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Rating:  - Write it in your diary
This film is not for everybody! But if you are a fan of the series Twin Peaks, it will answer your questions about whatever really happened to Laura Palmer. It is not like the TV series - hold no expectations of that. It is bold, strong, in your face and never held back - this is Lynch. All the loose ends are tied up but it is not a film everyone will appreciate. However it is still a must for fans of the series. Write it in your diary....
Rating:  - unanswered questions
this is a lynch film that explains the secret life of laura palmer if not a twin peaks fan it may be confusing still well done lynch always in the end of his films makes you wonder what?
Rating: - Heart-Rending, Mystical
CONTAINS SPOILERS!
One of the most brilliant, saddest, most disturbing, and most beautiful movies ever made. This is the story of Laura Palmer and how her life spun out of control before her death. Sherryl Lee should have gotten an Oscar for her performance. She captures the erratic mood changes of the abused and drug-addicted Laura perfectly.
The first part of the movie describes the investigation of the murder of Teresa Banks. Part of the investigation involves a ring which, worn by the next victim, signifies the next person who is to die. There is a scene where one of the FBI agents (David Bowie) has somehow been captured or kept by the people from another place (the demons), and he (the agent) returns to the FBI headquarters. Then the movie cuts to Twin Peaks and the last few days of Laura Palmer's life. Essentially, this prequel explains the events directly relating to Laura Palmer's death in the Twin Peaks television series. She is being abused by her father, Leland/Mad Bob. In order to cope with her life, she has become addicted to cocaine. In order to pay for the cocaine, she becomes a prostitute and to secure the drug she feigns a love relationship with Bobby who is part of a chain of drug dealing in Twin Peaks. Gradually there is nowhere else for her to go, she needs more and more cocaine to feed her addiction. Her life spirals out of control and she is killed by Leland/Bob, who is jealous of her sexual relationships with other men.
I haven't read all the other reviews here, but I just had to add my opinion as I feel this is one of the deepest films I have seen. Make no mistake, this is a trip into both a dream and a nightmare. Unlike some of Lynch's offerings, this movie actually does more or less make sense (as did the Twin Peaks TV series). The problem occurs for some viewers because you have to think deeply to understand it and you have to understand metaphor and symbolism. The people from the other place are demons. You can regard them as real or you can regard them as metaphors - metaphors for what comes over a man when he has a compulsion to abuse his own daughter, metaphors for what comes over someone when she is addicted to hard drugs. The demons can also be seen as the drugs themselves. They feed off human pain (garbanzo beans). All of us has an animal behind the mask. The white mask has a sharp nose like an intravenous drug needle. We're "civilized monkeys". Interpreted in this way, suddenly everything makes even more sense.
And there's the wind in the trees.
Rating: - The One That Got Away
Twin Peaks is the series that got away -- the first year of our relationship had such fire, which turned into malaise in our second year when we suddenly broke up and never saw each other again until years later... When reunited for several hours one evening, Twin Peaks looked better than ever in 35mm, it's sound design and mystery made my heart burn for our lost passion, yet before we could reach any closure, it walked out on me for the final time. (8/10)
Rating: - It's very good but ...
It's terrific but is more like Blue Velvet than the Twin Peaks tv series.
I give it four rather than five stars because it isn't what a fan of the series really wanted..which was more of the best of the tv series.
However it's terrific if you watch it as a David Lynch movie set in
Twin Peaks.
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