History Film / TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe

* NoodleIncident: When we first meet him, Chet Desmond is arresting a bus driver and a pair of hookers next to an elementary school bus full of crying children parked on the side of a highway in Fargo, North Dakota. Why all this is happening is never made clear, [[RuleOfFunny and it probably never should be.]]

* FreudWasRight: Inverted in-universe, with a plot that deliberately contradicts some of Freud's theories. Just as Freud believed that events in dreams always stood for something else, he believed believed that women who claimed to [[spoiler: have been raped by their fathers]] were mentally processing some other trauma into this story and that it never really happened. In this film, the [[spoiler: incestuous rape]] is the AwfulTruth lurking underneath the more fantastical setup.

'''''Fire Walk With Me''''' is the 1992 film prequel to ''Series/TwinPeaks'', and follows the events leading up to the death of Laura Palmer in the pilot episode. It is directed by the co-creator of the series, Creator/DavidLynch.

!!''Fire Walk With Me'' provides examples of:

* SelfDeprecation: The scene with Lil the dancer and her bizarrely convoluted coded messages has been read as DavidLynch gently mocking his own incomprehensibility.

* WhatYearIsThis: Agent Philip Jeffries (Creator/DavidBowie) demands to know this. It's implied that he's somehow UnstuckInTime.

''Fire Walk With Me'' is the 1992 film prequel to ''Series/TwinPeaks'', and follows the events leading up to the death of Laura Palmer in the pilot episode. It is directed by the co-creator of the series, Creator/DavidLynch.

* BrickJoke: Unlike [[RememberTheNewGuy Chet]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Desmond]], Agent Sam Stanley actually gets a brief mention in [[Series/TwinPeaks the show]], during the pilot. Agent Cooper's notes to [[TheGhost Diane]] that they shouldn't let Sam work the Palmer case, and that [[OnlySaneMan Albert Rosenfield]] has it [[ComedicUnderstatement "more on the ball."]]

''Fire Walk With Me'' is the 1992 film prequel to ''Series/TwinPeaks'', and follows the events leading up to the death of Laura Palmer in the pilot episode.

* MagicRealism
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone

!! Fire Walk With Me provides examples of:

* AbusiveParents

The film was not received well at the Cannes Film Festival, and garnered largely negative reviews in America. Like the series, though, it has received a better reception in recent years.

** Laura's mother Sarah Palmer clearly knows something's going on(which makes her scream of "What's happening in this house?" at the start of the series even HarsherInHindsight]]) but refuses to let herself put it together.

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->''And the angels wouldn't help you....because they've all gone away''

This is essentially a 1992 film prequel to the TwinPeaks TV series, which was keenly anticipated due to the popularity of the series. It was not received well at the Cannes Film Festival, and garnered largely negative reviews in America. Further, many of the fans of the television series were not keen, due to the fact that several characters from the TV series did not make an appearance, and the lead character (Dale Cooper) only had a few scenes.

It did receive some positive reviews, however, and some fans do appreciate it.

The plot deals with the last days of Laura Palmer, and the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks.

* AwfulTruth: Causes Laura to have a HeroicBSOD
* BitterSweetEnding[=/=]GainaxEnding:[[spoiler: In the last scene of the movie, Laura appears reunited with Agent Cooper and her guardian angel in the Black Lodge.]]
* BondageIsBad: It's certainly presented in as unsavoury a way as possible.
* BreakTheCutie: The process is well underway by the beginning of the film

* DarkerAndEdgier: Although it occupies the same disturbing universe as the TwinPeaks television series, the film is noticeably more bleak. The focus is firmly on Laura, not the kooky surrounding cast of the TV show, and the eccentric humour of the series is absent.
* DaylightHorror: TwinPeaks always liked to mix the mundane with the terrifying, and the film is no exception.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone?
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore

* NotScreenedForCritics
* TheOtherDarrin: Most notably Moira Kelly as Donna, since Lara Flynn Boyle bowed out.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Laura is reunited with her guardian angel in the Black Lodge.]] It's actually not that 'different' and is instantly recognizable as a straightforward angel.
* PeekABooCorpse: During Laura's nightmare, the bloodied body of [[spoiler: Annie Blackburn]] shows up in her bed. And then starts talking.

* RightThroughHisPants: BOB in the rape scene. [[spoiler: Justified since it's actually Leland.]]
* SecretDiary: Played with. [[spoiler: Laura find that pages have been torn from her diary, but does not know who did it. When she finds out it was Leland, her father, the awful truth starts slowly to sink in.]]

* SplitPersonality: Played with. [[spoiler: There's Laura the homecoming queen who helped organise meals on wheels, and then there's the Laura who prostitutes herself and is a coke addict. On the same note, the whole BOB/Leland split personality/evil spirit issue]]

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Played with. [[spoiler: Laura would rather die than let herself be a conduit for BOB.]]

* WhatYearIsThis: Agent Philip Jeffries (DavidBowie, of all people) demands to know this. It's implied that he's somehow UnstuckInTime.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A particularly tear jerking take on this trope. [[spoiler: When the angel appears to Laura when she is despondent in the Black Lodge, it is letting her know that she is worth saving and it never abandoned her.]]

* NotScreenedForCritics: Due to the negative reception at Cannes and negative early word-of-mouth.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath

* TheWatson: Agent Sam Stanley is this to Chet Desmond. Given that Stanley is played by a young Keifer Sutherland, it's pretty [[TwentyFour hilariously ironic]] to see him play a special agent as such a bumbling NaiveNewcomer.

* JurisdictionalFriction: Between FBI agent Chet Desmond and the Deer Meadows sheriff's office.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Laura is reunited with her guardian angel in the Black Lodge. It's actually not that 'different' and is instantly recognizable as a straightforward angel.]]

* SecretDiary: Played with. [[spoiler: Laura find that pages have been torn from her diary, but does not know who did it. When she finds out it was Leland, her father, the awful truth starts slowly to sink in]]

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Laura is reunited with her guardian angel in the Black Lodge.]]

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Played with. [[spoiler: Laura would rather die than let herself be a conduit for BOB]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A particularly tear jerking take on this trope. [[spoiler: When the angel appears to Laura when she is despondent in the Black Lodge, it is letting her know that she is worth saving and it never abandoned her]]

* ItGotWorse: Unbelievably so.

* SplitPersonality: Played with. [[spoiler: There's Laura the homecoming queen who helped organise meals on wheels, and then there's the Laura who prostitutes herself and uses heroin. On the same note, the whole BOB/Leland split personality/evil spirit issue]]