the solo speeches, and theories
There are three solo episodes, each giving a different version of the same speech.
Episode 3, Jane gives a solo speech.
Ep 5, Jack gives one.
Ep 7, Suzie gives one.
Someone in a different thread talked about how when the camera loses focus and then refocuses, it usually implies memory, as per Inland Empire of the same era, and with the Rabbits connection.
This refocusing happens before each of the solo speeches, and after each of the Red Rabbit visits. (after the Red Rabbit + scream, for the final one)
Suzie gives the most complete version.
Jack's version is very similar to Suzie's, but drops a few lines here and there, and doesn't have the 14 final lines
Jane's version jumps all around Suzie's version, and then adds 6 lines at the end that are unique to hers.
I like the idea of this being hell/purgatory, and they are dealing with the last remnants of their lives, facing their last moments. I think the dark content of the repeated speech alludes to a sinister narrative. Perhaps a tryst, revenge, a fire, etc.
I also like the idea that Suzie is the one summoning the demon / Red Rabbit, or is at least far more involved, as she always leaves the room and returns with the candle lights, which are also lit during the solo speeches, linking them to the whole ritual.
I think they are trapped, and in moments of clarity remember something about their lasts moments.
I think the formatting of the show, the laugh track, and the discombobulated speech are metaphorical devices being employed by Lynch. He's uses the sitcom tropes to create something familiar & banal, and yet terrifying.
I see it as more WE, the viewer, are peering in to this purgatory, which is why it does not make coherent sense. The lack of coherency does not disrupt the rabbits, it is just a product of our role as an observer, trying to understand lives we don't know, and who barely know themselves.
Lives that are reconciling violence, dwindling memories, and inflicting the last methods of control available (Suzie and the Red Rabbit).
For me, there are three structures I tend to think about separately:
1) the narrative of the 3 and what occurred (piecing together the speeches and that intrigue)
2) the nature of the reality they exist in (is it purgatory? Is the scream someone entering or exiting that hell? The relationship of the refocusing to memory, ritual, and the Red Rabbit?)
3) the nature of being an observer upon the unobservable, and how the context of sitcom tropes and discombobulation is more just about how we witness and try and make sense of what is unfolding, as opposed to something more key in understanding the events within.
Anyways, here is the text of the three speeches, given in a different order.
Thanks to whomever transcribed these first.
This is Suzie's speech, and Jack's They are almost the same. I have Bolded parts that are ONLY Suzie's speech.
And getting darker.
An old warm rug.
A dog crawls.
Something's wrong.
(the fire ignites at this point)
The dog crawls.
Lights blow out.
A wind.
Dark.
Smiling teeth.
A swollen tongue.
The dog crawls.
The socket drips.
Disease.
Hot.
Electricity.
Barbed wire.
Sharp.
Tearing open, red.
And wiggeling,
wet dogs.
Running swollen blue feet.
Tearing,
scraping.
Black, oil blood.
Yellow saliva.
Dark room.
Broken window.
Band Aid, old grease cotton.
Grean tear.
Vinyl
knife.
Steam
blood.
Burn.
Bulk.
Cord.
Bugs wiggle on their backs.
Legs high.
Ceiling drip.
Cold
distant siren.
Distant ships.
Distant ships.
Distant ships.
Moving wing.
Fingers.
Old skin.
Smoke.
Oil.
heat.
Mirror.
Smear of blood.
Eye opens
darkness.
So Suzie's speech has unique parts that are intruiging.
"Band Aid, old grease cotton." fire starting material?
"Cord. Bugs wiggle on their backs" could she have tied the two other up, or is she being literal?
"Ceiling drip." no idea
And then the final section has the siren, smoke, oil, heat. Then looks in to a mirror?
Jane's speech is far shorter, uses lots of the same words, but jumps around in the timeline that Suzie and Jack adhere to.
Something’s wrong
Coooooold
Sirens
Dark
Smiling Teeth
Moving wing fingers
smoke, oil
Heating (fire lights and burns)
Mirror
Smear of blood
Eyes open
Darkness
Cold, wet
Bug in bed
Torn bug in bed
Crawling
ooooooh where
moooooooooves
(please note there is a lot of variation in transcriptions as to what actual words are said in some cases) share