Realitatea ficțiunii și conștiința mitului în Twin Peaks de David Lynch

Our study aims to grasp the creative strategies involved in David Lynchʼs TV series Twin Peaks, namely the way in which reality and fiction are mingled in the same artistic frame. We briefly discuss basic concepts such as reality, fiction, and consciousness by stating their specificity and extrapolating mutual or distinctive features that the three concepts expose as core signifiers for an absurd, dreamy, and nightmarish world. As a matter of fact, Lynch partially explains his work as a permanent pursuit for creativity and emerging consciousness, by reaching deeper levels of reality and expressing their mesmerizing and ambiguous aesthetic beauty. The relationship between reality and fiction is blatantly turned into a fascinating mind game, as the filmmaker makes use of all the compelling ingredients that our postmodern society has to give in order to generate striking cinematic masterpieces: postindustrial landscapes, polluted areas, foggy railways, dark nights, depression, domestic violence, mob crime, floating glamour, mass consumption, economic crises, illnesses, space-time distortions, secret societies, drug addiction, hallucinatory/altered states of mind, strange peoples, incessive obsessions, ontological simultaneity, parallel worlds, bad spirits, and, last but not least, a sense of desolation that is utterly entailed by our postmodern condition. All these ingredients shape Lynchian worlds in unique manner of expression, tearing apart any shred of tranquility and keeping track the sings of evil in its most horrifying forms.