It is awfully apparent that David Lynch was drinking “misogynist punch” when he wrote the television “masterpiece” known as Twin Peaks. Throughout the entire series there are more than enough instances of women being emotionally and physically abused for three seasons of network television. Warren Goldstein emphasizes in his article “Incest for the Millions: Saying No to David Lynch” that “[a] couple of Saturday nights ago as Leland Palmer [was] beating his niece to death, I turned off the television and said goodbye to “Twin Peaks” and David Lynch…[t]hat scene, remarkable for its prolonged, calculated, almost loving gruesomeness, was the final straw” (Goldstein 741). This is a sentiment highly noted especially among feminist critics. I, for one, believe that there is just one too many scenes of father-daughter incestuous implications, women being bonded and tortured, and women being abused with soap in sock mechanisms. Perhaps, Lynch did mean well. However, like Warren Goldstein I would have had to turn off the television.
Andy B.
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David Lynch trough Twin Peaks demands that its audience understand not just that sexual violence occurs, but that our culture tolerates a range of practices that serve to authorize violence against women. Twin peaks do not just portrayed familiar violence or “Misogyny”, it portrayed a reality that exist in our world. Davenport, Randi argues in his article “The Knowing Spectator of Twin Peaks: Culture, Feminism, and Family Violence” that “What made Twin Peaks hard to watch was its powerful suggestion that sexual violence is not pleasurable or natural but is common and is practiced by lots of seemingly average men”. Sexual abuse is a truth that can’t be hidden anymore in our society.
It is also truth that watch that kind of “drama” make some of us sicker of our society, but who do not watch women sexually objectified, kidnapped, threatened, beaten, stripped, killed whenever the television is turned on? I am pretty sure nobody can say “me”. This happen because nowadays almost everything is related with violence and the audience, or most of it, simply accepts it.
In my opinion this “drama” of a women being victim of incest and rape is nothing but part of the day by day story that the world and its people are telling since many years ago, David Lynch just reflect it in the big screen.
Irene N.
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