of innocence and joy filled the air. And when it rained, it rained sweet nectar that infused one's heart with a desire to live life in truth and beauty. Generally speaking, a ghastly place, reeking of virtue's sour smell. Engorged with the whispered prayers of kneeling mothers, mewling newborns, and fools, young and old, compelled to do good without reason ...

Sounds like a description of what the painting conveys doesn't it??

[–] nikkiweir 10 years ago

Last time I watched, I noticed that the wallpaper in the painting --an image in a frame-- resembled that from the labyrinthine corridors and rooms of One-Eyed Jack's. So maybe for her, within that frame, what others have called the Black Lodge is that feeling of corruption that Jacoby talked about in the session with Bobby, the start of the fall that, by the time the angel disappears, she feels has become unstoppable.

Also, right after getting that frame, she hurries home and finds out that she has been discovered. I wonder if she had any reason to think that her father might have found out about the Jack's episode? Anyway, I think maybe the Lodges are a way of letting characters have conversations about things that they experience with imagery that's particular to them, so indeed Laura's angel painting might be her version, or one of them, of the same place that Earle spoke of so derisively. (I think that Dale's Black Lodge, with the red curtains and the floor of several possible interesting meanings, is quite specific to him.)

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Mother: "Think of heaven as a great big hotel or a big office building.
Well, this is the lobby. This is where we have to wait."
Child: "For what?"
Mother: "For the elevator."
--The Rapture (1991)

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[–] jjdausey 9 years ago

In the dream, she is being pointed to another room (but it's her own house in disguise - that room is literally her parent's bedroom and inside it is the boy with the mask - like Leland is the mask for Bob...her unconscious mind is trying to tell her what's up with her Dad but she can't see it yet.

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[–] franzkabuki 9 years ago

"That room is literally her parent's bedroom and inside it is the boy with the mask".

It's just an empty room with no furniture whatsoever and the boy isn't wearing a mask, either.

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