The way he wrote his script is basically what identity crisis is. You get a lot of fragments of identity, but at some point you oversee them and by overseeing them you forget who you are. It is like you see yourself acting in your movie, My mind is blown by this movie!
Woah.. yeah. Nice explanation. Im a huge fan and watched IE while super high.. 10/10 recommend. You face with your/humanity's dark side along with it.. best movie ever made.
The way David Lynch thinks about film is so different from any other filmmaker, he's on a completely different level, in a different dimension from us.
Matejko108 I think the best films he ever made are Eraserhead and Inland empire. I also think most of the short films he made are great, especially Rabbits. I love surrealism and Lost highway and mulholland drive are just not surreal enough for my taste
@@vanadis9790 agree completely; these people are sheep. They want movies made in the standard manner, they can't expand their horizons or think outside the box. There are things I experienced inside me watching Eraserhead and Inland Empire that Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive don't even come close to evoking in me... I mean they are not even in the same stratosphere. Talking about how Inland Empire "is incoherent & doesn't make any sense", you could level the same criticism at Picasso and dismiss his work as tripe: "What's it's meant to be, I can't even tell! Too damn incoherent; I prefer da Vinci!"
@@katelinmarie5360 Okay, I disagree with their assessment of inland empire too, but it's kind of dumb to stir up this narrative about them being "sheep" because their taste isnt as deep and surreal or whatever as yours.
@Matejko108 last year I decided to give David Lynch's films a chance. Of course I'd heard of the classics like Eraserhead and I absolutely fell in love with surrealism so I thought I'd see which films to watch and somebody on CZcams described IE as watching somebody's nightmare. That piece of perspective actually helped me a lot to digest the movie and then I went online to find theories and explanations and wow I'm really blown away. Lynch is like the Escher of cinema. You watch his movies and every time you think you've figured it out, it throws you off. He loops and twists his movies in a way so that all your theories are wrong and right at the same time. I realized surrealism is more about the feeling so it may not make sense or you may not put it into actual sentences but what you felt while experiencing the art will affect you. I know I did. I just felt so personally affected after watching IE and MD and it stayed in my head for weeks. Popular and "normal" movies don't do that and I'm not interested in mediocre.
lyricsfromsweden Twin Peaks reboot in 2016. He got a huge budget and an extension from 9 to 18 episodes. It'll be a masterpiece... Over 18 hours of brand new Lynch for us all to revel in
David Lynch (in this film especially) and the late Abbas Kiarotsami have reached the top point of film art, no one yet overcome them since the 80s in my opinion, they're two of the most original filmmakers of all time, the world of cinema is just grateful for the both of them.
the plot isn't that hard to explain. Laura Dern is some sort of polish ghost. An actress is hired in los angeles, slowly she loses the ability to distinguish between the script and real life. Then there's about an hour of scary noises and people walking down hallways. Finally Laura describes pulling out a man's eye, and then everyone does a fun dance. 10/10
Just after getting caught up in the twin peaks 30 year anniversary, I had to come back to this film. I watch and rewatch DL films all the time, but this one has so many intricacies, and so much depth that it's always rewarding and insightful, no matter how many times it's viewed.
i Live in Lodz, Poland and it's a very inspiring post-apocalyptic city which I've also done many films about. inland empire is not my favourite film of Lynch but through it I feel a defenent connection
I think David Lynch is a great director! His films are so obscure and stays with you a few days after you watch them. Plus, there's a lot of ways you can understand it, and all of the motifs / symbolism.
There are some many scenes in the movie to which i can relate. I must say that i am deeply terrified after watching the movie. I didn't understand all of scenes but i am sure every single scene relates to someone in the world and that's why i love Lynch.
Yes , there seems to be some part of his mind that's exposed in a different way than other people. It's like when you wake and there's those moments before you become fully conscious, and you wiggle your toes! Like electrons fully firing...hmm
I imagine David trying to explain his process like this...since his first thought of films was a paining that moved (ie: motion picture) the way he paints is just too surreal for some people. You see I had an idea to put a streak of red over here then I thought of a blue dot and did that etc. and everyone is asking but why was the dot blue? and David says well it was blue in my mind so that is how I translated it and then everyone stares at him like he is weird when that method makes perfect sense to me too.
That's probably what he calls every little camera you dont need to load film into. I havent touched one since 2005 but even then they weren't good for anything other than documentary style.
He doesn't really even know the plot of his own creations such a genius at improvisation and a great innovator we can all get our own depiction of the films narrative
I used to hate this film until I figured out what it was about. In the late 19th century/early 20th century, The Phantom and the Lost Girl were an item. The Phantom was a physically and mentally abusive husband which resulted in the Lost Girl seeking refuge in the arms of a lover. Her lover, however, was also married and had a son. When the Phantom (who is shown to have mystical powers that stem from an old Polish Gypsy curse) learns of this, he hypnotizes the lover’s wife into killing him and then herself with a screwdriver. He then banishes the Lost Girl to Limbo (symbolized by the hotel room we see her in at the beginning) and forces her to watch the story of her life unfold and the pain her infidelity caused him. He also curses the Lost Girl’s lover into reincarnating time and again in the role of a husband being betrayed by his wife so he can feel what the Phantom felt. The lover’s latest reincarnation sees him in the role of Laura Dern’s abusive Polish husband. It is mentioned that the film is cursed which may play into the mystical powers that the Phantom has. So when Nikki cheats on her husband with Devon, the husband has to experience the pain of his wife’s infidelity again, and then Nikki gets sucked into the world of the film and the story plays out as it does. The Rabbits are a supernatural force that seem to want to stop the Phantom and do so at the end by providing Nikki with a gun to kill the Phantom at the end. When the Phantom dies, the Lost Girl is freed from her imprisonment in Limbo/the hotel room and returns to the arms of her lover (now reincarnated as Nikki’s Polish husband) who is also freed from the curse and they’re both able to live together with their son. There is definitely the whole film within a film going on but the constant cutaways to old Poland in which we learn about the Phantom and the Lost Girl reaffirm my belief that this is a film ultimately about reincarnation and being trapped in a never ending loop until outside forces intervene. Just my two cents. :)
For me, this movie is a medley of different styles and technicals that David wanted to experiment. Beautiful effects, beautiful soundtrack, beautiful actors, but nothing is really linked. He shot separates scenes and stuck them together, like a puzzle. We can always find theories but I'm not sure that it was the purpose here. Very intriging and interesting in many ways, but good luck for watching the 3 hours in one round! I couldn't...
Watched the movie yesterday and I think it's great, but I think you really have to be into the way Lynch directs film and the typical vibe he is often going for to enjoy it since it's really incrompehensible at times. It's not like Mulholland Drive which you can show to people who haven't seen a Lynch film before, since you can still make sense of it and trying to decipher its meaning. Inland Empire is for Lynch fans but not for people who just have started to get into surrealist cinema.
@BTinHD I have seen three David Lynch films: "The Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and have significantly mixed feelings regarding the last two, I'm essentially speechless - since I know there's substance and craftsmanship in Lynch's work - of which possesses very interesting aesthetically abstract ideas regarding the human condition. What film of Lynch's body of work I haven't seen do you recommend to an aspiring filmmaker who loves auteurs like Kubrick and Scorsese?
i actually work it out the same way David does. Only difference is, he is better and successful :3 He found a way to somehow merge his segments together and finishing it at some point.
@Desarollo26 BTW, I am a huge David Lynch and TM fan. Flashes of light in the dark is visual contrast, I agree. The contrast I am referring to is the story line. If the plot were just glimpses of light, then it was overshadowed by lots of darkness. Placing more lighted ideas would have gave the viewer some time to rebound, thinking everything is OK now. Like Twin Peaks. One minute you are laughing, and the next minute freeking out. For me Inland Empire wasn't Lynch at his best. Sorry David.
It begins to make sense now - a streaming thought stream of consciousness poem edited, makes da movie. Makes sense. Yeah fassbinder did that and Herzog. A few others I can't think of on the spot. And like 1Kerouac 2Burroughs and 3Ginsberg - 1raw thought, 2everything permitted, and 3the edit. It's a good formula for poetry.
I came here cause I was really annoyed at the fact, that at the beginning of the movie, I predicted that the movie was going to end with the main character finding out that she’s inside this cursed loop in which she was destined to kill herself over and over again, sort of like the Sisyphus myth. I thought I missed something when the movie stoped making sense in a linear way, so I was wondering if I missed something. It gives me peace of mind to find out that the movie actually was intended to make no sense. I’m still a little annoyed by that.
Inland Empire is essentially a representation of psychoanalysis. The real, imaginary , symbolic. If you understand these concepts you will understand all Lynch's films.
@JesusCristo2002 watch eraserhead , a trip in the subconscient.This movie hurt me.Lots of things to said on this film, but my english is not very good.
Hello, i am a 14 year old film maker from London. I write & direct low budget short films with a friend of mine, and our biggest inspiration is David Lynch. we want our films to be surreal and strange. i would really appreciate it if you could look at our youtube channel and give me some feedback about our films, thanks. Our first film, 'Oneirology' was shown in the london 'under the arch' short film festival last september.
To add contrast to Inland Empire, I would have offered a sense of hope or releif. This would have been a platform to shift unknowingly back to abstract better provoking the viewer. I am all for abstract. However if you are going to paint a portrait, you have to be able to sort the light from the dark. This movie was indeed abstract, but starts dark, and regresses darker. Mullholand Dr was great because of the use of contrasting ideas. It clicked. David dropped the ball on Inland Empire.
Lynch says he starts with ideas which goes down a path, and it dictates the direction of the movie, ruling out choices that might change the direction. With Inland Impire, the ideas were indeed abstract, but lacked contrast. The movie starts with a mind fuk, and stays on a narrow hopeless path. This is not a new concept for David. I found the over use of senseless dialogue, murder, blood and guts tiring after 3 hrs. The glimmer of hope was missing from this idea. To be continued.
I am responding, although a traditional reply isn't possible, to Leon Herpergers 8 month ago statement, which is the essence of laziness in cinematic analysis. He says; I tend to wonder the sanity of Lynch. is it any coincidence that he has far out ideas of spirituality? he's starting to resemble other supposed genuises whose eccentricism has gone so far as to make them completely unrealistic. he's like another Stockhausen, so far gone as to be completely removed from reality. it's a shame these unique minds are glorified rather than put to criticism. what exactly is the point of art if no one can relate to it, other than a handful of fanatics willing to pat him on the back no matter how incoherent his output may be. and also willing to try and justify such obscurity through meaningless interpretation of completely inconsistent films, of which Lynch himself won't even try to explain. isn't that pretentiousness at it's finest? creating art beyond realistic application? Lynch explains his films, through the medium of film formalistic and symbolism. Lynch who went to art-school before AFI and understood symbolism and meaning to a degree most people don't even know exists prior to making Eraserhead. Every film Lynch wrote, makes sense. It's not even difficult. You just have to take the time to figure them out as they are puzzle films. However they are only puzzles to people who don't understand film. Film is the art of manipulating four elements; mise-en-scène (meaning everything the camera sees), cinematography, editing, and sound. He matches this with a deep understanding of film history, to include inspirations like Fellini, Bergman, and Wilder. He uses symbolism in the films mise-en-scène to illustrate their back stories, as he, like other great filmmakers, doesn't assume an idiotic viewership. Film is an art, and if you want to get it, study the fucking art. Inland Empire is abstract in the sense that he wrote it as he shot it in addition to connecting it to Rabbits. It is directly connected to the rest of his written work. Calling someone who clearly works much harder than you do to achieve his goals is laziness of the highest order. You should stick with color-paintings and movies by Michael Bay. If you're going to condemn a great film based on your bullshit feelings towards Transcendental Meditation, which is far from, far-out spiritualism considering that it's been practiced by many people; including Ellen, Scorsese, Seinfeld, The fucking Beatles, as well as many many others, who all use it as a form of clearing their minds to reach places of deeper creativity. Far fetched is Jesus having brass feet in the final chapters of the Christian bible, or Scientologists vacuuming aliens from your body. My advice to you is that if you're serious enough about an art-form to publicly embarrass yourself like Leon has here, you should just go to school and actually learn what the fuck your talking about instead. If you wouldn't go to a museum and judge paintings in front of other artists, don't judge an even more complicated art-form on the internet just because people can't call you an ass to your face.
Kenny Crater The Apostle John describes Jesus' feet as brass because in the Old Testament brass symbolizes judgement. Most of the book of Revelation can only be understood if one is well versed in the Old Testament.
1qwasz12 Who cares? The Christian Bible is a different piece of fiction, than Inland Empire. We're discussing film and film theory, not the validity of literary fiction written 3500 years ago and finalized by the rich to control poor people. That's a very different topic. :)
Kenny Crater You wrote good stuff in your first comment but "not the validity of literary fiction written 3500 years ago and finalized by the rich to control poor people" don't discredit yourself like that.
I don't know how much good it does to try and put someone like the guy you respond to 'in his place' by schooling him on the nuances of film art form analysis on a wave of invective. All this boils down to is you saying to some guy you don't know "You don't 'get' film. You're stupid. I am superior because I get film. I'm not stupid." That's just ego! If you *actually* wanted him to not think this stuff is pretentious, you'd probably not write an elitist diatribe reinforcing all of his (mis)-perceptions.
Before anything interesting in art there are always people with a rule book criticizing it based on their whether it fits into their narrow box. Art isn't about keeping everything in box. It's about trying to get out of the box.
Kevin Piastra: Comedian no, he's right in calling the film abstract as opposed to conventional narrative film (as was the context). obviously it is also surreal, but it doesn't use ordinary narrative techniques to create meaning, instead lynch uses his own visual language
There you have it folks he just admitted it, Inland empire like many of his other movies has no real meaning just a very loose plot with a whole lot of random, weird nonsense throughout with little to no conclusion at the end.
I tend to wonder the sanity of Lynch. is it any coincidence that he has far out ideas of spirituality? he's starting to resemble other supposed genuises whose eccentricism has gone so far as to make them completely unrealistic. he's like another Stockhausen, so far gone as to be completely removed from reality. it's a shame these unique minds are glorified rather than put to criticism. what exactly is the point of art if no one can relate to it, other than a handful of fanatics willing to pat him on the back no matter how incoherent his output may be. and also willing to try and justify such obscurity through meaningless interpretation of completely inconsistent films, of which Lynch himself won't even try to explain. isn't that pretentiousness at it's finest? creating art beyond realistic application?
Ever wonder if maybe all those people patting him on the back are doing so because they actually DO appreciate and relate to his work? And maybe you're just weird and bitter for thinking they're all phonies for liking something that you don't understand?
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The way he wrote his script is basically what identity crisis is. You get a lot of fragments of identity, but at some point you oversee them and by overseeing them you forget who you are. It is like you see yourself acting in your movie, My mind is blown by this movie!
Woah.. yeah. Nice explanation. Im a huge fan and watched IE while super high.. 10/10 recommend. You face with your/humanity's dark side along with it.. best movie ever made.
@@Dale_Blackburn just did that tonight
@@Dale_Blackburn thers no true enlightening experiences to be found through weed, its all a trick
This definitely feels like one of the most straightforward explanations david lynch has given regarding his creative process
The way David Lynch thinks about film is so different from any other filmmaker, he's on a completely different level, in a different dimension from us.
I love how he literally made it up as he went along and it still turned out to be a great movie
Matejko108 I think the best films he ever made are Eraserhead and Inland empire. I also think most of the short films he made are great, especially Rabbits. I love surrealism and Lost highway and mulholland drive are just not surreal enough for my taste
@@vanadis9790 agree completely; these people are sheep. They want movies made in the standard manner, they can't expand their horizons or think outside the box. There are things I experienced inside me watching Eraserhead and Inland Empire that Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive don't even come close to evoking in me... I mean they are not even in the same stratosphere. Talking about how Inland Empire "is incoherent & doesn't make any sense", you could level the same criticism at Picasso and dismiss his work as tripe: "What's it's meant to be, I can't even tell! Too damn incoherent; I prefer da Vinci!"
@@vanadis9790 Any other movie recommendations?
@@katelinmarie5360 Okay, I disagree with their assessment of inland empire too, but it's kind of dumb to stir up this narrative about them being "sheep" because their taste isnt as deep and surreal or whatever as yours.
@Matejko108 last year I decided to give David Lynch's films a chance. Of course I'd heard of the classics like Eraserhead and I absolutely fell in love with surrealism so I thought I'd see which films to watch and somebody on CZcams described IE as watching somebody's nightmare. That piece of perspective actually helped me a lot to digest the movie and then I went online to find theories and explanations and wow I'm really blown away. Lynch is like the Escher of cinema. You watch his movies and every time you think you've figured it out, it throws you off. He loops and twists his movies in a way so that all your theories are wrong and right at the same time. I realized surrealism is more about the feeling so it may not make sense or you may not put it into actual sentences but what you felt while experiencing the art will affect you. I know I did. I just felt so personally affected after watching IE and MD and it stayed in my head for weeks. Popular and "normal" movies don't do that and I'm not interested in mediocre.
I hope we get at least one more movie from this incredible man.
I don't see it happening but I really hope he does
This was by far the most mind-bending film I have ever seen. Imagine the next film he directs... I mean, he's been collecting ideas since 2006
lyricsfromsweden Twin Peaks reboot in 2016. He got a huge budget and an extension from 9 to 18 episodes. It'll be a masterpiece... Over 18 hours of brand new Lynch for us all to revel in
Yessir, slated to premiere in early 2017 now!
Nick Kitson It's too bad that it won't be released exactly 25 years after the final episode.
signoguns How is it HUGE?
18 hours of video is a lot.
David Lynch (in this film especially) and the late Abbas Kiarotsami have reached the top point of film art, no one yet overcome them since the 80s in my opinion, they're two of the most original filmmakers of all time, the world of cinema is just grateful for the both of them.
the plot isn't that hard to explain. Laura Dern is some sort of polish ghost. An actress is hired in los angeles, slowly she loses the ability to distinguish between the script and real life. Then there's about an hour of scary noises and people walking down hallways. Finally Laura describes pulling out a man's eye, and then everyone does a fun dance.
10/10
Simply put… it’s a David Lynch film!
He seems like such a cool guy. And he's a lot more open about his ideas than I expected, which is even better I think.
Just after getting caught up in the twin peaks 30 year anniversary, I had to come back to this film. I watch and rewatch DL films all the time, but this one has so many intricacies, and so much depth that it's always rewarding and insightful, no matter how many times it's viewed.
i Live in Lodz, Poland and it's a very inspiring post-apocalyptic city which I've also done many films about. inland empire is not my favourite film of Lynch but through it I feel a defenent connection
I think David Lynch is a great director! His films are so obscure and stays with you a few days after you watch them. Plus, there's a lot of ways you can understand it, and all of the motifs / symbolism.
The embodiment of freedom in yourself and your art
His films stick with you for a lifetime.
There are some many scenes in the movie to which i can relate. I must say that i am deeply terrified after watching the movie. I didn't understand all of scenes but i am sure every single scene relates to someone in the world and that's why i love Lynch.
He seems just as confused as we are. I love it.
Now I need to make a film about Lynch’s right hand
Inland Empire caused me to have a miscarriage and I'm a man.
You couldn't say that today.
@@romo2674 lmao his comment is fuckin ancient
@Scott Robinson What was that, Scott?
He can say that . The question is ,which "1" in "10" of us is going to take offense
This film was released in 2006. It's been a while between drinks, now.
The way he talks with his fingers. Gives me chills
Yes , there seems to be some part of his mind that's exposed in a different way than other people. It's like when you wake and there's those moments before you become fully conscious, and you wiggle your toes! Like electrons fully firing...hmm
I imagine David trying to explain his process like this...since his first thought of films was a paining that moved (ie: motion picture) the way he paints is just too surreal for some people. You see I had an idea to put a streak of red over here then I thought of a blue dot and did that etc. and everyone is asking but why was the dot blue? and David says well it was blue in my mind so that is how I translated it and then everyone stares at him like he is weird when that method makes perfect sense to me too.
He's calling the Sony PD150 a toy camera. Well, in 2015 you maybe could call it that.
That's probably what he calls every little camera you dont need to load film into. I havent touched one since 2005 but even then they weren't good for anything other than documentary style.
I love his process
Inland Empire is my absolute fav Lynch film. Second is Fire Walk With Me, and Eraserhead. Oh! And The Straight Story.
Mullholland Dr is the best
He doesn't really even know the plot of his own creations such a genius at improvisation and a great innovator we can all get our own depiction of the films narrative
I used to hate this film until I figured out what it was about.
In the late 19th century/early 20th century, The Phantom and the Lost Girl were an item. The Phantom was a physically and mentally abusive husband which resulted in the Lost Girl seeking refuge in the arms of a lover. Her lover, however, was also married and had a son. When the Phantom (who is shown to have mystical powers that stem from an old Polish Gypsy curse) learns of this, he hypnotizes the lover’s wife into killing him and then herself with a screwdriver. He then banishes the Lost Girl to Limbo (symbolized by the hotel room we see her in at the beginning) and forces her to watch the story of her life unfold and the pain her infidelity caused him. He also curses the Lost Girl’s lover into reincarnating time and again in the role of a husband being betrayed by his wife so he can feel what the Phantom felt. The lover’s latest reincarnation sees him in the role of Laura Dern’s abusive Polish husband.
It is mentioned that the film is cursed which may play into the mystical powers that the Phantom has. So when Nikki cheats on her husband with Devon, the husband has to experience the pain of his wife’s infidelity again, and then Nikki gets sucked into the world of the film and the story plays out as it does.
The Rabbits are a supernatural force that seem to want to stop the Phantom and do so at the end by providing Nikki with a gun to kill the Phantom at the end.
When the Phantom dies, the Lost Girl is freed from her imprisonment in Limbo/the hotel room and returns to the arms of her lover (now reincarnated as Nikki’s Polish husband) who is also freed from the curse and they’re both able to live together with their son.
There is definitely the whole film within a film going on but the constant cutaways to old Poland in which we learn about the Phantom and the Lost Girl reaffirm my belief that this is a film ultimately about reincarnation and being trapped in a never ending loop until outside forces intervene.
Just my two cents. :)
For me, this movie is a medley of different styles and technicals that David wanted to experiment. Beautiful effects, beautiful soundtrack, beautiful actors, but nothing is really linked. He shot separates scenes and stuck them together, like a puzzle. We can always find theories but I'm not sure that it was the purpose here.
Very intriging and interesting in many ways, but good luck for watching the 3 hours in one round! I couldn't...
Wrong
💘 david lynch!! Everything he does!
"...the script is haunted........."
HIS HAND
Thank you for posting this, I forgot this is David Lynch and I should stop looking for sense in his creations.
there's a sense ;)
The structure of this response:
"Normally, you...
..., but we..."
awesome hair, so talented; hate him.
Watched the movie yesterday and I think it's great, but I think you really have to be into the way Lynch directs film and the typical vibe he is often going for to enjoy it since it's really incrompehensible at times. It's not like Mulholland Drive which you can show to people who haven't seen a Lynch film before, since you can still make sense of it and trying to decipher its meaning. Inland Empire is for Lynch fans but not for people who just have started to get into surrealist cinema.
Yes. The hand.
@chest002
There was no sense of hope or relief in the beautiful final sequence (not including the end credits)?
whoah
Half a Decade later... Lynch is still trying to catch those ideas ^^
@BTinHD I have seen three David Lynch films: "The Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and have significantly mixed feelings regarding the last two, I'm essentially speechless - since I know there's substance and craftsmanship in Lynch's work - of which possesses very interesting aesthetically abstract ideas regarding the human condition. What film of Lynch's body of work I haven't seen do you recommend to an aspiring filmmaker who loves auteurs like Kubrick and Scorsese?
If you like kubrick, try eraserhead, it was his favorite film.
Talk to the hand.
hehe
I liked his answer to the last question. ;)
i actually work it out the same way David does. Only difference is, he is better and successful :3
He found a way to somehow merge his segments together and finishing it at some point.
@Desarollo26 BTW, I am a huge David Lynch and TM fan. Flashes of light in the dark is visual contrast, I agree. The contrast I am referring to is the story line. If the plot were just glimpses of light, then it was overshadowed by lots of darkness. Placing more lighted ideas would have gave the viewer some time to rebound, thinking everything is OK now. Like Twin Peaks. One minute you are laughing, and the next minute freeking out. For me Inland Empire wasn't Lynch at his best. Sorry David.
It begins to make sense now - a streaming thought stream of consciousness poem edited, makes da movie. Makes sense. Yeah fassbinder did that and Herzog. A few others I can't think of on the spot. And like 1Kerouac 2Burroughs and 3Ginsberg - 1raw thought, 2everything permitted, and 3the edit. It's a good formula for poetry.
so it's not a film, it's a loooong loooong music video ?
What is the city in Poland he's talking about ? I can't find it.... I hear Wooge...
Łódź. He’s saying it correctly, the way the Polish do, but this is how you spell it.
by the way. 4:30 - 4:47 i admire that point of view and he's absolutely right!
the HAND....
I came here cause I was really annoyed at the fact, that at the beginning of the movie, I predicted that the movie was going to end with the main character finding out that she’s inside this cursed loop in which she was destined to kill herself over and over again, sort of like the Sisyphus myth. I thought I missed something when the movie stoped making sense in a linear way, so I was wondering if I missed something. It gives me peace of mind to find out that the movie actually was intended to make no sense. I’m still a little annoyed by that.
Inland Empire is essentially a representation of psychoanalysis. The real, imaginary , symbolic. If you understand these concepts you will understand all Lynch's films.
Lol you don’t so don’t pretend
The best film ever made!
@JesusCristo2002 watch eraserhead , a trip in the subconscient.This movie hurt me.Lots of things to said on this film, but my english is not very good.
What´s up with his right hand? moving it in that nervous way....
Doctor David Lynch!!!
DEAL WITH XAN!!!
I want to see Justin theroux
Watch Eraserhead, this is your final test.
Or maybe Twin Peaks, the show.
Oh, there's a thing, all right.
I want to be David Lynch when I grow up.
All the comments here are wrong. Because I said so!! CUT
I wish I was this creative. I’ve never created anything in my life.
You created this comment. And boy was it depressing hehe
@@monolithgeometry3221 this made me wheeze
go create bro
I didn't follow a word of that. But I liked Inland Empire, so never mind.
We win. What’s up with that?
Hello, i am a 14 year old film maker from London. I write & direct low budget short films with a friend of mine, and our biggest inspiration is David Lynch. we want our films to be surreal and strange. i would really appreciate it if you could look at our youtube channel and give me some feedback about our films, thanks.
Our first film, 'Oneirology' was shown in the london 'under the arch' short film festival last september.
I watched this movie on acid
"The world is as you are." - David Lynch
"Come as you are, as you were." - Kurt Cobain
“The observer is the observed.”-Jidduh Krishnamurti
To add contrast to Inland Empire, I would have offered a sense of hope or releif. This would have been a platform to shift unknowingly back to abstract better provoking the viewer. I am all for abstract. However if you are going to paint a portrait, you have to be able to sort the light from the dark. This movie was indeed abstract, but starts dark, and regresses darker. Mullholand Dr was great because of the use of contrasting ideas. It clicked. David dropped the ball on Inland Empire.
stanley kubrick was almost the same
Disturbing hand's gesture
Lynch says he starts with ideas which goes down a path, and it dictates the direction of the movie, ruling out choices that might change the direction. With Inland Impire, the ideas were indeed abstract, but lacked contrast. The movie starts with a mind fuk, and stays on a narrow hopeless path. This is not a new concept for David. I found the over use of senseless dialogue, murder, blood and guts tiring after 3 hrs. The glimmer of hope was missing from this idea. To be continued.
Lynch's finger waving during speaking is really a weird habit
(. . .)
I have a habit like that. It's very annoying.
Yes, but everything else about him is normal.
Finger movement like that to me says his mind is very open
I am responding, although a traditional reply isn't possible, to Leon Herpergers 8 month ago statement, which is the essence of laziness in cinematic analysis. He says; I tend to wonder the sanity of Lynch. is it any coincidence that he has far out ideas of spirituality? he's starting to resemble other supposed genuises whose eccentricism has gone so far as to make them completely unrealistic. he's like another Stockhausen, so far gone as to be completely removed from reality. it's a shame these unique minds are glorified rather than put to criticism. what exactly is the point of art if no one can relate to it, other than a handful of fanatics willing to pat him on the back no matter how incoherent his output may be. and also willing to try and justify such obscurity through meaningless interpretation of completely inconsistent films, of which Lynch himself won't even try to explain. isn't that pretentiousness at it's finest? creating art beyond realistic application?
Lynch explains his films, through the medium of film formalistic and symbolism. Lynch who went to art-school before AFI and understood symbolism and meaning to a degree most people don't even know exists prior to making Eraserhead. Every film Lynch wrote, makes sense. It's not even difficult. You just have to take the time to figure them out as they are puzzle films. However they are only puzzles to people who don't understand film. Film is the art of manipulating four elements; mise-en-scène (meaning everything the camera sees), cinematography, editing, and sound. He matches this with a deep understanding of film history, to include inspirations like Fellini, Bergman, and Wilder. He uses symbolism in the films mise-en-scène to illustrate their back stories, as he, like other great filmmakers, doesn't assume an idiotic viewership.
Film is an art, and if you want to get it, study the fucking art.
Inland Empire is abstract in the sense that he wrote it as he shot it in addition to connecting it to Rabbits. It is directly connected to the rest of his written work. Calling someone who clearly works much harder than you do to achieve his goals is laziness of the highest order. You should stick with color-paintings and movies by Michael Bay. If you're going to condemn a great film based on your bullshit feelings towards Transcendental Meditation, which is far from, far-out spiritualism considering that it's been practiced by many people; including Ellen, Scorsese, Seinfeld, The fucking Beatles, as well as many many others, who all use it as a form of clearing their minds to reach places of deeper creativity. Far fetched is Jesus having brass feet in the final chapters of the Christian bible, or Scientologists vacuuming aliens from your body. My advice to you is that if you're serious enough about an art-form to publicly embarrass yourself like Leon has here, you should just go to school and actually learn what the fuck your talking about instead. If you wouldn't go to a museum and judge paintings in front of other artists, don't judge an even more complicated art-form on the internet just because people can't call you an ass to your face.
Kenny Crater The Apostle John describes Jesus' feet as brass because in the Old Testament brass symbolizes judgement. Most of the book of Revelation can only be understood if one is well versed in the Old Testament.
1qwasz12 Who cares? The Christian Bible is a different piece of fiction, than Inland Empire. We're discussing film and film theory, not the validity of literary fiction written 3500 years ago and finalized by the rich to control poor people. That's a very different topic. :)
Kenny Crater You wrote good stuff in your first comment but "not the validity of literary fiction written 3500 years ago and finalized by the rich to control poor people" don't discredit yourself like that.
I don't know how much good it does to try and put someone like the guy you respond to 'in his place' by schooling him on the nuances of film art form analysis on a wave of invective. All this boils down to is you saying to some guy you don't know "You don't 'get' film. You're stupid. I am superior because I get film. I'm not stupid." That's just ego! If you *actually* wanted him to not think this stuff is pretentious, you'd probably not write an elitist diatribe reinforcing all of his (mis)-perceptions.
Before anything interesting in art there are always people with a rule book criticizing it based on their whether it fits into their narrow box.
Art isn't about keeping everything in box.
It's about trying to get out of the box.
He says "abstract" but I think he really mostly means "surreal". There's a difference.
Kevin Piastra: Comedian no, he's right in calling the film abstract as opposed to conventional narrative film (as was the context). obviously it is also surreal, but it doesn't use ordinary narrative techniques to create meaning, instead lynch uses his own visual language
+Anton Resident douchebag
Short version answer: "I was on meth mostly when I did this film."
to much fucking acid :(
Meditation*
no, david lynch. no.
@JesusCristo2002 Stop watching Lynch please, if you liked elephant man but had mixed feelings regarding BV and MD, then you're not made for Lynch.
There you have it folks he just admitted it, Inland empire like many of his other movies has no real meaning just a very loose plot with a whole lot of random, weird nonsense throughout with little to no conclusion at the end.
I tend to wonder the sanity of Lynch. is it any coincidence that he has far out ideas of spirituality? he's starting to resemble other supposed genuises whose eccentricism has gone so far as to make them completely unrealistic. he's like another Stockhausen, so far gone as to be completely removed from reality. it's a shame these unique minds are glorified rather than put to criticism. what exactly is the point of art if no one can relate to it, other than a handful of fanatics willing to pat him on the back no matter how incoherent his output may be. and also willing to try and justify such obscurity through meaningless interpretation of completely inconsistent films, of which Lynch himself won't even try to explain. isn't that pretentiousness at it's finest? creating art beyond realistic application?
I find his art entirely relatable, not on a surface level always, but on an emotional and thematic one
Ever wonder if maybe all those people patting him on the back are doing so because they actually DO appreciate and relate to his work? And maybe you're just weird and bitter for thinking they're all phonies for liking something that you don't understand?
Sometimes it's hard not to sound elitist or bad mannered, and this is one.
You're stupid, with all due respect
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man
So people should just criticize every truly creative artist? That would be super lame.
dont go