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-Noah- 

I don't think Lynch's movies deal with things that "could happen", so to speak, in the way you mean it. It is to me a sort of other realm. Lynch just displays subjectivity, and you could say that the events in his films COULD HAPPEN because anything can really happen subjectively (the REALITY of ideas). In a sense, by definition Lynch can be considered surrealist whether he liked it or not just because it is automatism. But on the other hand, what does surrealism even mean nowadays, I mean it's just a word. This method of automatism is an innate function of the human being, Breton just defined it as surrealism, but that doesn't mean there has been no surrealism (by definition) from the beginning of humanity up to modernism.

I see Brechtian alienation as an element of realism, and I would say for example Bergman certainly uses it quite a bit. But Lynch I would say falls into the side of subjective expressionism of abstract perceptions of the mind.

I think Twin Peaks does make us aware of theatricality of the TV programme or film at certain times. Look at the Red Room sequences. The red curtains make us think of a theatre and the perfectly flat floor with the zigzag pattern is like a stage. A spotlight often appears on certain characters, usually the Lodge spirits, eg, when the curtains appear in Glastonbury Grove, or when Jimmy Scott sings "Sycamore Trees".

 These are the occasions when Twin Peaks reminds us we are just watching a TV show, which is not really that different from a play. We should not be surprised when the impossible happens, because none of this is real anyway!

Sorry, but you are completely on a wrong track. Brecht is about politics and destroying all potential emotional involvement with the depicted world ("Glotzt nicht so romantisch").

Lynch is the best possible opposite imaginable, call him a romanticist if you will.

This would look good on your wall.

-Noah- 

As far as I know, there is no direct political message in Lynch's films, TV, paintings, etc, and there are not political statements. But I think he may still use alienation effect sometimes.

Perhaps the dream sequences are examples of a character stepping out of his life and looking at his situation, his relationship with other characters. In Mulholland Drive, Diane Selwyn re-imagines her entire life so that it is better. In Lost Highway, Fred Madison creates an alternative reality in his mind, in which he is younger and his wife is replaced by a similar woman. These are just a few examples.

Perhaps in episode 29, Cooper goes into the Black Lodge, effectively stepping out of and being alienated from reality for a short time, and he is forced by the Black Lodge to re-examine specific events from his past life, eg, Windom Earle's murder of Caroline and stabbing of Cooper. He even looks down on the floor and sees himself!

Could these be examples of alienation?