At the end of the film, there is no more sound and no black picture, it is over, but I can't help but think back to all those things, in front of the double image constructed by Lynch. I've always thought it would be unfair to interpret one expression in another, but otherwise, it's hard to describe those situations, those private feelings.
In front of the empire built by the film, there are two ways of interpretation. (Obviously, I think there are several ways of interpretation in various expressions.) The first is a completely original and unpolished feeling, which can only be understood but not comprehended. As the saying goes, there's nothing we can say about it other than watching its amazing performance in front of the original. The second is to intervene in the film as a scholar, make a reasoning analysis of any detail, and then come up with an "official" interpretation. Obviously, in the first method, we have nothing to do except watch the film itself again. It can be said, and in the second way, everything will end in inevitable vulgarity. Obviously, we should not judge the correctness of these two methods, just because these two methods are just a personal choice and there is no right or wrong, here I hope to restore the first method in the form of the second method. way of feeling.
In these two ways that bother me, we seem to become part of the film's story, just as the characters in the film keep asking questions, I think both the actors and the characters are questioning the authenticity of the world. Life has its laws, and the film does not need to follow the laws of this premise. Just as we have never doubted the authenticity of the existence of aliens in science fiction films, while watching the film, in order to obtain the maximum experience, we should also follow the film. its own logic.
First of all, what I want to know is whether the film tells the same core story that is constantly being interpreted, about the collapse and derailment of the relationship between the sexes. Interpreted in different time and space, like a fairy tale passed down by word of mouth, the situation changes in the process of dissemination, (this is constantly appearing in Lynch's films, although the image is the same, but a completely different story is being staged) Maybe the details are different, maybe the ending is different, maybe the story itself has changed dramatically. The stories or legends handed down from ancient times have derived countless avatars due to their uncertainty.
Actors and characters are also changing and intersecting, actors have their own lives, and characters have their own lives. It can also form a new level of story relationship. Here again I think of approximations in literature. In Wang Xiaobo's "Wan Shou Temple", a similar story is also told. In the repeated story, the characters change, the narrator changes, the details change...everything is changing. Our time experience has been dissolved, and Lynch used countless fragments to form a new story. We can't be sure how many stories are assembled here, because each shot may be an independent story, following the paradox of the film. , I may also usher in the possibility of "derailment", because we have to think about the emotions that are contained. We may not be able to bear an expression that is too unfamiliar and deviates from common sense. When something appears with anti-logic, negation is the first choice. Fortunately, we were able to get redemption at the end, and we finally got a good ending from the first feeling, after a series of nightmarish experiences. Analyzing the habitual intentions in Lynch's work is not my main endeavor. In my opinion, even stabbed into the empire as a person who has no background story and is seeing Lynch's work for the first time. Its charm, and in the absence of Lynch's explanation, feels that the film itself is far more beautiful than that obtained by substituting film reviews into the film from a very personal feeling. Maybe Lynch himself wants to disintegrate the reference. Most people cannot remember the memory of their past life clearly, which is false memory. As such, Lynch's lens seems to act as the noumenon of memory. Everything in the past is false and true. In the film instead of the answer given by memory, we seem to be retracing the life of each subject, even though we may get False, but at the moment when the truth has no trace and is replaced by the false, the false has been sublimated to the true.
After a series of events, we can no longer tell where we are, as if it is another character who has gained a new memory experience. He achieves this goal in non-stop nesting.
At the same time, we have also regarded the film as a combination of fragmented fragments, discontinuous, and in the fragments, we have constructed an entire personal version of "Inland Empire" with our own humble imagination. We also participated in the creation of the film, becoming the The preacher of the next story also constitutes a truly complete Inland Empire.
Written on 2019.3.1, Hangzhou
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