hollis (they/them) currently studying classics and archaeology.
i’m also thinking about how one of the only characters who does NOT turn the death of laura palmer into a personal symbol is albert - which is ironic in the sense that he’s trying to perform her autopsy, something we think of as requiring a perspective of objectivity, possibly dehumanizing the body in order to take it apart. however, he’s the only person who sees her as a young girl who was tragically murdered, who may be the precursor to more murders of other young women that he may be able to prevent if he does his job well.
the rest of the town wants the funeral to happen immediately. they want her buried, they want the family to get closure, they don’t want to have to think about it anymore. this is emblematic of the problem in the first place - it’s a town full of people who knew there was something wrong who looked the other way. that’s why it makes sense that the funeral is where bobby calls out how everyone’s complicit in her death (poetic cinema dot jpeg)
cooper is swept up in the symbol of laura palmer and the romanticized version of twin peaks from the very first episode, and that’s ultimately his fatal flaw. by preventing albert from performing the autopsy completely, he gives into the nostalgic impulse to memorialize laura instead of focusing on stopping her killer. and that’s like the second fuckin episode or something lmao
theyre literally at a funeral
The greatest overacting meets the greatest underacting.
An unstoppable force, an immovable object
not to be fake deep but twin peaks truly invented the whole “fighting god behind seven eleven” trend and we’re just now catching on…… like drinking seven gallons of coffee + astral projecting in a bar having a conversation with a giant is a real live plot in twin peaks
they’re supposed to be investigating a murder