Movies are certainly not for guessing. With unprecedented chaos and fragmentation, David Lynch's new Inland Empire seeks to discourage quiz-loving audiences so they can notice the image's true expression.
It's impossible to watch a David Lynch movie without trying to guess. Tonight, tortured by alcohol, I sat on the sofa, wrestling with this director who deliberately confused dream and reality for 3 hours, eager to find any possible clues that run through the whole story. But this time the story collapsed. On the surface, "Inland Empire" continues David Lynch's usual approach, telling the story of two women: a Polish woman who imagines herself as a prostitute in an affair, and one who blurs the film and the Hollywood actress who lives on the line between reality. The two stories correspond to each other, the fates and identities of the two women even merge with each other, and despite the innumerable distractions of hallucinations, the basic context can be followed. But that's just the surface. Whenever I am happy that I finally have a clue, David Lynch always takes the time to use some of the hardest illogicalities to destroy all speculation and make it seem possible to connect reality and reality. The evidence of the dream has become perjury. At the end, he told the exhausted me: wash and sleep.
I can't fall asleep. Frustration tormented me. The lights on the opposite Hongshan Mountain were still as quiet, but there was the shameless roar of grouting at the construction site downstairs. My inner thoughts coexist with those lights, the roar of the lights and the passing trucks. If I roll up the bamboo curtains in the study, the dark ocean in front of Gulangyu Island and the long row of street lights approaching the ocean will add to the illusion of this night. . But I was so tormented that I was too lazy to do this superfluous move.
I was flipping through an old book called God and the New Physics when I went to the toilet during the day, which once again brought up the famous tragic tale of Schrödinger's cat. The story goes that when you have a switch that decides a cat's life or death, if your hand hasn't flipped the switch, the cat is in a life-or-death state - this one is described as a quantum The cat of the process is equivalent to a mix of dead-alive. The well-known Forrest Gump also understands this profound theory. He said that life is a box of chocolates, and you never know which one you will take out. The scientific basis for this statement is actually: the reason you never know which one you will take out is whether the chocolates in the box are arranged and combined like a lottery before your hand picks up one of them, or are they caught in an infinite variety of changes. middle.
Now I have to admit that David Lynch is in the right place, otherwise he wouldn't be so keen to create as many parallel universes as possible in a single movie, and is more and more determined to break the logical chain between these parallel universes . In the era of "Monster Night Panic" and "Hemulland Road", this madman has done a good job, but at that time his conscience was not lost, and in the end he would still give one or two wormholes that can penetrate parallel universes, such as Say, one or two props, one or two symbolic scenes, for the audience to build a bridge between reality and fantasy. This time, the wormhole disappeared, the props disappeared, and the bridge collapsed. Like a real quantum physicist, he deduced a set of parallel universes that could not be interconnected at all, and the spirits of us observers could only follow The bifurcation of the universe into countless copies is utterly hopeless.
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