242 on 22/10/2008 at 23:03
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So having a score by Angelo Badalamenti automatically equals a Twin Peak-esque experience?
AW has very similar setting too.
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On a related note, Inland Empire was such a let down.
I agree. It's just hastily sewed together fragments shot in various time periods during like 5 or more years. And I didn't like he moved to digital camera, celluloid picture is so much deeper.
Aja on 23/10/2008 at 04:21
Inland Empire is one of the most frightening movies ever made. It reminded me of a hundred bad dreams merged, and they managed to sustain that terrible apprehension for almost three hours (it was a bit long, but that was necessary to make the viewer feel as though they were plunging deeper into insanity -- to the point where you can't remember what it was like before).
EvaUnit02 on 23/10/2008 at 04:29
Inland Empire was an over-long exercise in self-indulgence. The editing was appalling; all those drawn out reaction shots, Jesus.
Really Lynch peaked with the honest simplicity of The Straight Story, that film was nothing but raw emotion.
Aja on 23/10/2008 at 04:36
Whatever man, it filled a void for a me (I had been imagining a similar kind of film for years, though I could obviously never actually make it). When Laura Dern said gawd this is just like dialogue from our script! I fuckin lost it. And then Beck starts playing and I felt as though Lynch had snuck into my head and messed around with the wiring. I can understand people thinking it's self-indulgent, but man, Lynch NEEDED to have free reign for once. He's a master of tension and suspense, and he's never showcased them so effectively. It's a great big dark sprawling exploration of the human psyche. Kind of a sequel to Eraserhead, if you think about it.
It shouldn't be compared to the Straight Story at all; rather, see it as a piece of experimental art.
demagogue on 23/10/2008 at 05:33
I'm not really seeing the Lynch touch so much.
Whereas I'm seeing Silent Hill in spades.
Besides, Lynch was always relatively light with the actual action ... It's always about the build up to it, or skirting the psychological edges around it. And this is a shooter after all (right?).
Yakoob on 23/10/2008 at 05:39
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
The editing was appalling; all those drawn out reaction shots, Jesus.
You clearly missed the point, then.
Saying that, it was way too long. And just like with all Lynch movies, I completely love the first half, but don't give two craps about the second.
Aja on 23/10/2008 at 05:43
Not even the climax? Plus there was that one horrifying shot of Laura Dern coming up the walkway (which actually tied-in to the climax in a very strange and unconscious way)... what can I say, I loved it :D
Yakoob on 23/10/2008 at 06:15
See Aja, I am a weirdo and thus I completely adore the odd, unsettling feeling Lynch's movies have. However, this feeling works only because the world created by Lynch, while twisted and creepy, has a grounding in reality. Our reality. We can relate to it, that is why we find it so unsettling. However, about halfway through his movies, he drops the connection to our world and goes into a completely abstract lala land. This new world is no longer similar to ours, we can no longer picture ourselves there and, as such, the actions and events lose their effect on you.
At least, that's how it is for me.
Aja on 23/10/2008 at 06:39
That's true, and I agree with you to a point. But I think with Inland Empire, the transition happened so gradually that three quarters the way through you suddenly realize what's going on and it's really frightening. And by that time I was busy trying to piece everything together and work it all out in my mind, so I remained interested, despite the intense length and ultimate incoherence.
And I guess I've seen this film like four times now... so maybe I shouldn't be the one to argue in its favour; there's definitely a bias ;)
Yakoob on 23/10/2008 at 07:37
On a similar note, have you seen Gozu? It's very David Lynch-esque movie (although I think it came out before him) that, while very odd, never loses the touch with reality I mentioned in my previous post. One of my favs.
