10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Premiere
9. The Most Intriguing Plot Strand Takes Place In New York
The early scenes set in an ominous hangar of a Manhattan residence are trademark Lynch as purveyor of pure dread.
The beauty of Lynch's style is his peerless ability to imbue the most mundane objects - ceiling fans, telephone wires, windswept trees - with lurching dread. The scenes in which a young man unwittingly observes a frightening, physically impossible box are lent lurching unease well before we see what is contained inside of it.
Lynch captures the room - owned and operated by an unseen billionaire - with his inimitable panache. Every last cable and camera hooked up to the transparent box is lingered on with an almost antagonising, slow pace. The young man's paramour acts as audience surrogate, her curiosity and persistence eventually allowing her inside of the room. It's ironic and fitting that the second most Peaksian scene takes place outside of the town. The premiere, throughout its two hour duration, discards convention even when indulging the most common of tropes.
Often in film, the monster rarely lives up to the menace. Not so here. The scariest box since Se7en has something(s) even more repulsive inside.