But, I don't want every little detail explained. That takes away the room to dream, which is ever so important in Lynch's work. This is why I watch Lynch. The concepts of the film make sense to me, there is just no clear progression in the narrative. This film doesn't need one, though, as it gets all it's concepts and ideas across in a more abstract way. I think this film is absolutely amazing, and, in some ways, more pure and exposed than Mulholland Drive. It is certainly more visceral.
A great quote:
"David Lynch has been making INLAND EMPIRE his whole career. It towers above all of his work as the definitive David Lynch experience. Like 8 1/2 and Vertigo and Raging Bull it is the perfect combination of filmmaker and style and subject matter. It is a perfect film. It is cinema in its purest form."
Its purest form... I tend to agree.
"INLAND EMPIRE feels like a bold new step forward towards a new cinema that uses the stylistic tools of the medium to convey ideas without narrative. After all, every story is an old story. Lynch proves that movies need not be constrained by the bounds of narrative, traditional or otherwise. INLAND EMPIRE is post-intellectual. It is beyond the realms of literary theory. The film is emotional, frightening, funny and redemptive"
Narrative in film isn't necessary, and this is the latest example of this theory. I felt the shackles of my mind attempting to restrain the film into a cohesive, story-like flow, but Lynch's mastery of the language of cinema, which transcends mere stories and reaches into the sub-basement of our minds, shattered those fetters and set me adrift in the dream worlds of Inland Empire.
Inspiring, frightening, disarming, and exhilarating... this film exceeded my expectations.
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire
A great quote:
"David Lynch has been making INLAND EMPIRE his whole career. It towers above all of his work as the definitive David Lynch experience. Like 8 1/2 and Vertigo and Raging Bull it is the perfect combination of filmmaker and style and subject matter. It is a perfect film. It is cinema in its purest form."
Its purest form... I tend to agree.
"INLAND EMPIRE feels like a bold new step forward towards a new cinema that uses the stylistic tools of the medium to convey ideas without narrative. After all, every story is an old story. Lynch proves that movies need not be constrained by the bounds of narrative, traditional or otherwise. INLAND EMPIRE is post-intellectual. It is beyond the realms of literary theory. The film is emotional, frightening, funny and redemptive"
Narrative in film isn't necessary, and this is the latest example of this theory. I felt the shackles of my mind attempting to restrain the film into a cohesive, story-like flow, but Lynch's mastery of the language of cinema, which transcends mere stories and reaches into the sub-basement of our minds, shattered those fetters and set me adrift in the dream worlds of Inland Empire.
Inspiring, frightening, disarming, and exhilarating... this film exceeded my expectations.
Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire
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