Twin Peaks Character Breakdown Laura Palmer
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- In honor of the new series being released on Showtime tomorrow I made a video about the dead girl that started it all Laura Palmer!
Please tell me in the comments what you thought of the character and how the show impacted your life.
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Laura was horribly used by everyone.
Her dad, BOB, Leo, Jacques, Ben Horne, Emory Battis, Blackie, Jacoby (he had a crush on her, had some perverted pleasure in the therapy with Laura), even Bobby (who cheated her on with Shelly), not to mention the other men.
They all used her.
The others pretended to be blind: her mom, Donna, James, Harold.
Laura was alone, Laura was lonely, Laura was betrayed.
I feel so sorry for her!
That is just life, happens to all of us.
@@Dzanarika1 not with all of us!! if this happened to all of us we all would already be dead!!!
TRUE
Laura also used everyone. The only true monsters in her life was her parents. Nobody forced her to start prostitute herself, so while I hate everyone who benefits from this sort of behavior (obviously human trafficking etc. is one of the worst things that humans do, but One Eyed Jacks is just a bordello) I don't think they really used her. Though I'm not certain if any one of the girls were underaged, then it's obviously massive crime. And morally it's horrible anyway, but these perfum counter girls chose their fate.
@@juzujuzu4555 Laura was used and abused by her father/BOB since she was twelve. Her father practically raped her since early adolescence, she was an innocent child when the sexual abuse started. Her father/BOB tortured her mentally as well, telling her she was a worthless whore, she had a horrible life.
Laura used cocaine as a painkilller for her soul, she was a tortured soul, abused and humiliated, but she had to function in everyday life, that's why she needed cocaine AND money. Money for cocaine.
That's why she worked as a prostitute.
Her lifestyle was not her choice, nobody could endure the regular rape, not just rape, but incest for years and years and years, BOB destroyed her soul.
I feel sorry for Laura, she was a victim, she had no choice.
No choice.
To me Laura is the one, the one mystery of mysteries in Twin Peaks. The one whose motivations are hard to understand, and the one who is not relatable, unless you're an abuse victim yourself and struggle with the same feelings and demons as Laura did. So when you're an abuse victim yourself, Laura's story might help you to cope and survive and become Carrie. And when you're not an abuse victim and can't relate to Laura, her story might make you wonder, how many women (and men) are out there who suffer from abuse, silently, which might make you more gentle towards people in general. Besides all that, Sheryl Lee really makes that character come to life. Moreover, she was destined to play/be that character. There is more of Laura Palmer in Sheryl Lee, at least there was, almost like Laura was real and one of the infesting spirits of the Lodge, and Laura infested Sheryl Lee. So, again, there is a double side, Laura Palmer the shadow self of Sheryl Lee, maybe? And that connection makes Laura Palmer as well as Sheryl Lee even more interesting and at the heart of it all. Laura is the one.
This was your best character breakdown, which makes sense because Laura's character is so on-point psychologically. She's the perfect symbol of the cycle of abuse. First comes the abuse. Next comes the taking back of power through engaging in similar situations, only this time voluntarily. She dilutes the impact of her sexual experiences with Bob by making them merely one of many. The more mundane you make sex, especially violent sex, the less you need to feel like a victim. The comments about bodily and sexual autonomy are spot on. The final step in the cycle is becoming the abuser. Laura valiantly resists this step, giving her a redemptive ending if not a happy one. Excellent character.
Thanks!
Great comments. I especially liked your comments that Laura resisted abusing others; thus her triumph in death. Leland may have been abused by "Bob" as well, but unfortunately was not able to muster the strength shown by his daughter.
I agree for the most part, but she treated Bobby like shit. Some could say he deserved it, I guess ...
She is so beautiful I think💙
I am a man, but an abuse survivor (from a woman). I see many aspects of Laura in myself
My thoughts on Laura Palmer/Twin Peaks: somehow the show and the movie affect me slowly but thoroughly. The show has a mystery and a soap opera feel most of the time and Fire Walk With Me has a very pleasing aesthetic. Add to that the jazzy music. And the beautiful, dark Laura Palmer theme, which captures her story truthfully. But under this nice veneer there is this unspeakable tragedy of Laura Palmer, which makes you sad and even cry a little, when you focus only on her, when you ignore everything else, including the mystery stuff, like the lodge, and even the image of Bob being an evil spiritual entity. Because then you're left only with the hard truth that Laura was extremely suffering, falling, fighting against her suffering, and ultimately coming to the point where she needed to die to be relieved of her pain. The only upside is that she didn't become a killer herself, that she won the battle against becoming evil. But at what price? I actually would love to know how many real life abuse victims and those around them loving them are drawn to Twin Peaks. How many Lauras, Donnas and Jameses find some sort of catharsis and maybe comfort in this story?
As a person who had an extremely and very eerily similar adolescence to Laura on nearly every level, I can say that twin peaks brought me more comfort, understanding of myself, peace and healing than anything else, therapy included.. it's pretty crazy how dramatically it affected me to see my own life from a different perspective, with the empathy you can find for others but rarely yourself. For four years when I discovered it in my mid twenties I could only fall asleep if I was listening to twin peaks playing in the background and to this day if I ever have insomnia I can put it on in any state and will be asleep in ten minutes.
@@angharadrobinson7314 I love that you got better, and I love that Twin Peaks helps you.
Probably the most depressing character breakdown I've ever seen.
I hear ya on that one!
This is totally amazing! You're doing god's work my man. Seriously, this deserves about 10 million more views. Please never stop what you're doing, it's awesome
Thanks!
One of the best TV shows ever!!!
she was dat gurrrlll. rip to my homegirl.
Люблю Твин Пикс! Моя ностальгия детства!👍👍👍👍👍
Man, I just found this. This is amazing and I will join my friend in re-watching this series and Fire: Walk With Me.
Excellent video!
Thanks!
I saw Bob in this episode way more than I should have. xD
Laura was mean to James to protect him.
I wonder though if she ever made fun of him for being "dumb" like she does to bobby in the movie. Maybe not but at least privately she thought he was "dumb."
Thought I'd keep you on your toes by throwing the creepy Bob sequences in unexpectedly ; )
20:44 I've recently found this* chapter of an essay from 1999 which seems to suggest that the Red Room is the site of the crime, more precise the inverted version of traditional crime scenes in TV. Cooper gets his answers through the clues he sees or is told in his dream state of mind. I suggest in this interpretation of the Red Room, the red curtains represent blood, as does the red suit of the Man From Another Place, who'd become The Arm, taken from the body of a former serial killer who took pleasure in murdering. That's why The Arm likes to dance, it's a dance of joy from killing. The Arm didn't kill Laura, but MIKE was sort of an accessory. Maybe Laura didn't see anything bad in sitting next to The Arm or MIKE in The Return, since she wanted to die anyway.
On the same page you'll find a quote by Michael J. Anderson, who stated in an interview, that Cooper was falling in love with Laura, hence the "birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air." That could explain partially, why Cooper is still in the Lodge 25 years later, and Leland tells him to find Laura, because Cooper wants to find Laura, and save her, but he can't save her, and so he's back in the Lodge with her at the end of The Return, cause that's the only place where he can find Laura. I don't know though how to work in Carrie in that speculation.
* www.thecityofabsurdity.com/papers/detective22.html (the page didn't load in Firefox, but in Brave and in Opera GX. I didn't try out other browsers. If you have to click your way to the essay with thecityofabsurdity as starting point, then click on Papers -> The Detective in Twin Peaks -> 2.2. The Red Room Dream / The Female Victim as Subject. I haven't yet read the whole essay, but the author had some pretty good ideas about a third season would play out in terms of doppelgangers.)
Should I watch fire walk with me?
Absolutely. Its a much weirder, spookier movie than the show was. I have a feeling the new series is going to resemble the movie in tone more than the show. Just a hunch though.
Yes. It's a great movie. Be forewarned though that it's really disturbing.
Michael Snow you were right.
What did lead you to think so?
His work in Mullholand Dr and Inland empire got weirder and darker as time went on. I didn't think he could go back to something as innocent (comparatively) as the early series.
Michael Snow Probably he watched too much true detective also
thank u!
Very Nice!!
Thanks!
She was 17 not 18
you keep saying 18 years old, the girls are 17.
all characters depicted are 18 years of age or older - the state
@@plasticweapon they are 17 they say that the very first episode of the series
I don''t think that is so much of an importance compared to the stuff he is talking about.
I see a parallel between Twin Peaks and the 1996 novel "Medea" by Christa Wolf. Something evil has happened and a whole town suffers from the repercussions.
Thanks. I might have to check that novel out!
@@michaelsnow1 I'm planning to read the novel again myself! I remember an eerie feeling while reading it, because it's the kind of fiction that is real. And Medea does the detective work, unravelling the mystery. But first: "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer."
this is the oldest looking high school student I've ever seen
Not true. She was 18 or 19 when show came out.
@@thehouseofcm nope. she was actually 25 when the show came out.
She was 25. 😉
@@KatiaKossiak -
According to Sheryl Lee Wikipedia she was born in 1967. So she was actually 25 back then like you said.
Cocaine, bro
Sheryl Lee is a fantastic and beautiful talent and made this character real.
She truly is a haunting dream that the town cannot forget.
laura's story always brought me to tears and i'm ever disgusted by how much season 3 ruined and shit on it
I do not like season 3 at all.
I didn't think a character analysis would make me cry, but this one did. I really feel for Laura Palmer.
I wish there was a character breakdown of Harold. They could have worked with this character little bit longer, because he was so intriguing, mysterious, understanding and king, yet very disturbed and dissapointed by the reality surrounding him.
For an underrated actress like Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer leading such a double life in the film "FWWM", who else could have pulled off like her.
Plus when it comes to the red room scenes in the movie & t.v. series, she's done such a good job with the night & day difference between the cheerfulness teary laughter Laura seeing that angel & that eerily blood curdling screaming doppelganger of her's.
Laura Palmer is my mirror
I identify with Laura Palmer immensely, to the point of carrying a child... The pot was always laced. The red bulb in my lamp would disappear by morning. The incense lingered in my mind. The excuses always came readily. The drugs helped. And now, I'm healed. God does work in retrobutional [sic] ways. I'm not against abortion. Contraire mon cheri...[double sic] But I felt it wasn't my right to take his/her life away. I'm not a bible thumper. But, damn! H.E. is now dead...oh well
there is no character in any other series or movie ive ever identified with more
Michael please do episodic reactions videos. We need your expert analysis for the new series
I will be!
These videos are great man, thank you so much! Michael Snow you son of Mike Frost
Laura Palmer is avesome character
I tend to think that Laura is a resident of the White Lodge, and given that I also think the White Lodge and Black Lodge are mirrors of each other, she has a mirror of herself in the Black Lodge.
That's probably the case. But is her soul trapped in there? Like was it her choice to stay after her death? I hope so.
I think that if she redeemed herself by refusing BOB, she would be in the White Lodge willingly.
Hmmm, as I began wondering the same once it comes to any of the red room scenes.
In the end of the film "FWWM" the now dead Laura Palmer's all in such glamoured appearance along with the cheerfulness teary laughter once the angel appeared.
As for the t.v. series red room scenes, this dead one happens to be a eerily horrifying type who lets out such blood curdling screams!
I think the Laura we see in the waiting room is Laura as she was before she died. She wears her homecoming dress (I guess), she's sexual in a masochistic way ("sometimes my arm bend back"), sexual in a spontaneous way (kisses Dale for no reason?), denies reality ("I feel like I know her..."), then accepts reality ("I am Laura Palmer"), and is filled with secrets, shares one of them with Cooper ("My father killed me"). She seems to tell him something new and surprising, which changes everything in The Return though. Is that part of her manipulative self?
But I also really like the idea that Laura has faced her shadow self with perfect courage and was able to travel to the White Lodge. Parts of her, memories(?), feelings(?) are still in the Black Lodge, and influence her in the White Lodge and vice versa?
She was 17
I love the scene with Donna about the floating in space, it is chilling and extremely sad all at the same time! Great video :)
If this story were a real life event, the giant should and would have been there for her, because he created her. I have good spirits around me to balance out the presence of the negative ones. The negative ones being predominantly human and the positive ones being a mixture of human and non human beings.
Your breakdowns are the best Michael!
Thanks!
This is an amazing video and such a complex breakdown of the character. I love it.
exellent breakdown
Even though I barely understood Fire Walk With Me I always thought Sheryl Lee should have gotten the Best Actress award. What a performance. I'm sad that she died of cancer. He movie Bliss was so amazing.
She's still alive.
Well done!
I've always struggled to see Laura's good side
Really? She was helping Audrey's brother Johnny, she was working with Meals on Wheels, she was tutoring Josie, etc.
eh, not enough to outweigh her shitty side
I mean sacrificing her life to end the cycle of abuse was pretty “good” but you know, whatever