Attempt of Experience Through a Mastermind.
Written and Directed by: David Lynch.
Starring: Laura Dern and Justin Theroux.
4 Years ago I watched a movie. In that movie when Naomi Watts wakes up and her neighbor calls her name as Diane, which previously was Betty and Diane is living in a filthy barren house wearing a dirty stinky bathrobe instead of a fancy silkish red bathrobe worn by Betty while living in a fabulous LA apartment during first half of the movie. It is important to mention that both Diane and Betty were played by Naomi Watts and all these changes in the story were without any warning, and that is when I realised I have to watch this movie again. So I watched it immediately after it was over, then again and again and again trying to figure out what is the basic plot. It played in my mind for months and this became the movie I have viewed THE maximum number of times ever. I spent hours and days watching it and theorizing it. In the end I gave up when I realised that this movie is all about the experience of watching it. The name of the movie was Mulholland Drive (2001).
Enter stage 10 of a hollywood studio where 'On High in Blue Tomorrows' is in production. Laura Dern (as Nikki) is playing Susan and Justin Theroux (as Devon) is playing Billy. The director of the movie during rehearsals reveals a fact about the movie that it was in production before. There was something 'in the story' that stopped the earlier production by previous filmakers. Now baffled as they can be, both Nikki and Devon get intrigued. The production of 'Blue Tomorrows' continues and strange things start to happen. First one is suspicion of invasion of privacy on stage 10 during rehearsals. Devon follows the 'sound of footsteps' but finds no one. Then follows a series of scenes of a lady watching a movie, a group of whores, shooting of Blue Tomorrows, a cold and gloomy street where people talk Polish, three Rabbits and Nikki and Devon. These scenes are connected to each other either by same dialogues, same characters, same gestures, same ambience or a watch. Because Lynch creates these images which require your attention, it furthur helps to get confused and curious as to ask question what happened next? This realization of connection and curiosity happens at every single point of the movie. Not to mention there is non-linearity as well. Now to explain how scenes are possibly connected will spoil the movie.
4 Years ago I watched a movie. In that movie when Naomi Watts wakes up and her neighbor calls her name as Diane, which previously was Betty and Diane is living in a filthy barren house wearing a dirty stinky bathrobe instead of a fancy silkish red bathrobe worn by Betty while living in a fabulous LA apartment during first half of the movie. It is important to mention that both Diane and Betty were played by Naomi Watts and all these changes in the story were without any warning, and that is when I realised I have to watch this movie again. So I watched it immediately after it was over, then again and again and again trying to figure out what is the basic plot. It played in my mind for months and this became the movie I have viewed THE maximum number of times ever. I spent hours and days watching it and theorizing it. In the end I gave up when I realised that this movie is all about the experience of watching it. The name of the movie was Mulholland Drive (2001).
Enter stage 10 of a hollywood studio where 'On High in Blue Tomorrows' is in production. Laura Dern (as Nikki) is playing Susan and Justin Theroux (as Devon) is playing Billy. The director of the movie during rehearsals reveals a fact about the movie that it was in production before. There was something 'in the story' that stopped the earlier production by previous filmakers. Now baffled as they can be, both Nikki and Devon get intrigued. The production of 'Blue Tomorrows' continues and strange things start to happen. First one is suspicion of invasion of privacy on stage 10 during rehearsals. Devon follows the 'sound of footsteps' but finds no one. Then follows a series of scenes of a lady watching a movie, a group of whores, shooting of Blue Tomorrows, a cold and gloomy street where people talk Polish, three Rabbits and Nikki and Devon. These scenes are connected to each other either by same dialogues, same characters, same gestures, same ambience or a watch. Because Lynch creates these images which require your attention, it furthur helps to get confused and curious as to ask question what happened next? This realization of connection and curiosity happens at every single point of the movie. Not to mention there is non-linearity as well. Now to explain how scenes are possibly connected will spoil the movie.
Now after writing these two paragraphs I am sure I got you confused as to ask me what is Inland Empire all about. The tagline says "A Woman In Trouble". David Lynch summed the whole story up in this one line. Because there in no way anybody can write a review of any David Lynch movie. His movies do not conform to any other movies that have a plot and a set of characters that play what they are meant to be. Lynch always defies these rules and has his own vision. If you are looking for a plot or an explanation then rather do not bother. Because Inland Empire is about 'the experience of watching and its effects on the viewer'. In his autobographical book Lynch on Lynch, where the author interviews him about his movies and paintings. When they talk about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Lynch said that he recieved hundreds of letters from the girls who saw this movie and who had some personal experience of physical abuse from parents at some point during their lives. All those girls asked Lynch 'how could he create an exact feeling of what they went through?'. This itself says that his movies create a particular emotion that can only be felt and experienced. He takes you on a ride and you just see all those strinkingly unforgettable images, feel those emotions, hear those extraordinary series of sounds and come out of the theatre realising that even the front door of the auditorium looks different than when you came in. This is the effect due to 'Lynch-stinged' mind.
My Rating: 9/10.
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