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  1. Through the darkness of future's past, The magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds...
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      Lynch is sometimes accused of misogyny because of his film's texts contain excessive violence against women. But the subtext of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) is profoundly feminist.
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        The whole purpose of the film is Lynch explicitly telling the audience that behind the quirky, crime procedural that they loved was a young woman who suffered, who felt so much so deeply, and then was killed.
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          As Wallace says, Lynch was turning an object - a female corpse - into a subject - a young woman who felt, suffered, and died. Audiences hated it at the time because women should be objects: we don't want to hear about the inner life of a abused young sex worker.
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            Audiences wanted the continuation of Twin Peaks, the series: the further adventures of their male protagonist. Not to be confronted with the horror and darkness that women endured that was hidden behind everything they saw in the series.
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              For further feminist reading of Lynch, Martha Nochimson is good on this particularly The Passion of David Lynch.