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Film: Inland Empire (David Lynch)
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tribal girl
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*bump*
I haven't been really excited about a film for ages but this looks cool. I shall have to venture down to the cinema next week to see it.
I haven't been really excited about a film for ages but this looks cool. I shall have to venture down to the cinema next week to see it.
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canaana
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Speaking of Lynch, has anyone here seen his series of shorts "Rabbits"?
Its really the most confusing David Lynch work I've seen, as it has no plot, no story, and no conceivable order to the dialog. Strange but interesting nonetheless.
Its really the most confusing David Lynch work I've seen, as it has no plot, no story, and no conceivable order to the dialog. Strange but interesting nonetheless.
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I saw this movie yesterday with a friend, and as suspected, we left the cinema feeling rather perplexed.
The story starts off pretty straight forward. We meet an actress (Dern) who's been out of the spotlight for quite some time, only to return to the big screen whilst being directed by an over enthusiastic director (Irons).
Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Everything makes perfect sense.
But after an hour or so into it, things start to get a little stranger. But still I felt I was beginning to grasp what was going on, and developed my own ideas about the meaning of the movie.
And this is when all my ideas were blown out of the water with another twist which left me baffled and nursing a headache.
There was a lot of humour in the film. And I particularly enjoyed the scenes with the 'whores' (the Locomotion scene was hilarious beyond belief!). The Chinese woman towards the end had me in stitches again, the old Polish woman, and the TV presenter were definitely the highlights.
All the actors did fantastic jobs. But special mention goes to Laura Dern. I'd never actually seen too many movies with her in. And she always seemed to just be in the background to me. But here she shines brighter than any of the others by a long long way. She's consistently good throughout. But it's the final 'manic' scenes where she excels in my opinion.
Overall, I couldn't make head nor tail of it. And my arse was a bit numb (even at the half way mark). But I did leave the cinema feeling satisfied.
I give it 4/5.
Inland Empire on Film 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIT6KiVtDRM
The story starts off pretty straight forward. We meet an actress (Dern) who's been out of the spotlight for quite some time, only to return to the big screen whilst being directed by an over enthusiastic director (Irons).
Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Everything makes perfect sense.
But after an hour or so into it, things start to get a little stranger. But still I felt I was beginning to grasp what was going on, and developed my own ideas about the meaning of the movie.
And this is when all my ideas were blown out of the water with another twist which left me baffled and nursing a headache.
There was a lot of humour in the film. And I particularly enjoyed the scenes with the 'whores' (the Locomotion scene was hilarious beyond belief!). The Chinese woman towards the end had me in stitches again, the old Polish woman, and the TV presenter were definitely the highlights.
All the actors did fantastic jobs. But special mention goes to Laura Dern. I'd never actually seen too many movies with her in. And she always seemed to just be in the background to me. But here she shines brighter than any of the others by a long long way. She's consistently good throughout. But it's the final 'manic' scenes where she excels in my opinion.
Overall, I couldn't make head nor tail of it. And my arse was a bit numb (even at the half way mark). But I did leave the cinema feeling satisfied.
I give it 4/5.
Inland Empire on Film 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIT6KiVtDRM
psood0nym
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David Lynch’s film “Inland Empire” finally came to my city, and I met it there with 12mg of 4-AcO-DMT loaded in a syringe...
Lynch’s film is a monster lurking in the shadows of a Narnian wardrobe, a world of overlapping fabrics, strange connections made in the dark, and holes in silk, burned through with cigarettes. A world I have always wanted to swim in since I was a child reveling in the terror-charged wonder of nightmares.
“Inland Empire” is a kind of Dadaist meta-film and to say the 4-AcO-DMT added a few layers to the beautiful, self-referential absurdity would be an immense understatement. The theater became an extension of the film, with the creaks of the seats of patrons, unaware and uneasy, becoming the strain of the building itself trying to contain this wild thing from gnashing its way out of the screen. Intermittently the entrance doors would open, allowing phantasmagoric shimmers of light into the darkness as unknown figures quietly shuffled in and out. And my mind was just one more screen, one scattered across these many worlds, letting in dark figures and shimmering light from the cracks at the periphery of my vision. In the film the characters become detached in time. Likewise my mind seemed temporally extended, aware of my how my past was influencing my perceptions and how these haunting images would become slotted for reappearance in the future of my dreams.
The experience and the film were in turn, profound, grotesque, beautiful, hilarious, discordant, and disturbing. Strangely, the disconnected, dream-like images were responsible for the film’s greatest sense of realism. There was something of truth in tumbling through the wardrobe, awash in the plurality of its textures and its shifting threads, something about the depth of an image and the illimitable moment. They are like a puzzle whose completed picture is that of yet another puzzle whose pieces are skillfully hewn together in conflict with their forms, yet the exquisitely fragmentary image produced is a fuller representation of its subject’s reality than the one demanded by objective coherence.
5 stars
Lynch’s film is a monster lurking in the shadows of a Narnian wardrobe, a world of overlapping fabrics, strange connections made in the dark, and holes in silk, burned through with cigarettes. A world I have always wanted to swim in since I was a child reveling in the terror-charged wonder of nightmares.
“Inland Empire” is a kind of Dadaist meta-film and to say the 4-AcO-DMT added a few layers to the beautiful, self-referential absurdity would be an immense understatement. The theater became an extension of the film, with the creaks of the seats of patrons, unaware and uneasy, becoming the strain of the building itself trying to contain this wild thing from gnashing its way out of the screen. Intermittently the entrance doors would open, allowing phantasmagoric shimmers of light into the darkness as unknown figures quietly shuffled in and out. And my mind was just one more screen, one scattered across these many worlds, letting in dark figures and shimmering light from the cracks at the periphery of my vision. In the film the characters become detached in time. Likewise my mind seemed temporally extended, aware of my how my past was influencing my perceptions and how these haunting images would become slotted for reappearance in the future of my dreams.
The experience and the film were in turn, profound, grotesque, beautiful, hilarious, discordant, and disturbing. Strangely, the disconnected, dream-like images were responsible for the film’s greatest sense of realism. There was something of truth in tumbling through the wardrobe, awash in the plurality of its textures and its shifting threads, something about the depth of an image and the illimitable moment. They are like a puzzle whose completed picture is that of yet another puzzle whose pieces are skillfully hewn together in conflict with their forms, yet the exquisitely fragmentary image produced is a fuller representation of its subject’s reality than the one demanded by objective coherence.
5 stars
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psood0nym said:
I'm in agreement with that.
Nice report.
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^Quality!
Hope you enjoy it.
Hope you enjoy it.
how can something so incoherent be both so frightening AND so funny!? the more i think about it, the funnier it gets, and the more scary it gets. damn.
20 minutes in a woman left the theatre screaming at the audience, "it's not funny! go laugh at blue velvet, you're not getting it!"
20 minutes in a woman left the theatre screaming at the audience, "it's not funny! go laugh at blue velvet, you're not getting it!"
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watched this last night on shrooms alone in my dark room and as L2R said, "holy fuck" ... i havent experienced anything like that. i got so lost n' sucked into the scenes forgetting they were shooting a movie. so many times did i get goosebumps. at one point i thought it was gettin to be a bit much while tripping, but i rode it out, glad i did... cause it was something else. definetly gonna watch it sober in a few days... but from the experience watchin it last night in my opinion this film is a masterpiece.
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Film: Inland Empire
Who's seen it?
What'd you think? The only other person I know that's seen it is my boyfriend, and conversation can only go so far (though, definitely not bad).
Who's seen it?
What'd you think? The only other person I know that's seen it is my boyfriend, and conversation can only go so far (though, definitely not bad).
psood0nym
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I saw the DVD over the weekend on psilocin (I recount my 4-AcO-DMT experience of this film in a theater somewhere above). Despite having seen it before, on a few occasions I leapt in the air and yelped in fear (no other movie has done that to me, not even while tripping)—my chest hurt afterwards. This is the most amazing film I’ve ever seen... I don't know that I'll ever watch it sober.
On disc two lynch introduces the film at the premiere with a quote from the Aitareya Upanishad: “We are like the spider. We weave our life and then move along in it. We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream. This is true for the entire universe.” Among other things, the quote further illuminates the use of the folded silk (like spider’s silk) as a portal connecting the film’s various worlds and times. The metaphor of the web goes a long way in this film.
Funniest Line (in context):
"ambulance guys they say, 'what the fuck happened here?' i say, 'he come to reapin what he been sowin, that's what.' they say, 'fucker been sowin some kind of heavy shit.' "
On disc two lynch introduces the film at the premiere with a quote from the Aitareya Upanishad: “We are like the spider. We weave our life and then move along in it. We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream. This is true for the entire universe.” Among other things, the quote further illuminates the use of the folded silk (like spider’s silk) as a portal connecting the film’s various worlds and times. The metaphor of the web goes a long way in this film.
Funniest Line (in context):
"ambulance guys they say, 'what the fuck happened here?' i say, 'he come to reapin what he been sowin, that's what.' they say, 'fucker been sowin some kind of heavy shit.' "
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How could anyone past the first level even experience Inland Empire in such a theatre. I hope the seating was limited to about 50 people, so everyone could get a straight view. In my most humble opinion, the movie needs to be watched at home, on the best screen possible, with one other person at most *and no fucking talking*). And the sound system better be badass with clear bass and no distortion. I would hate to see Inland Empire in a huge theatre with tons of people. Theatres are full of fucking morons, even theatres full of alleged Lynch fans, and these morons will influence your opinion even if they only chuckle at the wrong parts twice.
I saw it in the perfect setting a few days ago on DVD.
While it was being played around the country and the world I was really pissed and frustrated that other people were getting to watch it before me, but after seeing it, and after seeing the above picture of the monstrous theatre that apparently Lynch let ruin the experience for hordes of people, I'm glad I waited. I guess Lynch had to release it in some theatres. Respect for not releasing it "in theatres everywhere."
If I could pick a theatre to see it in with a small group of people, however, the theatre above would be the one. The atmosphere looks beautiful, but people ruin everything.
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