Inland Empire **
David Lynch, 2006
US
@ home on DVD
The lingering composite image I'm left with is of a slow zoom/track down a dark tunnel-like hallway either toward Laura Dern or from her characters' point-of-view. The soundtrack is low, perhaps nearly imperceptible synth tones.
If Eraserhead is about the repulsive horror of prospective fatherhood, this would seem to be similarly about romantic attachment or the commitment to depiction thereof onscreen, along with a suggestion that maybe there is no difference. The Greek chorus of prostitutes even gets the relatively chaste and socially acceptable Laura Dern to utter, "I'm a whore," as if the very act of joining with someone else is a sordid subjugation of the self.
The characters and story bleed both ways through the screen, though mostly it's the characters and situations from the script invading "real life," suggestive that the project they're working on was a remake never finished. Perhaps the conclusion simply occurred on the other side of a wormhole. But then, couldn't all possible habitable realities be described as such given the constraints of mortality? It's pretty clear from the beginning of the film that time is in flux, or perhaps that multiple strands of time are continually available, and perhaps even the characters are shifting form, not just between person and character, but perhaps between different bodies.
See also: IMDb | Metacritic
David Lynch, 2006
US
@ home on DVD
The lingering composite image I'm left with is of a slow zoom/track down a dark tunnel-like hallway either toward Laura Dern or from her characters' point-of-view. The soundtrack is low, perhaps nearly imperceptible synth tones.
If Eraserhead is about the repulsive horror of prospective fatherhood, this would seem to be similarly about romantic attachment or the commitment to depiction thereof onscreen, along with a suggestion that maybe there is no difference. The Greek chorus of prostitutes even gets the relatively chaste and socially acceptable Laura Dern to utter, "I'm a whore," as if the very act of joining with someone else is a sordid subjugation of the self.
The characters and story bleed both ways through the screen, though mostly it's the characters and situations from the script invading "real life," suggestive that the project they're working on was a remake never finished. Perhaps the conclusion simply occurred on the other side of a wormhole. But then, couldn't all possible habitable realities be described as such given the constraints of mortality? It's pretty clear from the beginning of the film that time is in flux, or perhaps that multiple strands of time are continually available, and perhaps even the characters are shifting form, not just between person and character, but perhaps between different bodies.
See also: IMDb | Metacritic
Labels: 2 Stars, 2000s, David Lynch, US
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