10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 14

9. David Lynch Dreams Monica Bellucci Dreams

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Those irritated by a perceived tendency on Lynch's part to test the patience of viewers throughout The Return can take solace in his anti-holier than thou approach to his own character, Gordon Cole.

"And last night, I had another Monica Bellucci Dream!" he announced to Albert and Tammie. The concept of a "Monica Bellucci dream" - a recurring "Monica Bellucci Dream"! - is absolutely hilarious. The concept of Cole - Lynch, let's face it - uncovering the absurd mystery of the strange forces of human existence through the conduit of an internationally famous woman of ridiculous beauty - skewers with a knowing wink the pervert at Lynch's core. But there's more to that scene than a reassuring meta acknowledgement. The mere mention of a real-world figure in Twin Peaks is indefinably jarring, and her words - "We're like the dreamer who dreams, and then lives inside the dream - but who is the dreamer?" - perhaps harken an alternative, manifested reality.

Those words were received with a deadpan both withering and warm from Albert and Tammie - the latter of whom has surely banished the naysayers by this point - before repurposed black and white footage from Fire Walk With Me further suggested, with harrowing electricity-driven sound design, that Jeffries' suspicion of Cooper ("Who do you think that is there?) was a premonition of his eventual fate.

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