Analysis of "Inland Empire"

Clovis 2022-03-24 09:02:24

Backstory :

AXXON N: The longest-running radio drama ever aired at the opening. The name of the story was: "a grey winter day in an old hotel" (in reference to the Polish scene in the back), and when they remade the film, the name was changed to "Wandering" In Melancholy Tomorrow", also known as "47", the date of the adaptation is 2005.



First of all, we need to know the structure of the Polish curse. In this structure, the two protagonists who cheated must die. Why, will be mentioned below. First of all, to strip out each individual main line, you must know the program of each series of murders and the distribution of characters in it.



The woman at the beginning had the entire movie on the TV, and this one watched the screen by herself.



Main characters:

Nikki: Actress, who plays Sue. Carolina: The Girl Who Watches the Movie, Simultaneously Appears in the Back Smithy

: Sue's Husband

Billy's Wife

Passers-by: The strange old woman, the woman with the gold watch, the invisible woman who came to the old Polish mansion.

Mr.K: The man with glasses sitting on the interrogation table in the AXXONN room.

Illusion Su: Being in a certain state of mind, having a body, seeing a lot of sluts, a being in a huge curse story. It may be the "reflection" that the old woman said, where each character has a reflection.



Worldview:

The source of the curse: Three people, Janek, Kerim, and Smithy, knew the entrance to the Inland Empire, and in some form existed in later modern times, and directly participated in the movie, causing the curse to happen.

First World: Nicky, Devin, Nicky's Husband

Second World: Movie in Progress, Sue, Billy, Doris, Smithy

The third world: Old Poland, similar to Carolina's yellow-headed woman (infidelity), Kerim, Old Poland Smithy, woman wearing a watch. (Proof below, not sure) The

Fourth World: Old Poland 2, Carolina, Last Husband Smithy & Kids, Nicky, Phantom (Krim). (uncertain)

Fifth World: The twisted spiritual world where Sue and Nicky's combined Chaos is located. The existence of this world, the first proof is that in the studio, two Nikki appeared at the same time, and the one who came in from behind AXXONN was the confused Nikki, who shouted "Billy" (in the script) role), after that, as long as you see AXXONN, it is where she appears, and she does not have normal thinking in every scene. At the same time, on the last street, Nicky also saw a distorted laugh of himself on the opposite street (2 hours, 28 minutes and 40 seconds), proving that there is indeed a second Nicky. Finally Nikki sees the twisted Sue talking to Mr K in the theater again.

The sixth world: The world where the rabbit-headed human is located. This is a microcosm of the entire chain of story networks. Every story, the key words of every key character, and even the meaning of color in the movie, are all here.



1. The person who wants to find the entrance is called "Phantom", Phantom. At the same time, the bald Janek, a boss-like character, appears.



2. The old woman speaks English with an Eastern European accent. She said "because of magic", which means that this script is magical. It also mentioned the "reflection devil"



PS: (1) From the original meaning of English, this reflection refers to reflection, that is, shooting out and then returning, which is what her husband said "behavior leads to consequences", the devil produces The reason comes from its own launch, and then bounces back. Logically speaking, these details corroborate each other, taking into account language differences.



(2) Time runs through the entire movie, and the old woman's saying "I think if it's 9:45, I think it's after midnight!", is exactly in line with the constant references to "yesterday", "today" and "tomorrow". There are three time states in the movie. The meaning of "after midnight" is behind it.



3. The crew warned that Nicky's husband is powerful and should not have any unreasonable thoughts about Nicky.



4. The producers did not tell the director team the story behind the film. And the two actors who made the film for the first time "discovered the secret behind it" and were murdered, paying attention to the details that both died. The director mentioned that this script is also called "47".



5.34 points, the proof that Niki is also of Polish origin, the old woman asked him in Polish "You don't understand what I said?", the old man said "half", that is, half Polish, Nikki said "[but] I I can't speak Polish", pay attention to this "but", her husband helped her round the field, saying that she could understand a little bit, Nikki's bloodline should be from Poland, from the color of their eyes and facial contours, it can be roughly seen that they are Eastern Europeans Features. This should be the details before she and her husband got married. Every sentence in this passage shows that her husband's family is very conservative and has an aristocratic style. It also confirms point 3, power and power.



At 6.41 minutes, when the makeup artist was putting on Nicky's makeup, he said that his 19-year-old niece, when the crew was doing preliminary work, suddenly stopped asking in an old foreign accent: "Who plays Smithy?" Smithy is Sue's husband in the movie. At this point it is implied that strange things have begun to happen.



At 7.42 minutes, her husband came here and told the actor Devine that the behavior led to consequences and could not be avoided. Note that the highlight here is that his husband said "I'm listening to you, but I can't hear you". This scene was witnessed by Nikki (from the beginning to the end).



8.50 minutes. The crew said that after the start of work, one of the members said a long list of words in Polish.



At 9.55 minutes, when Devin and Nicky were partying alone, Nicky felt that her husband found out about them, and the camera was an image that her husband did. So the next day Devin made a special trip to ask the crew what happened in the past. The crew had a saying, "These stories are set in stone."

From the time they went to "drink coffee", their roles and their real identities have begun to become confused.

PS: From here, everyone can gradually step out of the image of "Niki", and re-construct an image of "Su" in their hearts, otherwise it is easy to be influenced by the beginning of the movie and not know what happened. After all, Nicky is a Pretty clear characters.



10. From 56 points to 60 points, here is a lot of information:



(1) Nicky's name is Devin "Billy", and Billy is the name of the character he played, and "Billy" also calls her "Su". At this time, their consciousness has been swayed by the magic of the script, Then all of a sudden she said "It's me, Devin, it's Nicky" and she suddenly remembered who she really was.

(2) Her husband witnessed the whole affair

(3) Nicky's last words were "forgive me", and Devin's horrified expression proved that they had just lost consciousness and felt that this "magic" might bring tragic consequences.

(4) Nikki mentioned what happened the next day, she said "that's the story of yesterday, but I think it will happen tomorrow", the meaning of this sentence is that this Polish legendary story, once happened, It will happen again, "all the memories flooded to me, and I started to think, the whole memory, I don't know what it is", which also led to the messy memories that followed.

(5) There was no car parked there. After she entered the AXXoNN room, she finally saw her husband in the window of the house. So far, three people have appeared in the first story, Devin (Billy), Nicky (Su ), Nicky's husband (another actor plays the husband Smithy in the play), and the room in the window is Smithy's room (see 24-25 minutes for details)



11. Next, which is the top (4 ), followed by a long series of memories. The narrative is very confusing. It talks about a way to see a certain truth, and the emphasis is on "putting on a watch."



12. Let’s start with Doris. At 34 minutes and 37 seconds, Doris appeared. She was Billy’s wife. She told the man that she was hypnotized and she was going to kill someone. The man asked who hypnotized her. She said at the bar.

At 1 hour and 53 minutes, the picture in Doris' mind was that the "Phantom" at the bar was hypnotizing her. This hypnosis was the magic of the script, and she wanted to kill Su, who had an affair with her husband. Sue talked about something big happened and she didn't care what happened.

I think the big thing above is that at 1:30 she told her husband Smithy that she was pregnant and Smithy wasn't fertile (2:16) so she was exposed and abused.



13. Su suddenly got up and called Billy one night, and then the picture shows the rabbit answering the phone. The real sequence should be 2 hours and 15 minutes, as can be seen from the clothes. His husband Smithy found out the truth and left (talking to Mr. K later saying "the night he left").



14. Each light is red above and green below. There are three colors implied in the film.

Rabbit Head said "it will be red" and "the person in the green coat", at 1 hour 7 minutes it can be seen that Su's husband took off the green coat. At 1:16 we can see Smithy's green coat again. Blue appears when things are going well.



15. The first time I went to see Mr.K was at 1 hour and 21 minutes. It was about an abusive man.

The second time I went to see Mr.K was at 1 hour and 33 minutes. It was about a woman who betrayed a man, so the man Using domestic violence, it was finally mentioned that the little girl "would have teeth and wailing" when she saw the end of the world. This sentence took care of the following 1 hour and 39 minutes. The woman that the Polish woman killed, when she was repenting before, actually showed that she had done something wrong.

The second time continues, at 1 hour and 45 minutes, here it is mentioned that "Phantom, Phantom" suddenly disappeared after being caught in a bar fight. His legless sister elementary school killed three children, which proves that Phantom is also a sadist. At 2 hours the woman sees the Phantom with a red light bulb, and the screwdriver on the ground suggests that she is about to take revenge.

At the end of the third time at 2 hours and 14 minutes, carefully pay attention to the switching of the camera. The previous two visits to Mr.K came to Su's mind. Talking about her husband thinking she betrayed him and speaking weird language.

The whole process is getting clearer.



16. About inaudible:

(1) First of all, Nicky's husband couldn't hear Devin when he was talking to Devin at 43

(2) The second is the man in old Poland who looks like Smithy, and the woman who is "invisible and barely audible" and tells him to bring his gun soon after saying that it is not midnight yet. Run, their family obviously knows that legend. The woman's first sentence was, "Someone is there", which Su also said at 2 hours and 21 minutes. Asked "Where am I", the same words as the rabbit head on the left,

(3) While Nikki and Devin were secretly gathering in that house, Nicky heard a voice, "What's going on", the camera pointed to the camera, actually No one appeared on the show, and this mysterious voice directly led them to ask the producer the next day. At this time, the invisible Smithy appeared.



17. About looking for someone

(1) 1 hour and 55 minutes, someone like Smithy came to look for the Phantom, and the person who opened the door mentioned that he went to the "Inland Empire", indicating that he found the "entrance".

(2) At 1 hour and 57 minutes, a woman came to the house of Huanxiang Su (the person was looking at it with silk at 1 hour and 49 minutes, the house number was 1358, as can be seen from the clothes), a woman came to see In the past watch, she mentioned the man who lived here, Su's husband. The man next door is called Kerim, which means a person who deceives people to become a soldier. This Kerim is also the man named "Phantom", who kidnapped the mentally retarded person to be a performer. Why is it mentally retarded? At 1 hour and 44 minutes, the person said "it's a little dangerous", and then a bald head accompanies him to the toilet. The bald head suddenly came out and said that there was no paper, and then at 1 hour and 45 minutes, the bald head can be seen with him. Come out, this man is tying a leash (can't take care of himself), then the man who looks like Smithy says he is very good at taking care of animals in the circus, 1 hour 45 minutes 30 seconds you can see a teddy bear behind him being abandoned, this man No love at all, his real job is to abuse and look after the people who make money for his performances, not animals.

(3) At 2 hours 1 minute the Polish woman came to find the man who looked like Smithy, but he couldn't see the woman, he was not blind, at 2 hours 2 minutes 14 seconds it was a man's perspective.



18. At 2 hours and 8 minutes, Su came down from AXXONN and saw himself smiling strangely on the other side, and at the same time saw Billy's wife rushing towards her, feeling bad, and at the same time, smiling strangely, he also saw another Bi Lee's wife. Surrounded by a group of prostitutes, this Su is different from the Su in the acting, let's call it a phantom Su, the scene where she exists should always be with that group of sluts.



19. Sue saw Poland before through that hole, and the curtains opened to point to the door of the mansion where the accident happened. I really don't have the energy to sort out the two questions about who saw who through the hole, which Su and when did they get down from the AXXONN building.



At 20.2 hours and 14 minutes, the real body of the woman in red with only one hand finally appeared. She pointed to the exit, but Su's eyes saw another entrance, and she hypnotized Su. She said that the first thing she said: "Someone told me you can help me" was the woman in red who hypnotized her. The woman in red couldn't tell who it was.



21. In the last scene, the time has come after midnight, that is, when revenge will occur, and the time has changed from 12:13 to 12:22. Judging from this time change, the scene that happened should be real. It says LB, it's already there when talking to MR.K, and there's a green coat under the place where the gun was held. After killing the Phantom, she came to room "47", another name for the script.



22. At this point we think of Mr. K's call: "Take the horse to the well he is here somewhere, that's for sure, it's red", and at the same time Mr. K took Nikki up to the second floor under the blue light, and she Phantom found.



24. There is also an important character throughout the film, and he is Janek, the fat bald man in a suit in the opening scene, when the Phantom says he wants to find an "entrance", he says he knows, and asks "you want to enter?". Explain that in a certain "Inland Empire" story structure, this person is an unknown and authoritative existence in it. At 2 hours and 4 minutes, he persuaded Smithy of old Poland to go fast, and he should be a positive force in it. He takes the old Smithy to find the Phantom.



23. Important question: Who killed whom in the days of old Poland?

The first is a Carolina-like woman who, prayed to be haunted by nightmares, kills someone with a screwdriver. On the way, met the Phantom, the Phantom said that someone had died, and that person had been with her, implying that the person had an affair with her. The deceased looked a lot like Nicky's husband and suffered a head injury, and the man just abandoned the woman whose back looked very much like Doris. The woman claimed that she would not give her the child. The woman who was killed and asked "who is she", "who is she" implies that this woman has nothing to do with the story, she is just the wife of Carolina's lover who was mistaken for the lover who killed her.



24. The last Japanese young woman mentioned that "he is very good at taking care of animals", and took care of the previous 1 hour and 45 minutes. The Smithy-like person "I am very good at caring for animals". Seeing the tail from here, it should be in In the filmed film, although the behavior inside is bizarre. Then the new question comes again, why is the picnic so unlike the real scene, is it a real movie shooting scene, and why Carolina also asked the same question to the two women later "Tell me are you guys right?" seen me"?

When Sue saw the red ketchup on Smithy's stomach, a scene of Carolina praying suddenly flashed before her eyes, and there was a connection between the two of them.



25. Rabbits are about red, green, and time. The pink rabbit on the right should be concealed, and the one on the left is cheating (answering the phone, etc., there are many). I think the most primitive form of the essence of the story is that a green one needs to come in, and the image of Mr.K is transformed into a rabbit head in a suit, implying "lead the horse to the well", he will put "the one in the green coat" people" brought in.

And what Rabbit said before: "It's the one who is red, who talks about time, who wears a green coat." The red is the Phantom, which can be seen in the scene where he appeared before. It contains a red light bulb, and from the hairstyle and image, it is the same image as the Phantom that finally met at the door of 47, and the previous image in Old Poland is different. The "LB" on Su's hand plus a red bar means "light bulb" and "red". She opened the drawer and took out the pistol. Under the pistol was a green coat. And this scene she has seen on the screen of the movie theater, this is the hint given to her by the whole "Mara to the Well", and finally she, as the person "wearing a green coat", entered room 47 where the rabbit was, breaking the curse cycle.



26. About what was seen from the hole?

At 1 hour and 17 minutes, we can see that in the blurred illusion, we can clearly see that the hour hand is moving counterclockwise. I don’t know if this means that this is a way of looking at the past. These small details may be the key.



27. Look at 1 hour and 59 minutes, the woman wearing the watch first mentioned the man here, said "the outstanding debt is still unpaid", and asked two men, the first man lived here, that is, Smithy, the second is the man next door, Kerim, the Phantom's real name in old Poland. This is the first entanglement story of Old Poland.



The candle ceremony in the painting that appeared at 28.2 hours and 4 minutes is exactly the same as the ceremony given to Requiem Su by the black women at the end of the film, but with a lighter.



The woman who appeared at 29.2 hours and 11 minutes and asked: "Tell me if you ever knew me" was the same woman who appeared in Smithy's room in old Poland at 2 hours and 2 minutes. At 2 hours and 2 minutes, the old man asked the old Polish Smithy if he worked for whom, and he replied yes, apparently the man mentioned above was working for the Phantom at the Baltic Circus, taking care of the animals, and the man who was chasing him was the Phantom .



At 30.1 hours and 29 minutes, it was still Nikki, and the group of women disappeared as soon as the thought passed. Combining the back, I found the common words of every cheating person "Tell me if you ever knew me", "I'm so scared, where am I". (Carolina at 2 hours 11 minutes, Mysterious Woman at 2 hours 2 minutes, Nicky at 2 hours 7 minutes), and this sentence appeared in the mouth of a rabbit in a suit.

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Extended Reading
  • Griffin 2022-04-23 07:02:53

    I didn't finish watching Shet.

  • Annette 2022-04-21 09:02:43

    To be honest, I don't understand, I'll read it again after a while

Inland Empire quotes

  • Nikki: The ambulance guys, they say: "What the fuck happened here?" I say: "He come to a reapin' what he had been sowin', that's what." They say: "Fucker been sowing some kind of heavy shit..."

  • Nikki: Bam! I Kicked him straight in the balls so hard they go crawling into his brain for refuge - he went down like a two dollar whore.