My brain is now mush.
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:13 am
Hello! Just joined. I thought to start with I'd post my thoughts on IE (cross posted from one of my blog entries from a week ago);
Today, I saw INLAND EMPIRE. If you were to ask me what the movie was about, I could not tell you. I sat through a three hour film, and by the end of it, I had not a clue what it was I had just seen. I just felt deflated, and in a complete sense of unease.
I mean, I love David Lynch. I adore the chap. I bow down and worship the ground upon which he walks. But this... this... I just could not get on with it. It had lost me within a half hour of it starting. I found I didn't give a monkey's for any of the characters, so I didn't care what was happening to them.
Now, weird things go on in Lynch films all the time, and damn fine it it too, but in all there does appear to be - even if you can't quite put your finger on it, or even quite understand it - some kind of internal logic to it all; here it just seems to be a mish mash of scenes, bearing little relation to eachother, with scant pay off.
In vast swathes of the film, it doesn't even feel like Lycnh. Normally there's a sense of Lynch going through it all, like words through a stick of rock. But here this seems lacking. And the picture occasionally looks, frankly, awful; sometimes you see the line structure of the DV - this has tobe an intentional thing, but it just looks rubbish (it's not always present). Some of it looks like home movie footage, also.
The wife just said to me upon seeing me type this post; "you have put at the start of this that there may be spoilers...?"... Oh, if only; that would mean I'd have a clue what was going on...!
I absolutely hate to slate a Lynch movie, but frankly I think it's going to take a heck of a lot of determination for me to pluck up the strength and will power to watch it again. I found myself sighing and groaning in places, and I just couldn't get on with the film at all.
And that really depresses me.