The separation between abuser and abused is oft smaller than we are lead to believe. In the original run of Twin Peaks, David Lynch made a clear division between BOB and Leland Palmer, sure they inhabited the same body, but they were different. Leland was not BOB, could never be BOB.
One of the major things Lynch accomplishes in this masterpiece of a film is flip that notion on its head. The separation between BOB and Leland becomes ever so…