spoilers for twin peaks : the return
A story must have an end. It must satisfy. The karmic cycles should reward our hero and punish our villain. So goeth the tale, so the status quo is restored. Dharma is restored.
Many of our stories, especially those that have been told for so long that they've become intertwined in religion, exist to exemplify the status quo, especially in the minds of the young and gullible.
Continuing that tradition, most of our mainstream television and film bask in this narrative karmic cycle. Shit might go south, but good wins, evil loses. The tortured lose. The sacrificial win. The status quo is upheld.
The problem with the status quo is that the status quo in our own reality is often unjust and unfair. And many of our films celebrate it.
In my opinion, such a thing is untruth. The world is unfair, the world does not reward the just, the world almost always rewards evil and the unscrupulous.
This is why,
when at the end of Twin Peaks : The Return,
David Lynch took us away from the victory, from the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department where the coffee's always on and a Truman seeks justice,
into the forest,
and Laura Palmer, the false virgin, the corrupted and defiled,
and further into darkness,
into reality,
and leaves us with nothing but a scream,
echoing throughout the dark,
like a subtle knife of truth,
I was wholly and utterly
satisfied.
