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[Andreas Borcholte in the mirror over INLAND EMPIRE]


With INLAND EMPIRE is adopted by the American director David Lynch once from the constraints of the cinema business. Sense seekers beware: This film will confuse you - and disappoint.

With cinema in the classical sense to do nothing and Inland Empire but it could be the only truly artistic movie that this Cinema year will produce. Given the wealth of the Association offers, nesting, implied metaphors and symbols, close-ups of Laura Dern's trembling face, which seems sometimes sorrow, sometimes fear, sometimes expressing lust, the sheer force of the impressions that flicker in about three film hours beyond the canvas , one remains perplexed back as a critic. The director has consistently evaded the interpretation methods of narrative cinema.

This director is David Lynch, is 61 years old and answered in a soft voice when he again journalists begging desperately for answers to those questions that leave his films. "The cinema, the audience in kidnap a world beyond the intellect, in which they totally have to trust their own intuitions. This is not about to understand something, but to learn something, "Lynch said recently in Der Spiegel interview. Beyond the intellect, that is as much as the head, and let your senses run free.

One has to know that Lynch has been doing since the early seventies, Transcendental Meditation, learn a relaxation technique that aims at a kind of enlightenment by one advances in meditation within their own mind about the so-called "unity consciousness". Those who reach this stage exist for the Terms reality and fiction no longer. Space, time, dream and waking state merge to an all-pervasive experience.

The knowledge of this method can help to interpret the recent work of Lynch. Even if this is just another grasping at straws of meaning, perhaps, a last gasp of a meager intellect. Because cognitive facilitate the flight offers in the content description of INLAND EMPIRE little. There is no coherent narrative, but only one plot in a plot in a plot. It is towed by actress Laura Dern, as it was to sit exams to wake up from a nightmare a mad professor has planted in her subconscious as a guinea pig.

At the beginning of the film, as Lynch wanted to lure us on the wrong track, yet all seems straightforward: the forgotten actress with the scary name Nikki Grace (Dern) wants with her role in the film "On High In Blue Tomorrows "celebrate their comeback. What it late, perhaps too late to learn, is that the film, an evil tearjerker, shot once before in Poland, but never completed, was because the two leading actors were murdered.

When Nikki gets lost in the scenes of the film set and suddenly in a completely changed Reality is again, you think you are still on familiar terrain Lynch, which was believed to have earned through persistent view the encrypted late works "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive" bit by bit. But soon after places, time and activity levels change so quickly appear and disappear Polish Mafiosi, sitcom actor with rabbit heads and harpyienhafte whores seemingly incoherent that it feels like poor Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz ": Suddenly, we are not in Kansas anymore - and the tropical cyclone named Lynch with us like this on a different level of consciousness.

Nikki Grace has both the history of the original performer pair and the film characters and her own bent career experience, and at the end when she dying with a screw driver in the bowels is between bums on wall of a house on Hollywood Boulevard, you think again, INLAND EMPIRE to have understood: as had verkünstelte parable of the murderous film industry, suffering from a newly discovered miracle child to Lynch in the late eighties. And as late, reconciling tribute to women who suffered in his previous films, often under his sadism.

That just embodies this character is Laura Dern, only makes sense: Like no other of Lynch's actresses she had in "Blue Velvet" and "Wild at Heart" serve as a projection of male fantasies. Lynch now you are a multiple interspersed, very Kafka-esque sequence in which she tells a disinterested lawyer or detective in a narrow garret their suffering. The lethargic the guy, the more angry, the woman spent sitting in front of him.

Laura Dern, this blonde, whose beauty, consisting of an angular face and a wicked mouth slipped, INLAND EMPIRE owes much of its fascination. It almost seems as if her offer Lynch just a canvas on which they can enjoy themselves without reserve. It is a pity that for this extreme-performance spectacle that has to do with self-experience to a similar amount as with experimental theater, has received no recognition of the film industry. But "where David Lynch and Laura Dern in" Inland Empire "are executed arrived, there are no Oscars anymore," the critic George Seeßlen wrote in a recent essay on the film.

is actually no understanding, but only an ambivalent experience left: The filmmaker has for his departure from the conventional operation independent film made by almost all the rules of representation, a freedom which, among other things, the most grueling Length of the film with the result. The film was shot not on film, but with a digital video camera. Sales and production were the first time alone in his hand, has helped his wife, Mary Sweeney. Much of what ended up later in the film encamped for months in digital storage, or ran as a mini-series on Lynch's hyper-active site. The future is truly independent of this will bring in the independents in the overlapping media streams of the network, the "artists with completely new forms of expression." understand

And we must not only as a film INLAND EMPIRE, but as to all sides open art installation. As an experiment, which uses the screen only as a springboard to develop in the minds of the audience an individual life of its own. Enjoy self-awareness.


Andreas Borcholte © 2007 THE MIRROR. At the request of Mr. Lynch in the mirror again given attribution "Inland Empire" in the Inland Empire has been changed.