His work is freaky and frightening, yet today the Twin Peaks director cuts an almost cosy figure. As he turns 77 – a number of significance – we explore how real life caught up with his dark visions
, it is ultimately ambiguous whether bushy-tailed ingenue Betty Elms is the dream-creation of homicidal failure Diane, if this dream is more real than the reality, or if it even matters which is correct. But this magnificent suite of role-playing contains Hollywood in all its aspirations and sordidness, and Diane’s infatuation and bitterness with the dream factory are our own.
Online especially, we respond to this fragmentation with ever-more polarised positions, ones that seek to permanently separate virtue from vice. But Lynch’s great moral conviction has been to show us to what extent good and evil are inextricably wound around each other and coexist in the same person. Excessive zeal, like stainless Agent Cooper, is replaced by his scowling, mullet-haired doppelganger.
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