Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Inland Empire

Inland Empire.... wow. I don't know how to describe this one so I'll just cut and paste the plot outline from IMDB:

A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy.
This is by far the most confusing and yet interesting film for any lynch fan to see. Weirder than Blue Velvet, more confusing than Mulholland Drive. Yes basically David Lynch pulls together a bunch of side projects (including the shorts "rabbits") and pulls off making a 3 hour film.
Hard to follow? Yes.
But for some reason you keep watching not knowing what the hell is going to happen next. The furthest thing from predictible imaginable.
Want to twist your brain around and around?
Go Buy Inland Empire. It's on sale right now at Best Buy for 17.99.
Boom!
I'm a Lynch fan since the days of Twin Peaks so I give this one a 7/10. If it made sense to the majority of people it would have scored higher.

**Update**

This Synopsis seems better to me-
A wealthy debutante finds herself, inadvertently and without her accord, by way of an ancient Eastern European witch's magic curse, in a movie about a girl in the movies ... and yet trying to get out -- all while living two lives, per rules of David Lynchian reality paradigms: one as a nobody in suburban America, possibly a part-time prostitute, just trying to get by; and one as a nobody in Eastern Europe, again possibly a prostitute (and all the while watching some strange sit-com / soap-opera / talk-show about rabbits, or humanoid-rabbits, with an awful, chilling laugh track), just trying to get by -- until she later discovers that we are all in the movies, and that Hollywood is indeed the end of the Yellow Brick Rode, and that the laugh track that we hear is all in our minds; and that at the same time there is the Sinister and Evil aspect behind the whole drama being the knowledge now gained: that everyone is a prostitute in some weird way, just trying to get by.

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