Midnight viewing! Exactly. But why such a weird time to watch a movie. It reminds me when I first watched Twilight Zone the Movie and it played late nite on tv- and it felt like I was watching sthing Alien. Check this out, pls. Thanks. 👉🏻 th-cam.com/video/Nyz9qtAPCFA/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, the first time I saw it, my brain hurt big time, had no idea what I've just seen, but I knew I had to see it again, it was so great. Took me like 10 viewings to understand it fully.
Mark Kermode has actually explained the plot perfectly there. It's so simple, there's nothing else to get. A cursed story which spans generations, everybody getting involved in it gets lost in darkness and confusion. That's all there is to get. If you think you understand Inland Empire, you don't understand Inland Empire. The whole idea is that the curse is to lose yourself and get lost in a maze of confusion. If you understood, it wouldn't have done it's job. The terror is in the confusion.
Few seem to be aware that Lynch used a bad camera on purpose. He could easily afford a better digital camera and still enjoy the same freedom. Camera operator Ole Johan Roska (who is also the Norwegian cam. op. in the actual movie) explained this in an interview. Lynch thought the ugliness of a low quality camera image enhanced what he as going for. He was also partially inspired by the Dogme 95 movement.
I always wonder why some people insist on complaining about the image quality of IEmpire. I immediately got the otherworldly image he was trying to portray. If you’re still here, check this out. My image is bad- that’s not on purpose but it does accidentally emulates the weirdness of Lynch’s movies 👉🏻 th-cam.com/video/Nyz9qtAPCFA/w-d-xo.html
I definitely feel worse camera quality adds more realism and creepiness. Like Tetsuo is shot black and white low quality camera but it makes it adds to the atmosphere
i think it was mainly used for convenience tbh, digital = endless retakes and no finite supply of film as well as being more consistent in picture, often 2 prints of the same film can look totally different
I think it's been a while since this guy actually saw Lost Highway. Fred turns into another character while waiting in a cell on death row, not by going into a dark corner in his bedroom. The "darkness" he says Laura Dern goes into in this film would be more helpfully described as a "film set." It's the set of the home Dern's character lives in.
Sick of this film being called pretentious. and also me being called pretentious for liking it. It strikes a chord with me like any artform does to anyone. Lynch is up there with Kubrick for me already and have only seen 3 of his films.
You know its a masterpiece when the audience is split 50/50. half love half hate it. Some of us are tuned into the music which a large amount of people just can't seem to hear.
Inland Empire is MORE than a film, it is essentially a film in the same way we view what we call reality, the way Lynch handels space and time and its geometries is magnificent, it's my favorite film ever.
@@davidperez5089 There are many memorable moments but I think my favorite is when the realities merge at the end when the Laura Dern character meet the Lost Girl with the music in the background.
I really like this film, but i think Kermode is absolutely right. If you do not like David Lynch films, you will despise it. Laura Dern should have one the best actress oscar.
Zappa once said you can't really talk or write about music, or words to that effect. I believe the same to be true of this film (I'm English, we say film). Talking, reviewing, analysing, anything other than just watching this piece of genius is totally pointless. It just is a weird, mind-bending and totally incredible experience to sit there and watch Inland Empire. Anything that has you questioning whether someone has slipped something naughty into your tea when you weren't looking deserves attention (in my book), but this work of art is something else. I watch it several times a year. It is SUPERB.
It is an experience, yes, but I always like to read other people's interpretations once I have formed my own. It's like seeing a whole new story sometimes. Unfortunately, in case of Inland Empire, most of them boiled down to some superficial things: she's in an afterlife watching her own life and letting go, or Sue is her reality, so she copes by imagining being Nikki, etc. It seemed stupid to me, so I recorded my own interpretation and analysis, because I interpreted it much more deeply. The point is, talking about it can give us a whole new insight into something we've already seen, for better or for worse, which is why I'm all for it.
My favorite Lynch film, by far his best (I think) I don´t feel like it´s hard to see. Either every second of it is pure pleasure or you´re not getting it.
This is certainly an interesting film. I like Kermode's introduction to the audio clip, because yes, that's really the only semblance of the plot given through dialogue. This is absolutely like having a glimpse into Lynch's mind. He gives some explanation for that in how he filmed it. Lynch had an idea, then filmed it. Later, the pieces were "put together". I personally love how well Lynch captures the feeling of a dream in his movies, though I absolutely understand why not everyone would like his films.
There are pretentious artsy movies that are a waste of time, Inland Empire is not one of them. This is possibly the best film he's done, unless he has another one in the works. Not for everyone obviously, but what a boring world if all films pleased all people.
it's funny how divisive this film is, even for Lunch fans. I absolutely love it and consider it his masterpiece and one of my favorite films. I watch it at least once a year. But it's just not for everyone.
I've seen it maybe 6 times. Most recently in a cinema for the first time. This is more of a "Motion Picture" than a "Movie". Right? It's art, open to the viewer feeling what they might. An esoteric work of staggering genius. Most people would think it garbage; it's just not meant for them. Don't worry, I like Fast and Furious too!! LOL
Not my favourite Lynch film but I've probably seen it more often than any of his other movies. I really like it but it's so hard to get people to sit down and watch it =/
I always wondered what Meryl Streep or Daniel Day Lewis would dream about if in a coma. All those characters they became, coming together and ripping apart. This movie might give you a taste of that. It's a really challenging film. Need more of those. Much more of those.
good for you mark kermode. it takes a brave person to sit through this and even braver one to say they liked this movie. mayo's responses during this review are the usual close-minded responses one is used to seeing in people who live their lives asleep. lynch addresses those curious minds who know and understand that underneath our seemingly linear 'realities' lie something ore obscure and complex. and THAT is what makes life so exciting.
Haven't seen it yet. And it's been a while since I saw Lost Highway. I just rewatched Mulholland Drive, and realized that I'd forgotten the bulk of it. Sounds like a great movie night! I am a hard core Lynch fan.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. I understood very little of this film after the first 20 minutes, but it affected me on a subliminal level, that's for sure
In regards to that comment about having to be asleep to get it, I can tell you from experience that's not the case. I liked it but I started it way too late at night and passed out half way through (I'm not a night owl BTW). The only thing I remember after going down was her on Hollywood Blvd. I still liked the portion of the movie I've seen though.
Mark, you're great! Thank you for voicing this opinion and for pointing out how boring normal Hollywood films are, and one more thing, I am one of the people that know exactly what you're talking about :)
It is his best (most precise) film in my opinion. Hypnosis is the recurring theme here. There are a lot of important details that you can mistake for imperfections due to the video quality. One cue is the scene of misunderstanding between the director and Bucky J played by Lynch. There is a squeal of the door as the old witch enters the house and says hello. A bird flies right above as Nikki enters the studios. And so on and so on. BTW I hated it the first time I saw it.
One of the clearest explanations I've ever heard of Inland Empire lol. If you have never seen a David Lynch film watch his other 8 films before Lost Highway and Inland Empire and it'll make a little bit more sense.
I would put this at #1 on my list of "Movies liked by insufferable bores who think raving about their niche interests is a substitute for having a personality."
@@Nathan-gd7xq ha! Because nothing says "having a personality" like dropping into a 3-year-old comment to insult someone you don't know for liking something you don't like. You must absolutely ooze personality.
There kind of is. Mulholland Drive ranked 28th on Sight and Sounds 2012 Critics List of top 250 films of all time. Blue Velvet was somewhere in the top 100 and Eraserhead was around 130.
someone said rabbits was about a triple rape rape murder by "the guy in the green coat". which brings the three rabbits to purgatory and i want someone's opinion on the 42 minute art film. because i too heard the dialog that pointed to this
I have never felt Lost Highway "difficult". It's more straight forward than Wild at Heart. Fred steals Pete's body. The Mystery Man tells Fred that in the far east, a murderer is left to wander alone for maybe a long time. But the malcontent will receive a bullet in the head eventually. Just before the credits roll, we see Fred's face blurring and funking out as the police follow him. It's time to assume another body. This will happen indefinitely until the man from the far east puts a bullet in his head.
This is the only David Lynch film where I can't make sense of it at all. Maybe there is more to it than I'm seeing but it just seems mostly like shallow experimentation. It's really beautiful though and Laura Dern is great in it.
I thought the first half of the film was great, but it goes completely off the rails in the second half. It’s very bizarre and more abstract than most of Lynch’s other films. I need to watch it again; every time I rewatch a David Lynch film, it becomes better to me, IDK why.
Although Mulholland Drive might be my favorite movie of his I can't say I think Sight and Sounds 2012 Critics List is that much of an authority on the subject. The critical community is one thing, Lynch fans and movie fans in general is another. Besides, I don't know how accurate that list even represents the consensus of the critical community. Eraserhead and Blue velvet both have significantly higher ratings on Rotten Tomatoes than MD.
Its possible, I can understand the burning hatred some people have for it as its mostly inaccessible but when I watch it I am captivated by its screen presence, I have seen an awful lot of film but not a single one to memory leaves such as lasting impression, job done I say!
Ged Rooney yeah for me the interest comes in all those different thoughts and concepts in your head. Like Kermode said, films like Ghostrider you know exactly how its going to end. Most films are like that, and even if they do have a twist its not too interesting. Want a film that will be genuinely captivating? watch anything by Lynch
Such a late comment here, especially late just to frickin nitpick (this is much less a criticism I want to point out, rather just one thing, actually the only thing (haha) remotely 'wrong' with this entire commentary on Inland Empire - the nitpick isn't even related to IE). Laura Palmer was never technically possessed by the demon Bob, or maybe Beelzebub depending on which way a person may want to think about the character or again, and of course, think any other possible way about 'Bob' given that we're talking about Twin Peaks here. He certainly was close to full-on possessing Laura, though, and I suppose it could even be argued, that indeed she was possessed by Bob, but momentarily, while under the fan in the famous scene from Fire Walk With Me. Also, last thing, I may have just slightly and innocently misinterpreted the way you meant the point in relation to IE to begin with, not so much even taking into consideration my belaboring the point in the first place. Apologies if that is the case. Real reason I prattle on here is because it's an interesting and nuanced question as to whether or not Laura was ever fully possessed, or at some point (i.e. in FWWM) temporarily and partially possessed by a demon, 'Bob,' as he is called in TP - So my nitpicking the detail, if anything, was actually what made me think about something I'd never properly considered before, so thank you doubly for that. Lots of really worthwhile interconnections and subtleties regarding IE and Lynch's film-making in general here. As is somewhat rare on TH-cam, this was time very well spent :) Thanks for uploading your dialogue here! Not sure why I hadn't come across it before, but I genuinely enjoy the work you did here. Subbed.
It's a grower. The first time around, I enjoyed the film a lot until the second half, which just seemed to ramble nowhere at all and completely lost me. The second time round, I loved it, but it's a very slow and very long film that's best not watched all at once in one sitting. It's a better film than Lost Highway, but not as good as Wild at Heart, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive or Fire Walk with Me.
Inland Empire was great. I love the story with the extreme Lynch injection. The only thing I hated about it was the camera that he used, the image quality was horrible. I wished he had a much bigger budget to work with, then it would have been acknowledged as an instant masterpiece like Mulholland Dr.
Started watching this last night. Love David Lynch, but had to give up and go to bed. It was good to start with, then became hard work. Liked the rabbits bits but found it too odd and fragmented. That's not to say it's bad.
To this date the scariest movie experience I've ever had. I started watching it in the middle of the night, and kept falling asleep during, only to be woken up from time to time by warped images, and industrial screamlike noises blasting from the speakers. The end result was that when the movie was finished I was unable to sleep for the next 4 hours because of the trauma. I love everything else that I've seen by David Lynch, but frankly speaking I never ever want to revisit the Inland Empire experience.
Most viewers--even those who are supportive of the film--don't seem to have discovered the "key" to "unlocking" the perplexing structure of the film. In order to more accurately and fully perceive what you're witnessing you must first adjust your awareness--reposition your consciousness--whereby the fractured, seemingly random and irrational torrent of hysterical cinematic melodrama realigns and joins in your mind into a much more coherent and linear narrative. Lynch has provided some appropriately oblique clues, hints, and instructions at the very beginning of the film--delivered through the baffling dialog of the various foreign characters--for how to gain "passage" through the ingeniously concealed pinhole "entrance" into the "inner" real film. That all sounds presumptuous and pretentious, but trust me, it's more than worth the effort to find your way "in." There's a profoundly lucid and rational film awaiting you when you manage to penetrate INLAND EMPIRE's formidable exterior defenses and there encounter a most thrilling and visceral experience. It's perhaps the most profoundly intense film I've ever experience, ever. The best advice I can offer anyone sincerely seeking "entry" is to keep in mind Lynch's longtime practice of Transcendental Meditation which, it turns out, is essentially the mode of consciousness which one must be in in order to absorb and process the otherwise ineffable chaos on screen into an infinitely more clear and cogent cinematic experience. The truly remarkable aspect of this unusual cognitive process is that the film then seems to be occurring more so in your own mind, parallel to what's occurring on screen, and therefore you experience the film as though it's somehow being delivered directly it into your consciousness. Once you properly "position" your awareness as per Lynch's early instructions you find that you're able to actively unravel the continuous stream of individual discrete mysteries and riddles, in real time, and to much more closely follow along the hectically ricocheting time sequence without being utterly dismayed. Rather than being violently battered about by an impossibly disrupted narrative you'll instead be transported along the intricately constructed roller coaster of Inland Empire's cinematic artistry, soaring, swooping and creeping through the vast caverns, ornate galleries and intimate cupboards of Lynch's archly Gothic mind. It's a helluva ride. Ultimately we arrive at an impressively profound insight into the nature of our frightfully disturbing media saturated culture, and at the moment of encountering this revelatory insight it's almost as though Lynch is right there with us, encountering it for the first time, alongside us, together. It's a sublimely transcendent and unprecedented pleasure to be so intimately connected to an artist through the process of his creative method, and everyone deserves to experience and enjoy this rare magic for themselves, but you must first make the initial effort to understand what David Lynch is asking of us in the way of expanding our consciousness. Good Luck.
why does no one understand simon's sense of humor? im pretty sure even though he's genuinely confused he's just messing around with the sarcastic monotone
Kermode is confused quite easily it seems. Right after claiming Inland Empire is confusing he refers to a scene in Lost Highway that doesn't actually happen. Bill Pullman's character goes to jail and turns into someone else. It doesn't happen in the "darkness" in his room. For fuck sake you're reviewing a film. Get ti right.
Pretension has nothing to do with coherence (or perceived lack thereof) it has to do with 1) someone believing they are cleverer than you - and acting on that belief. 2) someone believing they exist fluently within a cultural etiquette to which you could never aspire. You only have to watch ANY interview with DL to see the man has neither of these qualities. - yw :)
He should've said "I'm a moron who can't grasp that art sometimes is meant to be felt instead of understood, and since I can't understand it, it must mean that it is bad!"
Some people don't recognise food unless it's served up on a plate.
That's one of the best ways to put it. I'm so using that
No, some people are just left *utterly* cold by his films. Like me. It doesn’t mean we’re stupid
@@greglynch391 That's true. Some folks dislike his films for other reasons, many legimate!
Or maybe the film is just shit
@@DumpzterfireGaming It's always a possibility!
Kermode's spot on with his Fire Walk With Me comment, amazing film.
Inland Empire was an interesting experience, a great film for midnight viewing....
what makes you say that, please no spoilers haha
Midnight viewing! Exactly. But why such a weird time to watch a movie. It reminds me when I first watched Twilight Zone the Movie and it played late nite on tv- and it felt like I was watching sthing Alien. Check this out, pls. Thanks.
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Inland Empire is a surreal art form. It takes you through time and space.... in someone elses reality. You just watch it...It's amazing.
Yeah, the first time I saw it, my brain hurt big time, had no idea what I've just seen, but I knew I had to see it again, it was so great.
Took me like 10 viewings to understand it fully.
Ulysses is to Finnegan's Wake as Mulholland Drive is to Inland Empire.
I haven't read Joyce but I understand, and possibly agree.
woah, yess
What a great analogy.
I always thought this
Perfect analogy
Mark Kermode has actually explained the plot perfectly there. It's so simple, there's nothing else to get. A cursed story which spans generations, everybody getting involved in it gets lost in darkness and confusion. That's all there is to get. If you think you understand Inland Empire, you don't understand Inland Empire. The whole idea is that the curse is to lose yourself and get lost in a maze of confusion. If you understood, it wouldn't have done it's job. The terror is in the confusion.
Shut up liberal
Few seem to be aware that Lynch used a bad camera on purpose. He could easily afford a better digital camera and still enjoy the same freedom.
Camera operator Ole Johan Roska (who is also the Norwegian cam. op. in the actual movie) explained this in an interview. Lynch thought the ugliness of a low quality camera image enhanced what he as going for. He was also partially inspired by the Dogme 95 movement.
I always wonder why some people insist on complaining about the image quality of IEmpire. I immediately got the otherworldly image he was trying to portray. If you’re still here, check this out. My image is bad- that’s not on purpose but it does accidentally emulates the weirdness of Lynch’s movies
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I definitely feel worse camera quality adds more realism and creepiness. Like Tetsuo is shot black and white low quality camera but it makes it adds to the atmosphere
I do think it’s funny that now he thinks it looks bad and used an AI upscaling method to make the footage look nicer.
i think it was mainly used for convenience tbh, digital = endless retakes and no finite supply of film as well as being more consistent in picture, often 2 prints of the same film can look totally different
Somehow I never made the connection between Inland Empire and dogme-95, that seems so obvious now
I think it's been a while since this guy actually saw Lost Highway. Fred turns into another character while waiting in a cell on death row, not by going into a dark corner in his bedroom. The "darkness" he says Laura Dern goes into in this film would be more helpfully described as a "film set." It's the set of the home Dern's character lives in.
Sick of this film being called pretentious. and also me being called pretentious for liking it. It strikes a chord with me like any artform does to anyone. Lynch is up there with Kubrick for me already and have only seen 3 of his films.
I agree. I think the film is great.
You know its a masterpiece when the audience is split 50/50. half love half hate it.
Some of us are tuned into the music which a large amount of people just can't seem to hear.
Definitely.
Kubrick is probably the best filmmaker ever. He saw what the art form could do if it was pushed and he pushed it.
R. M Not *every* Kubrick film is a masterpiece, but I generally agree.
Inland Empire is MORE than a film, it is essentially a film in the same way we view what we call reality, the way Lynch handels space and time and its geometries is magnificent, it's my favorite film ever.
Love the abstract and DL. Favorite scene? Mine Is the ketchup part.
Yes it is more than a stupid film, it is also a pile of pretentious boring garbage 🤦♂️😅
@@davidperez5089 "abstract.."🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
@@davidperez5089 There are many memorable moments but I think my favorite is when the realities merge at the end when the Laura Dern character meet the Lost Girl with the music in the background.
Still one of the greatest films I have ever seen, I hope he gets back into cinema again soon.
I agree!
His greatest work if you ask me. Even though it's not for everyone.
@@liamcairns5503 what?
Same, it blew my mind.
good news for you, it has been remastered and is back at the cinema
One of my favourite cinema experiences of my life.
I really like this film, but i think Kermode is absolutely right. If you do not like David Lynch films, you will despise it. Laura Dern should have one the best actress oscar.
Zappa once said you can't really talk or write about music, or words to that effect. I believe the same to be true of this film (I'm English, we say film). Talking, reviewing, analysing, anything other than just watching this piece of genius is totally pointless. It just is a weird, mind-bending and totally incredible experience to sit there and watch Inland Empire. Anything that has you questioning whether someone has slipped something naughty into your tea when you weren't looking deserves attention (in my book), but this work of art is something else. I watch it several times a year. It is SUPERB.
It is an experience, yes, but I always like to read other people's interpretations once I have formed my own. It's like seeing a whole new story sometimes.
Unfortunately, in case of Inland Empire, most of them boiled down to some superficial things: she's in an afterlife watching her own life and letting go, or Sue is her reality, so she copes by imagining being Nikki, etc. It seemed stupid to me, so I recorded my own interpretation and analysis, because I interpreted it much more deeply.
The point is, talking about it can give us a whole new insight into something we've already seen, for better or for worse, which is why I'm all for it.
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is the quote I heard….Inland Empire seems to require a story that the viewer supplies.
RIP frank zappa
My favorite Lynch film, by far his best (I think) I don´t feel like it´s hard to see. Either every second of it is pure pleasure or you´re not getting it.
This is certainly an interesting film. I like Kermode's introduction to the audio clip, because yes, that's really the only semblance of the plot given through dialogue. This is absolutely like having a glimpse into Lynch's mind. He gives some explanation for that in how he filmed it. Lynch had an idea, then filmed it. Later, the pieces were "put together". I personally love how well Lynch captures the feeling of a dream in his movies, though I absolutely understand why not everyone would like his films.
I loved Fire Walk With Me as well.
There are pretentious artsy movies that are a waste of time, Inland Empire is not one of them. This is possibly the best film he's done, unless he has another one in the works. Not for everyone obviously, but what a boring world if all films pleased all people.
>^..^
I'm watching it now and am fucking terrified that mark kermode is going to appear in it now
it's funny how divisive this film is, even for Lunch fans. I absolutely love it and consider it his masterpiece and one of my favorite films. I watch it at least once a year. But it's just not for everyone.
I’m a big lunch fan. Lynch is pretty cool too.
What about breakfast and dinner fans?
@@SpookNukem I'm with you on this one
What about second Lunch? I don’t think he knows about second Lunch
I love The Straight Story. There's a lot more to that movie than meets the eye.
Nope. "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is indeed, his masterpiece.
What David Lynch said was that the film is about a woman who gets lost in the market place; not just that she is in trouble.
Mark Kermode is great. Always bang on the money!!
I've seen it maybe 6 times. Most recently in a cinema for the first time. This is more of a "Motion Picture" than a "Movie". Right? It's art, open to the viewer feeling what they might. An esoteric work of staggering genius. Most people would think it garbage; it's just not meant for them. Don't worry, I like Fast and Furious too!! LOL
I am desperate to hear Mark discuss Twin Peaks: The Return! Does anybody know where I could locate something?
Dern should’ve got an Oscar. There is no Inland Empire without Laura Dern.
Such an AMAZING film, just watched it last night and loved it.
Not my favourite Lynch film but I've probably seen it more often than any of his other movies. I really like it but it's so hard to get people to sit down and watch it =/
I always wondered what Meryl Streep or Daniel Day Lewis would dream about if in a coma. All those characters they became, coming together and ripping apart. This movie might give you a taste of that. It's a really challenging film. Need more of those. Much more of those.
I'd love to see Meryl Streep in a David Lynch film.
Mulholland Drive is his masterpiece. That and Blue Velvet. Twin Peaks: the Return will also have its place at the top.
good for you mark kermode. it takes a brave person to sit through this and even braver one to say they liked this movie. mayo's responses during this review are the usual close-minded responses one is used to seeing in people who live their lives asleep. lynch addresses those curious minds who know and understand that underneath our seemingly linear 'realities' lie something ore obscure and complex. and THAT is what makes life so exciting.
Haven't seen it yet. And it's been a while since I saw Lost Highway. I just rewatched Mulholland Drive, and realized that I'd forgotten the bulk of it. Sounds like a great movie night! I am a hard core Lynch fan.
My favourite Lynch film, and an all time favourite film too
Same.
Love David Lynch movies, even if I don't understand them. Currently watching this gorgeous 3rd or 4th time.
Ive seen in old theatre in Central London. Saturday night(PremiereWeek). So Special.
The rabbits scenes is what got me into lynch, i saw it as a kid and couldnt stop thinking about it
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. I understood very little of this film after the first 20 minutes, but it affected me on a subliminal level, that's for sure
Subconscious meanings
'The Straight Story'. Surreal and terrifying. Changed my life.
It's a Goddamn masterpiece.
Hahaha so hilarious when someone's trying to explain the plot inland empire to someone who didn't see it. Love Inland Empire !
In regards to that comment about having to be asleep to get it, I can tell you from experience that's not the case. I liked it but I started it way too late at night and passed out half way through (I'm not a night owl BTW). The only thing I remember after going down was her on Hollywood Blvd. I still liked the portion of the movie I've seen though.
Mark, you're great! Thank you for voicing this opinion and for pointing out how boring normal Hollywood films are, and one more thing, I am one of the people that know exactly what you're talking about :)
I love the fact that my favourite film critic likes my favourite director
It is his best (most precise) film in my opinion. Hypnosis is the recurring theme here. There are a lot of important details that you can mistake for imperfections due to the video quality. One cue is the scene of misunderstanding between the director and Bucky J played by Lynch. There is a squeal of the door as the old witch enters the house and says hello. A bird flies right above as Nikki enters the studios. And so on and so on. BTW I hated it the first time I saw it.
One of the clearest explanations I've ever heard of Inland Empire lol. If you have never seen a David Lynch film watch his other 8 films before Lost Highway and Inland Empire and it'll make a little bit more sense.
I would put this film at #1 on my "Movies I Hate People Not Liking" list.
I would put this at #1 on my list of "Movies liked by insufferable bores who think raving about their niche interests is a substitute for having a personality."
@@Nathan-gd7xq ha! Because nothing says "having a personality" like dropping into a 3-year-old comment to insult someone you don't know for liking something you don't like. You must absolutely ooze personality.
What a comeback. You took the thing I said and said it to me. How will I ever recover.
I suspect that the cowl was a reference to his un-produced script, One Saliva Bubble. That is a film that should get made. The script was great.
He never saw Lost Highway..even if you hated it I doubt you'd forget seeing it lol!
There kind of is. Mulholland Drive ranked 28th on Sight and Sounds 2012 Critics List of top 250 films of all time. Blue Velvet was somewhere in the top 100 and Eraserhead was around 130.
Inland Empire is a not-so-great attempt at following up Mulholland Drive.
"Im looking forward to Norbit" - Simon Mayo 😂😂😂
What do you do at the gym?
i love it when simon mayo is thick.
He's Billericay Dickie and he's doing very well.
someone said rabbits was about a triple rape rape murder by "the guy in the green coat". which brings the three rabbits to purgatory and i want someone's opinion on the 42 minute art film. because i too heard the dialog that pointed to this
Haha! I'm with Mark on the Inland Revenue thing
It's been 10 years since Lynch made a feature length.
Yeah, that transcendental meditation seems to be working wonders, doesn't it?
I have never felt Lost Highway "difficult". It's more straight forward than Wild at Heart. Fred steals Pete's body. The Mystery Man tells Fred that in the far east, a murderer is left to wander alone for maybe a long time. But the malcontent will receive a bullet in the head eventually. Just before the credits roll, we see Fred's face blurring and funking out as the police follow him. It's time to assume another body. This will happen indefinitely until the man from the far east puts a bullet in his head.
I don’t think that’s what it’s about at all
Or Eraserhead, or Blue Velvet. There is no common consensus about what Lynch's best movie is, luckily.
This is the only David Lynch film where I can't make sense of it at all. Maybe there is more to it than I'm seeing but it just seems mostly like shallow experimentation. It's really beautiful though and Laura Dern is great in it.
Why hell yeah!! Take me how you want?
I assume the whole story is just Laura Dern being trapped in the phantoms spell for the whole movie?
I thought the first half of the film was great, but it goes completely off the rails in the second half. It’s very bizarre and more abstract than most of Lynch’s other films. I need to watch it again; every time I rewatch a David Lynch film, it becomes better to me, IDK why.
great movie..!
It's definitely one of Lynch's best pieces of work.
I'd forgotten that Kermode used to resemble Patrick Bateman.
+1.
I understand....
You are far away...
This movie is what would happen if we could film our dreams.
Although Mulholland Drive might be my favorite movie of his I can't say I think Sight and Sounds 2012 Critics List is that much of an authority on the subject. The critical community is one thing, Lynch fans and movie fans in general is another.
Besides, I don't know how accurate that list even represents the consensus of the critical community. Eraserhead and Blue velvet both have significantly higher ratings on Rotten Tomatoes than MD.
Mind The Oranges, Marlon!
He's really underselling how bizarre this movie actually is...
Possibly the best film ever made?
Its possible, I can understand the burning hatred some people have for it as its mostly inaccessible but when I watch it I am captivated by its screen presence, I have seen an awful lot of film but not a single one to memory leaves such as lasting impression, job done I say!
Ged Rooney yeah for me the interest comes in all those different thoughts and concepts in your head. Like Kermode said, films like Ghostrider you know exactly how its going to end. Most films are like that, and even if they do have a twist its not too interesting. Want a film that will be genuinely captivating? watch anything by Lynch
Such a late comment here, especially late just to frickin nitpick (this is much less a criticism I want to point out, rather just one thing, actually the only thing (haha) remotely 'wrong' with this entire commentary on Inland Empire - the nitpick isn't even related to IE). Laura Palmer was never technically possessed by the demon Bob, or maybe Beelzebub depending on which way a person may want to think about the character or again, and of course, think any other possible way about 'Bob' given that we're talking about Twin Peaks here. He certainly was close to full-on possessing Laura, though, and I suppose it could even be argued, that indeed she was possessed by Bob, but momentarily, while under the fan in the famous scene from Fire Walk With Me.
Also, last thing, I may have just slightly and innocently misinterpreted the way you meant the point in relation to IE to begin with, not so much even taking into consideration my belaboring the point in the first place. Apologies if that is the case. Real reason I prattle on here is because it's an interesting and nuanced question as to whether or not Laura was ever fully possessed, or at some point (i.e. in FWWM) temporarily and partially possessed by a demon, 'Bob,' as he is called in TP - So my nitpicking the detail, if anything, was actually what made me think about something I'd never properly considered before, so thank you doubly for that. Lots of really worthwhile interconnections and subtleties regarding IE and Lynch's film-making in general here. As is somewhat rare on TH-cam, this was time very well spent :)
Thanks for uploading your dialogue here! Not sure why I hadn't come across it before, but I genuinely enjoy the work you did here. Subbed.
It's a grower. The first time around, I enjoyed the film a lot until the second half, which just seemed to ramble nowhere at all and completely lost me. The second time round, I loved it, but it's a very slow and very long film that's best not watched all at once in one sitting. It's a better film than Lost Highway, but not as good as Wild at Heart, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive or Fire Walk with Me.
After seeing this, it makes me understand Lost Highway more easily, but it's better when you are not trying to understand it.
Inland Empire was great. I love the story with the extreme Lynch injection.
The only thing I hated about it was the camera that he used, the image quality was horrible. I wished he had a much bigger budget to work with, then it would have been acknowledged as an instant masterpiece like Mulholland Dr.
Only Mulholland Drive is not a masterpiece. I found it, as long as david lynch movies go, rather weak.
b-b-But... the guy who turns into another guy [in "Lost Highway"] has his transformation while in a jail cell, not a bedroom, as such.
With David Lynch, the weirder the better :)
Started watching this last night. Love David Lynch, but had to give up and go to bed. It was good to start with, then became hard work. Liked the rabbits bits but found it too odd and fragmented. That's not to say it's bad.
In-Land Empire, huh?
sticky end????????
To this date the scariest movie experience I've ever had. I started watching it in the middle of the night, and kept falling asleep during, only to be woken up from time to time by warped images, and industrial screamlike noises blasting from the speakers. The end result was that when the movie was finished I was unable to sleep for the next 4 hours because of the trauma. I love everything else that I've seen by David Lynch, but frankly speaking I never ever want to revisit the Inland Empire experience.
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Mark Commode
what a nasty host! Great passion from the reviewer and nice sell
Most viewers--even those who are supportive of the film--don't seem to have discovered the "key" to "unlocking" the perplexing structure of the film. In order to more accurately and fully perceive what you're witnessing you must first adjust your awareness--reposition your consciousness--whereby the fractured, seemingly random and irrational torrent of hysterical cinematic melodrama realigns and joins in your mind into a much more coherent and linear narrative. Lynch has provided some appropriately oblique clues, hints, and instructions at the very beginning of the film--delivered through the baffling dialog of the various foreign characters--for how to gain "passage" through the ingeniously concealed pinhole "entrance" into the "inner" real film. That all sounds presumptuous and pretentious, but trust me, it's more than worth the effort to find your way "in." There's a profoundly lucid and rational film awaiting you when you manage to penetrate INLAND EMPIRE's formidable exterior defenses and there encounter a most thrilling and visceral experience. It's perhaps the most profoundly intense film I've ever experience, ever.
The best advice I can offer anyone sincerely seeking "entry" is to keep in mind Lynch's longtime practice of Transcendental Meditation which, it turns out, is essentially the mode of consciousness which one must be in in order to absorb and process the otherwise ineffable chaos on screen into an infinitely more clear and cogent cinematic experience. The truly remarkable aspect of this unusual cognitive process is that the film then seems to be occurring more so in your own mind, parallel to what's occurring on screen, and therefore you experience the film as though it's somehow being delivered directly it into your consciousness. Once you properly "position" your awareness as per Lynch's early instructions you find that you're able to actively unravel the continuous stream of individual discrete mysteries and riddles, in real time, and to much more closely follow along the hectically ricocheting time sequence without being utterly dismayed. Rather than being violently battered about by an impossibly disrupted narrative you'll instead be transported along the intricately constructed roller coaster of Inland Empire's cinematic artistry, soaring, swooping and creeping through the vast caverns, ornate galleries and intimate cupboards of Lynch's archly Gothic mind. It's a helluva ride.
Ultimately we arrive at an impressively profound insight into the nature of our frightfully disturbing media saturated culture, and at the moment of encountering this revelatory insight it's almost as though Lynch is right there with us, encountering it for the first time, alongside us, together. It's a sublimely transcendent and unprecedented pleasure to be so intimately connected to an artist through the process of his creative method, and everyone deserves to experience and enjoy this rare magic for themselves, but you must first make the initial effort to understand what David Lynch is asking of us in the way of expanding our consciousness. Good Luck.
Is that you, Snidely?
+Matthew Smith A Dooshbaghe never has and never will admit to anything, especially to being a Dooshbaghe.
Lol, Inland Revenue.
blame my english teacher's sense of humor
I thought Kermode hated Inland Empire.
Nick Cave catches on fire and turns into a skeleton?
why does no one understand simon's sense of humor? im pretty sure even though he's genuinely confused he's just messing around with the sarcastic monotone
Im not suprised Kermode mentioned part 1:53 - 2:15 .
It has Kermides' style of talk - bullshit wrapped in pretty shiny paper.
This sounds like an outrageous dark, absurdist comedy?
David Lynch doesn’t make Movies he makes experiences
Kermode is confused quite easily it seems. Right after claiming Inland Empire is confusing he refers to a scene in Lost Highway that doesn't actually happen. Bill Pullman's character goes to jail and turns into someone else. It doesn't happen in the "darkness" in his room. For fuck sake you're reviewing a film. Get ti right.
Inland Empire is Lynchs greatest and most rewarding achievement.
The man must be deranged Lynch I mean But Bowie got a few good songs (imo) out of it
He trashes Inland Empire and then says that he loves it?
"I can't make sense of this film
Pretentious garbage it is!!!"
Pretension has nothing to do with coherence (or perceived lack thereof)
it has to do with
1) someone believing they are cleverer than you - and acting on that belief.
2) someone believing they exist fluently within a cultural etiquette to which you could never aspire.
You only have to watch ANY interview with DL to see the man has neither of these qualities. - yw :)
He should've said "I'm a moron who can't grasp that art sometimes is meant to be felt instead of understood, and since I can't understand it, it must mean that it is bad!"
Thanks for posting!
In general: I hated this film, and I love David Lynch.
Fire Walk With Me? Mulholland Dr. is Lynch's masterpiece!