This first episode of the show is really powerful: we don't know nothing about the town and the citizens yet, we just have arrived to that hidden corner of the World...but after all the sadness, after the waterfall of tears we can't avoid feel the deep pain that has broken the heart of Twin Peaks. Something unknown in our subconscious is telling us...in some day, in some place...Laura has been part of our life too...
Whata really creepy to me is the random girl runnjng away screaming and crying, as if she saw the body. She didn't obviously, but thats how shes reacting
One of the scenes I remember the most. First, the background music is smooth, jazzy. Probably a description how cool the students think they are. Then when they find out, it's just a howling , chilling echo.
I think Lynch is just burying us in this drawn out and very effective moment where Donna, James, and Audrey are realizing something happened to Laura. Then the scene flashes away to the principal speaking, and when it comes back to the classroom other students have gathered around Donna to console her. So there eventually is commotion but Lynch is very good at expanding these kinds of revelatory moments where it stays focused for an uncomfortably long time. Prior to this (if memory serves, it is prior), he does something similar with Laura’s mother at home calling Laura’s father at work, desperate about not being able to locate their daughter. Leland’s reaction to the police entering where he is working while on the phone is enough for Sarah on the other end of the phone to put it together that something happened to Laura.
@@AmicusAdastraThat's the whole thing about twin peaks, you have to watch it to understand, it's like the whole show is a dream where things are always slightly off until they are completely off...
What’s up with the screaming idiot 39 seconds in? Did she already know about Laura or was she just causing a disturbance of the peace? It’s been almost a decade since I first watched this show and I still haven’t figured that out.
It's a purposeful coincidence, my friend. It's included to build the feeling that something's wrong; your friend hasn't shown up to school, there's a sheriff talking to your teacher, and somebody is screaming at the revelation of something. Those are the dots being connected that lead James and Donna to start breaking down, because all of those coincidences lining up means they can *feel* something happened to Laura before they've even been told.
"Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (also known as Music from Twin Peaks) is a soundtrack album by American composer Angelo Badalamenti. It was released on September 11, 1990, by Warner Bros. Records and is the official soundtrack to the television series Twin Peaks (1990-1991). Though mostly instrumental, three tracks feature vocals by Julee Cruise." 11 tracks number 11 is falling.
