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The other night I finally got a chance to watch David Lynch's new movie,
INLAND EMPIRE on dvd. WOW! I am speechless. I love David Lynch, but this
movie blew me away. Yes, it is 3 hours long and at points seems to drag
a little, but overall it is a masterpiece. It is unlike anything I have
ever seen before. It really makes other favorites like "Mulholland
Drive" seem like child's play. A lot of people will be detoured from the
film. It is obvious that a lot of people who claim they like artsy/indie
film will see it as just being "too artsy". For, in the end, past
offering like "Mulholland Drive", "Lost Highway", etc all come across as
being MAINSTREAM in comparison.
In the end, the film all makes sense. But, to try to explain it (as
there are 4 different stories taking place, all involving the lead
actress Laura Dern) is beyond difficult. I will leave the explanation up
to this synopsis I found below. All in all, LOVED IT. One of the best
movies I have seen all year. There is still so much to see in the film
after repeat viewings and I can not wait to watch it again. Definetly
one I will be adding to my collection when I can afford such!
***
David Lynch reconfigures film noir again in his latest digital epic
starring Laura Dern as, surprise, an actress. Cinema is noir, a shadow
land of two-dimensional life flitting across a silvered screen. Feelings
of deja vu abound, as the dream logic unfolds. Not only are the many
landmarks of Lynch's imagination here, the mysteriously lit fifties
interiors, the industrial soundtracks, immeasurable depths of darkness
punctuated by blinding light, but the feeling of dream deja vu is
captured. Dern and Justin Theroux are being directed by Jeremy Irons in
a film called On High in Blue Tomorrows. Lynch explores the spaces
created by the actors, in the darkness and magic of Hollywood. The
underworld they inhabit is unredeemable yet filled with spiritual light.
Dern becomes other characters in her own passion play revealing the self
and its countless reflections and reverberations. Lynch replaces his
typical structures with a sort of elegant shorthand as he references
everything from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sunset Boulevard, and The Three
Faces of Eve.
A further step away from the deconstructed cinema of Mulholland Drive
and Lost Highway, Inland Empire is neither a collection of vignettes and
thoughts nor a cohesive whole. It is more like the outline to an
imagined feminist manifesto that achieves epic proportions in spite of
its willful failure as entertainment. Lynch's fascination with the
anima and the energy of thanatos is discernible yet undecipherable. The
film attempts to come full circle as Dern, portraying multiple parts in
what seems to be many films, arrives in a vintage movie theater,
watching herself play the character she was moments before. The theater
becomes the launching pad for the unconscious, branching out into sets
the viewer has seen previously, exploring the contents of mind and its
forgotten secrets.
Baroque in set and sound design, yet minimalist in approach to content,
Inland Empire will certainly appeal to long-time fans, with its many
references (and new additions) to Lynch's rich cinematic history.
INLAND EMPIRE on dvd. WOW! I am speechless. I love David Lynch, but this
movie blew me away. Yes, it is 3 hours long and at points seems to drag
a little, but overall it is a masterpiece. It is unlike anything I have
ever seen before. It really makes other favorites like "Mulholland
Drive" seem like child's play. A lot of people will be detoured from the
film. It is obvious that a lot of people who claim they like artsy/indie
film will see it as just being "too artsy". For, in the end, past
offering like "Mulholland Drive", "Lost Highway", etc all come across as
being MAINSTREAM in comparison.
In the end, the film all makes sense. But, to try to explain it (as
there are 4 different stories taking place, all involving the lead
actress Laura Dern) is beyond difficult. I will leave the explanation up
to this synopsis I found below. All in all, LOVED IT. One of the best
movies I have seen all year. There is still so much to see in the film
after repeat viewings and I can not wait to watch it again. Definetly
one I will be adding to my collection when I can afford such!
***
David Lynch reconfigures film noir again in his latest digital epic
starring Laura Dern as, surprise, an actress. Cinema is noir, a shadow
land of two-dimensional life flitting across a silvered screen. Feelings
of deja vu abound, as the dream logic unfolds. Not only are the many
landmarks of Lynch's imagination here, the mysteriously lit fifties
interiors, the industrial soundtracks, immeasurable depths of darkness
punctuated by blinding light, but the feeling of dream deja vu is
captured. Dern and Justin Theroux are being directed by Jeremy Irons in
a film called On High in Blue Tomorrows. Lynch explores the spaces
created by the actors, in the darkness and magic of Hollywood. The
underworld they inhabit is unredeemable yet filled with spiritual light.
Dern becomes other characters in her own passion play revealing the self
and its countless reflections and reverberations. Lynch replaces his
typical structures with a sort of elegant shorthand as he references
everything from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sunset Boulevard, and The Three
Faces of Eve.
A further step away from the deconstructed cinema of Mulholland Drive
and Lost Highway, Inland Empire is neither a collection of vignettes and
thoughts nor a cohesive whole. It is more like the outline to an
imagined feminist manifesto that achieves epic proportions in spite of
its willful failure as entertainment. Lynch's fascination with the
anima and the energy of thanatos is discernible yet undecipherable. The
film attempts to come full circle as Dern, portraying multiple parts in
what seems to be many films, arrives in a vintage movie theater,
watching herself play the character she was moments before. The theater
becomes the launching pad for the unconscious, branching out into sets
the viewer has seen previously, exploring the contents of mind and its
forgotten secrets.
Baroque in set and sound design, yet minimalist in approach to content,
Inland Empire will certainly appeal to long-time fans, with its many
references (and new additions) to Lynch's rich cinematic history.
