inland empire

I stumbled across this IMDB user last night and was tripping fucking out reading his interpretations of this film....i found them simply outlandish at first, but gave some time and followed him and it was actually really engaging. he's put enough work into it for it to qualify as an academic study..

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur17606738/boards/profile/

if for nothing else than an interesting read, laughs, it's very good.

Cool... but... ehm... where do I start? What would you recommend us reading first?

i started here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/board/...77332#112777332 and then looked up his profile and read all his other replies.

some guy went to me and said that on mullholland drive was the corpse dreaming and not her, it makes no sense....

i found it amazing that there's an entire website dedicated to MH theories....bit OOC. I find inland empire much more complicated and worthy of speculation and theory than MH.

  CBrown said:

i found it amazing that there's an entire website dedicated to MH theories....bit OOC. I find inland empire much more complicated and worthy of speculation and theory than MH.

wtf is mh?

mulholland highway

sorry MD

as much as i love David Lynch (Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive gave me the best movie experiences i've ever had) i had a very difficult time digesting INLAND EMPIRE

it was a real mindfuck, and i found it difficult to sit trought it

i am not sure if i even like or dislike the movie ... i need to rewatch it when i'm up for it again

but concerning interpretations ... i don't think i'm gonna bother with this one

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In an interview with Joe Huang at the AFI Dallas Film Festival, David Lynch stated that "Inland Empire" wasn't originally intended to be a feature film. He would simply come up with an idea and - utilizing the versatility and ease of using DV cameras - would film it, creating a series of seemingly unrelated scenes; the first scene filmed was Laura Dern's monologue to the silent psychiatrist. As time progressed, he began to see how the stories were connected, and continued filming scenes for it until he had what we see now. Rumors that Lynch began filming without a script are more or less incorrect, as he would write a short scene and film it, without having the intention of making feature length film.

i know Lynch doesn't do random stuff, if he does something he does it for a reason

but with this film he started out randomly ... and did more random scenes, and then eventually sewed them together

it all gave me a feeling of incoherentness

now, forgive me for using the word 'random' .. it is a wrong word to describe this film, but i can't come up with a better word

its just that im not gonna go interpretate this film

sure there are connections, but what about the meanings?

im not gonna bother, in fact, i look at this movie like i look at any other surreal artwork

like Beksinki for example ... its very easy to interpretate and look for meaning in his paintings, but Beksinski stated many times that he doesn't care for symbolism or stories or meanings behind his images

therefore, one must look at his work like a beautiful image that affects you

and if you must interpretate or give meaning to it, keep it to yourself, because theres a very big chance that you're very wrong

and just lay back and enjoy what you're looking at without overanalyzing it too much

or something

i dunno

now i really have the urge to watch the movie again

mostly to make sure if all i said above is bullshit or not

i liked the rabbit segments, thats pretty much it though

  triachus said:

as much as i love David Lynch (Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive gave me the best movie experiences i've ever had) i had a very difficult time digesting INLAND EMPIRE

 

it was a real mindfuck, and i found it difficult to sit trought it

 

i am not sure if i even like or dislike the movie ... i need to rewatch it when i'm up for it again

 

 

but concerning interpretations ... i don't think i'm gonna bother with this one

 

  Quote

In an interview with Joe Huang at the AFI Dallas Film Festival, David Lynch stated that "Inland Empire" wasn't originally intended to be a feature film. He would simply come up with an idea and - utilizing the versatility and ease of using DV cameras - would film it, creating a series of seemingly unrelated scenes; the first scene filmed was Laura Dern's monologue to the silent psychiatrist. As time progressed, he began to see how the stories were connected, and continued filming scenes for it until he had what we see now. Rumors that Lynch began filming without a script are more or less incorrect, as he would write a short scene and film it, without having the intention of making feature length film.

 

i know Lynch doesn't do random stuff, if he does something he does it for a reason

 

but with this film he started out randomly ... and did more random scenes, and then eventually sewed them together

 

it all gave me a feeling of incoherentness

 

now, forgive me for using the word 'random' .. it is a wrong word to describe this film, but i can't come up with a better word

 

 

its just that im not gonna go interpretate this film

sure there are connections, but what about the meanings?

im not gonna bother, in fact, i look at this movie like i look at any other surreal artwork

like Beksinki for example ... its very easy to interpretate and look for meaning in his paintings, but Beksinski stated many times that he doesn't care for symbolism or stories or meanings behind his images

therefore, one must look at his work like a beautiful image that affects you

and if you must interpretate or give meaning to it, keep it to yourself, because theres a very big chance that you're very wrong

and just lay back and enjoy what you're looking at without overanalyzing it too much

 

or something

 

i dunno

 

 

now i really have the urge to watch the movie again

 

mostly to make sure if all i said above is bullshit or not

i think it's all down to the audience and what they want to make of it - whether they want to look for deeper meaning, or just appreciate it in a basic way for what it is and how it enters their senses, whatever the case, it's all valid. i do enjoy the nutcrackers though who take the time to analyze and share their interpretations, i think it's very fun.

ps interpretate is not a word.

  Brian Tregaskin said:

mulholland highway

lol

I love Lynch but Inland Empire was just plain boring. Actully no, not boring ... but it didn't have that spark like MH, sorry, MD and Eraserhead and Blue Velvet and...

i saw that shit on acid, that movie needs to be seen on acid

I dunno, I've heard pretty convincing arguments that INLAND EMPIRE is more straight-forward than you think.

It's about the difference between varying versions of a story. The alley behind the market/The alley behind the studio is the key... Laura Dern leaves her own story and becomes trapped in "the difference"--- the forboding forgotten alleys that connect her story, the story of the actors who tried to make the film years ago, and the story of the real people whom that film was based on.

There are key elements of each story that resemble one another, but underneath that surface, there is so much that is not the same and never could be. I think it's a pretty brilliant consideration of what is really going on in a culture that glibly recycles, repurposes, "reboots" old stories...

i love inland empire, but yeah, trying to interpret it is probably a waste of energy. it's like an evocative melody.

i think david lynch said that "it's a mystery," which seems to imply that it can be puzzled out, but whatever. it'd probably be disappointing if you did. a large part of the draw for me is how uncanny it all is.

inland empire was a great experience

lynch hasn' got a clue what he's doing he just goes with the flow and in the end we get a movie

lynch's movies are like motion picture Rorschach tests

anybody claiming to derive a concrete objective meaning out of Inland Empire is projecting their own subconscious imagination onto the movie

you may be right but i think most people overanalyse the film and to me inland empire is like a poemlike the theme song and the main theme is intelletcual pollotion, also the problems of marriage (lynch being a fan of kubrick... hint:1999) and he has even made commercials about keeping america clean. 2 big elements are important to recognize in the film : one of the main scenes where she talks about pollution making people think all weird : companies like Exxon ...

and when nicky grace goes behind the alley and enters a door called Axxon n ...those are very important elements of the film

the couple at the begining of the movie at the hotel room and the couple at the end of the movie ...arent they the same ppl ??

OMG SHIT

THAT BEGINNING PART OF "UNTRUE" IS FROM INLAND EMPIRE

SHIT I JUST REALIZED THAT WHAT THE FORK

wha ??

that creep can roll, man.

I love this movie. It takes so long to sit through, but afterwards you feel very strange. I loved the parts focusing on the red lamp changing, and the successful stigma that Lynch attached to it.

more things that happened

It scared the living shit out of me.