stray into the world of madness

Inland Empire

One-sentence film review: I fell into a virtual world and found a real story in the virtual world, which tells exactly my real life.

I am really puzzled that this kind of film is so attractive. The relationship between the director and the audience is: the speaker has no intention, and the listener has a heart. When I tell my story, it is up to you whether you can listen to it or not, and whether you understand it or not. This is the case with most creators, but some people want to be read, and some people don’t want others to understand too much.

I have a soft spot for long films and emotional films, and this three-hour film is just what I wanted.

• The movie begins with the erotic deal between a Polish man and a woman, with black and white images and blurred faces - the characters in the dream often cannot see their faces; the crying woman sits in front of the TV watching the snowflake screen and weeps; the Rabbit House appears; A pair of Polish men talking. It ends at -08:40, and the first few are drawn into the same time and space. Then enter another screen space.
• The neighbor woman came to visit Nikki, told a bunch of words and a story inexplicably, and laid the foreshadowing here.
• Nikki is a movie actor, won a new script, won a new role, and started a movie shooting.
• After encountering cooperation matters with the director and his partner, he participated in a TV interview. After the interview, the people around his partner told him to be quiet and not to mess with Nikki. Her husband is a powerful person in the local area, and he was involved in the incident. No one can be offended. Another foreshadowing.
• The camera turned to the heroine and her partner touching the script in the studio, "Tell me, I was really blown away by the acting in this section", and found that there was something different in the studio, and there seemed to be someone else.
• When the heroine's husband introduced his wife to his parents, she was actually half-Polish and could understand but not speak. Here - 34:25 to enter the next space.
• A woman is telling police about an incident. The following is the content experience: She felt that she was hypnotized and wanted to kill someone, but she didn't know who that person was, and she didn't know who hypnotized her, and told the story of seeing "that person", "the person told her, She would figure out who she was going to kill. The police asked how to kill the man, and the woman said firmly, with a screwdriver.
• The heroine and her partner play against each other. In the play, the two are concubines who cheated on their family and lover. "Actually, this part is easy to be brought in, thinking it is the real world, but it is actually the movie world."
• The producer borrowed money from the heroine and partner to pay the rent.
• The partner was invited to the hostess' house for dinner, and was dragged to the study by the hostess' husband for an interview, which clearly warned this extramarital affair #mywife she can't control her behavior because I don't allow it. The bondage of marriage is substantial, the promises we make, the promises we honor and keep, for ourselves. When necessary, we even compromised to keep our vows. All in all, she is a restricted #女主 Husband has a very strong desire for control, and will do anything for the integrity of the marriage. Classic line: Actions lead to consequences, and sure enough, if the action itself is wrong, the consequences will be dark and unavoidable. This passage is also linked to the suggestive conversation of the neighbor woman. At this moment, the hostess overheard all the conversations.
• Go back to the set and continue filming - the clip of the two having an affair. The producer again borrowed money from other people on set. In fact, in the gap between the conversations, it can be seen that the two secretly fell in love and embarked on the road of adultery. Continue to take intimate pictures of the two of them.
• Still in the shooting picture, the heroine said that she suspected that her husband had discovered their relationship and might kill them both. It really sounded like their lines, and the partner was horrified. Focus: This part is still in the movie world, but the heroine has begun to appear insane, unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy, thinking it is the real world.
• This movie is actually a remake, and after several shootings, for various strange reasons, it was never completed. Lines#The development of the story is always bizarre, these stories are immutable, everywhere, should not be taken seriously, should not be trusted, and should not affect the performance. Unless, these stories are true. Another foreshadowing.
• The heroine and partner are having sex and are being watched. From the surroundings, no camera, no crew, in the house on the set. The partner called her Sue, which is the name of the character in the movie, that is, it was still filming, but the heroine appeared in the play, talking about the strange things that happened yesterday, and the partner laughed weirdly. The camera fades out following the monitor. In fact, the monitor who appeared in this episode can't tell whether it is the heroine's husband or the husband of the protagonist in the movie or an imaginary character.
• The heroine entered her story, bought daily necessities, parked the car in the alley, found a door, entered, but saw the scene of the scene at the beginning of the scene. The heroine ran all the way, looked back and saw the shadow of her husband behind the window, shouted Billy (the name of her partner in the movie), and ran into the hut in a panic. In fact, she has been trapped in the virtual world of the movie.
• The heroine enters the world of prostitutes. In fact, I saw the protagonist in the real story of the script - the crying woman in the title.
• Rabbit House reappears.
• The heroine was talking to a strange man and told a story that happened when she was a child. When she was fifteen years old, she was raped and the man's eyeballs were gouged out. This is actually the real experience of the crying woman. The makeup smeared off her face is the mark of being beaten.
• Returning to the room again, seeing the clothes burned by cigarette butts on the ground, he looked puzzled and insane. Prostitutes show up, talking about women being abandoned. Start dancing. "This paragraph is so confusing that people can't tell which space it is."
• Sue is arguing with her husband that she is pregnant. The husband's reaction was not surprise or joy, but sarcasm. Foreshadowing, I will explain why this reaction occurs later.
• The phone calls into the Rabbit House, and Sue yells Billy's name and is sneered by the audience.
• The heroine continues to tell the story.
• The camera flashes back to the backyard of the cottage.
• A woman enters the room with a screwdriver in hand. The dead woman fell to the ground, her intestines flowing out of her right abdomen.
• The woman met her husband and was told that her concubine and wife were killed. The concubine and the heroine's husband in reality were the same person. crying woman.
• Back in the backyard of the cottage, a group of circus performers entered the story screen, partners in the men's circus. Recalls the man's life and character background in the circus - a one-legged sister with a carved cane, who killed three children when he was in first grade. (Foreshadowing) The timeline is unclear.
• What you see through the smoke holes in the clothes is the world in which prostitutes live. Prove that Sue and the prostitute are not in the same space.
• The heroine left the hut, went to Billy's house, and asked him if he loved her face to face. At this time, Billy's wife was also present, and their relationship was exposed. The camera kept flashing back, and Billy's wife was the woman who showed up at the police station, the woman whose bowels came out.
• The man went into the forest and said the title of the film.
• A strange woman visits the hut, and the camera gives a close-up of the woman's watch, which is Sue's watch, again showing the chaos of the space.
• The hostess goes to another cabin and gets a screwdriver. The man I saw disappeared.
• The camera returns to the Rabbit House again.
• The screen flashes, and the heroine returns to the street, with the prostitutes. I saw myself across the road with a screwdriver in hand. Space is cluttered.
• The tones of the picture change to warm colors, and the crying woman is actually a Polish prostitute.
• The hostess went to the bar to find Carolina and was directed to the scene of talking with a strange man. It was mentioned in this conversation that she wanted to tell what happened, but she didn't know the order in which it happened.
• The camera enters the memory of the heroine-the husband is actually infertile, so when he heard the news of the pregnancy at that time, he knew the fact that the heroine cheated. Classic line: I'm not very fanatical about imagining tomorrow, and today is fading in seconds.
• The phone rang, and the strange man answered the phone. At this time, he gave a close-up of the screwdriver in the hostess' hand, and the hostess left. Returning to the street and seeing the disappearing woman again, the heroine found a way to distinguish between reality and illusion. I found that I was still in an illusory world, and the woman who disappeared rushed out, grabbed the screwdriver and stabbed the heroine.
• The heroine collapses on the side of the street, and two homeless people discuss how to get from Hollywood to Pamora. The cousin of the black homeless lived in Pamora, another friend of the homeless lived in Pamora, a prostitute in a blond wig who had a monkey, and she told a bizarre story.
• The heroine in the movie died, and the black homeless lit fire for her, saying: No more blue tomorrow, the title of the movie shot by the heroine is called "On High in Blue Tomorrows", and the filming is over.
• The heroine got up, walked out of the set, and began to be in a trance. When she returned to reality, she thought she was still in the movie. She looked at the camera, looked at the crying woman, and appeared on TV.
• In the next shot, the heroine entered the cinema, looked at herself on the big screen, and said what she said when talking with a strange man, and fell into a vortex of memory. The picture in the movie is guiding the heroine to solve all the problems-entering the dark tunnel again, opening the door, returning to the hut, holding the gun, and standing in front of the door of room 47 following the shaking picture, when holding the screwdriver The man appears again, this time with the heroine's gun pointed at him, killing him.
• The door was opened, and behind door 47 was the Rabbit House, and the heroine was trapped in the TV and the movie.
• The Polish woman saw the heroine walking towards her on TV, the spaces were interlaced, the crying woman laughed, and the heroine resolved the root cause of the problem for her.
• Heather, a Polish woman, returned to her own world following the path of the heroine, and saw her husband Paul and children.
• The picture returns to the beginning, the neighbor woman and the hostess look at themselves sitting opposite.
• At the end of the film, these virtual characters appear in the same frame - the one-legged woman, the wig whore dancing with her monkey, whore girlfriend.
• Finish.

Notable places:

1. The neighbor woman says the time, if it's 9:45, it should be midnight, which appears in the final dialogue of the heroine's movie.
2. The inexplicable words that the neighbor woman said at the beginning were actually to explain the film made by the heroine, "Because of magic, if it happened tomorrow, you would be sitting there." This proves that this story in the film is actually a reality and a Virtual interspersed, just like what the heroine experienced and happened, not a completely virtual story.
3. The neighbor woman began to speak inexplicably, like a psychic, knowing the script of the heroine and the story to be shot in the script.
4. The neighbor woman asked, does your husband want to participate? The hostess denied it. It can be known that the heroine's husband who keeps appearing in the script is actually a substitute symbol, symbolizing some kind of pressure and pain. Ask again: Is there any murder in your movie, the heroine answered no, it is not part of the movie, the neighbor woman refuted her answer.
5. Two stories told by a neighbor woman:

A boy, opened the door and walked out of the room, saw the world, walked down the aisle, there was a reflection, the devil was born, the devil was born, and it followed the boy.

A girl, going out, got lost in the market, as if she didn't really come into this world, and then, she didn't go through the market, she went through the alley behind the market, which was the way to the palace.

How many families are there in the whole movie?

1. Actress Nikki, husband and partner Devon
2. Crying woman Heather, husband Paul and son
3. Movie heroines Sue and Billy, and Billy's wife
4. Polish couple on the street

Who is the phantom that appears and disappears?

1. lady's husband
2. Polish man

After watching the whole movie, I sold this excellent work to the people around me - rough picture, constantly flashing light spots, terrifying close-up, sudden face, fragmented storyline, weird The atmosphere of the soundtrack, all these imperfections pieced together into a perfect work. I read it twice, wrote down a bunch of plot synopses, and caught the main line of the story. The script of the movie is improvised, and the name of the movie was born out of nowhere (the director learned about "inland" while talking with Laura Dern, and liked "empire" very much, so it was formed), neither the script nor the name need to be over-interpreted, back to the story Just fine.

Four couples, four love stories, nothing different, human nature, marriage, imprisonment, derailment, murder, oppression, fear, liberation, release, the same story structure, the order of appearance is different, resulting in confusion of thinking, unable to distinguish Out of the real and virtual world, in fact, there is no real and virtual distinction. The phantom in the film, the heroine is constantly escaping, and it is not until the last time that she really raises her gun to face this fear. There is only one story from the beginning to the end, and there is only one protagonist. Nikki is just the one who tells the story. Unexpectedly, he also entered the world of the story. He passed through Axxon N twice, which also confirmed the words of the neighbor woman. One ending was lost. , one ending is liberation.

The three-hour movie is whether I am digging into the story or myself. As far as I feel after watching it, it is easy to fall into the world of myself and the movie. The movie doesn't make it clear what I'm still racking my brain for. Just like all stories, there is a soul in every story, which guides the direction of the story and affects the emotions of the characters. The soul of this movie is still a thought, left or right, heaven or destruction. This is also what many movie critics say about the inner demon. After watching the movie, I may also begin to doubt whether this inner demon exists or only exists in my mind.

In the last scene, all the virtual characters appear in the same picture, breaking the space, and the completely chaotic thinking is telling you that all this is an illusory reality.

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