Lynch's films have always been like this, full of unrestrained imagery, cutting too arrogant and too free, never considering whether it is Who sits on the other end of the screen, how frowns and tolerates a genius who unabashedly sway his passion and temperament. In his own words he likes to "plunge headlong into a world of dreams made or discovered by me; a world chosen by me". The world was chosen by him, and the audience's nightmare began like this.
Yes, nightmare. Once in Lynch's film, step on the tail of the nightmare and follow the mottled image up to the forgotten part. Those are secret feelings that a person is hard to find in a sober state. After all, reason can always hold a person tightly within a boundary. But in Lynch's film, this boundary is cancelled, and the inner fear, anxiety, irritability, evil, bloodthirsty, and desire for destruction all run out, and the demons dance wildly. From the damp gloom of Eraserhead, the filthy deformity of The Elephant Man, to the twisted perverts of Blue Velvet, the madness of Wild at My Heart, to the monsters of Lost Highway The Other Ghosts, finally, this dark and ecstatic nightmare temperament reached its extreme in the 54th Cannes Best Director Award-winning film "Mulholland Drive". The film adheres to Lynch's always fragmented plot and mysterious and treacherous images, and is known as "the dance of death trembling". When two-thirds of the film has passed, the story is suddenly and completely overturned, and the confusing character entanglement begins to reveal fine threads, which leads to a not too clever truth - all the intricate and strange things are just a lost love. At that moment, there was a sigh of awakening from a big dream. It turned out to be like this. Lynch, so Lynch.
Broken, mad, and illogical, Lynch has always emphasized that the film is shaping the subconscious, even though he denied that he was articulating some Freudian theory. In his view, making a film is not necessary to stop and ask "what am I doing?" He pursues a purer source, which comes from the subconscious mind that is not disturbed by reason. Lynch's film exudes a strong nightmarish atmosphere. It is real horror, real absurdity, and real temptation. At the same time, it makes people terrified and can't help but want to laugh, and is attracted by that irresistible force. Unable to sustain. We can compare Lynch's film to a black, a deep black, as Lynch said "You can go in, and just because it's going to keep going dark, thoughts can squeeze in, what's going on in there. It became obvious." Perhaps because Lynch firmly believed that "the more darkness you gather, the more light you can see", except for the "Stray" that even Lynch himself was surprised by Special Story", this noir runs through his films from beginning to end.
Some people call Lynch's films "existentialism", others say he is "expressionism", and some people think that his films are illustrations of Freud's theory, in fact, what kind of doctrine is in Lynch's place is somewhat different. Appropriate, because his films are always "films that can only be experienced and cannot be explained".
Back to Inland Empire. The title itself may seem puzzling, but in fact it came very casually, from a conversation Lynch had with Queen actress Laura Dern. Laura inadvertently mentioned this place name in the east of Los Angeles. Lynch was attracted by the word and decided to use it as the title of his movie, on the grounds that "I like the word inland very much, I also like the word empire very much." It can be seen that although it is a place name, it has nothing to do with the actual place. Throughout the whole film, the title seems to imply something related to the spirit, a built up inner grand world without an outlet. Don't believe the synopsis that can be found everywhere on the Internet, it is the one that misleads most people, pointing out a clue to the confused interlopers on this journey to the dark and deep inland empire. way back. But people trapped in the labyrinth tend to easily trust any signpost, after all, it seems reasonable: An actress, Nikki, during a cursed movie shoot, begins to become a little unhinged, unable to distinguish herself from her characters. And the characters in the play also broke into her real life one by one. Yes, this is exactly what we saw. At 2 hours and 26 minutes, a camera shot explained the position of the camera, the camera was put away, the director called to stop, the lights came on, the actors left, and Nicky, who was already dead, got up. At that time, we couldn't help but slap our thighs, so it was! be cheated! It's just that an actress is too deep into the play, schizophrenic, it's that simple.
Is it just that simple? In fact, the real scam has just begun, otherwise how can we explain the subsequent development of the story. After the filming of the film ended, Nicky stepped into the horror events she had already experienced, into the movie situation she had already acted, and entered the room where she had been trapped many times, where she found a The gun, and finally drew the gun and killed the man who once appeared behind the woods with a light bulb in his mouth (this is the biggest black humor in the whole film, that "don't put the light bulb in your mouth" cold joke appeared at such a terrifying time ), immediately opened a door, hugged the Polish girl inside, and then disappeared like a puff of smoke... Yes, the heroine smiled and disappeared, the inexplicable happy ending came quickly, and the subtitles rose rapidly .
Done.
At that moment, I felt a huge chill, yes, we were wrong, and the travel guide was wrong. The story is not that simple, it's what we recommend in vain. We didn't get to the center of the empire. No way.
Lying in bed was very depressed for a while, I don't know if I was crazy or Lynch was crazy. That feeling is like the phrase that appears repeatedly in the film: there is no way out.
We did encounter one of Lynch's weirdest and most obscure films, and perhaps there's some comfort in the words of lead Laura Dern, who has said she herself doesn't know what she's doing. If "Mulholland Drive" also restructured the story in the last third, using the blue "key" to open the mysterious box, it was instantly enlightened, making people wake up from a dream. Will the same scene be reproduced in Inland Empire? Following this line of thought, I reluctantly reread the last paragraphs of the rotten, but I can't find any where to turn the rotten into the magic. But there is only one truth, and the clues must be forgotten in the places we hurried past. It was only then that I suddenly remembered that several people in the film repeatedly said the phrase "there must be a cause", and when we returned to the place where the original path diverged, we realized that we had thought wrong at the beginning. The first appearance of this story is not Nicky at all, but a Polish girl who is the mysterious viewer. Nicky is just the other being stared at, and the film ends in the giant gray rabbit comedy watched by the Polish girl at the beginning. No wonder she finally found the girl, and she smiled, and the tone of the film suddenly softened - the crying girl is the body of Nikki, and she is the terminal of all illusions. In fact, we have already found the answer, but we are struggling to find the puzzle. It's as simple as that, five years after "Mulholland Drive", David Lynch played split personality again. These two films are like two flowers, and the isomerism splits into two lives in different time and space. It's just that the younger sister is a lot more coquettish than the elder sister, and it makes people unable to return to their senses. If you say one more sentence here, it will be a spoiler, making this film with too high suspense to touch untouchable. "There is always another world under the surface." Perhaps no amount of interpretations necessarily touches the truth. Lynch has a very good saying, "Watching every movie is like stepping into a new world. You shouldn't be afraid to use your intuition and feeling to find your way out." This is the charm of Lynch's films, we rely on our own Eyes and ears have entered a dynamic multi-image world. My adventure ends here, what kind of "inland empire" have you entered through other paths?
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