Just watched the new David Lynch film, Inland Empire, which is on general release here for a very short time.
It was three hours of intense semi-coherent Lynchian madness. I enjoyed it. I believe that Lynch has a narrative that locks it all together; I don’t believe his is any more valid than yours or mine, because he has talked about more or less making it up as he went along.
In a sense, it’s the same movie as Mulholland Drive, only longer and more incomprehensible.
(FWIW, today I think the crying girl and Nikki were both real. I think the crying girl imagined herself in Nikki’s life as a way of resolving her problems, and then the real Nikki experienced the crying girl’s milieu invading her life. Also, Rabbits.)
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I reckon this is Lynch’s best film, his ultimate statement to date, the movie he’s been working towards for the previous 20 years of film making.
Mulholland Dr. was the same movie as Lost Highway, in a lot of ways. Except that MD was a lot more straightforward in its narrative than either LH or IE – I had MD’s plot & lots of its subtext worked out after only 2 viewings!