Edgar Allan Poe believed that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” Twin Peaks the series might have gone along with that notion, but Fire Walk with Me rejects it. As Lee plays Laura, she is desperately alive. Some faulted the film as a cruel exhumation, resurrecting Laura only to kill her again, but Lynch’s point is to show us how she lived and what she experienced.
