[Rüdiger country in search of David Lynch and Telepolis INLAND EMPIRE]
A young dark-haired girl in an old hotel suite at the edge of the double bed and watches television. A tear flowing from her eye. On TV Soap is a remarkable man with three figures in costume and rabbit heads. We see a needle in a record groove, and the beam of a receiving spotlight. Another woman, blond and not very young, receives in the huge hall of her house, an elderly woman, apparently their new neighbor. The butler brings coffee. Soon the trivial, a little intrusive small talk turns to the old disagreeable. Obviously she knows too much about the life of their host and uninvited she begins to comment on this speaks to her Eastern European accent threatening prophecies from - possibly a witch ...
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These enigmatic scenes such as those of David Lynch's cinema so typical, the movie starts: oppressive, while full of seductive power they pull the viewer into it immediately in Lynch Ville, private, unique cosmos of this groundbreaking theater artist, his medium has an effect on how a few in the past two decades. And it begins a multi-convoluted story that joins the doppelgänger motif with the "film within a film" genre to a modern fairy tale - as poetic and as brutal as the tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Inland Empire is the name of a first place in the county of San Bernardino Valley in Southern California, near Los Angeles. This is David Lynch's new film but not to do so. There are more inner landscapes that mapped the director this time too.
As in almost all his films since "Blue Velvet" and this time there is a "Woman in Trouble" woman at the center, a woman in difficulty. It is the blonde from the beginning, a once successful actress who is hoping for a comeback. On the surface, says Inland Empire, the story of the woman married to a wealthy, violent Polish actress Nikki (Laura Dern) that accompanies the film is now in the following on their journey between nightmare and idyllic, desire and madness: A grown old Snow White on the escape from the evil reality by including in seven whores consolation.
In her new project called "On High in Blue Tomorrows" plays Nikki under one played by Jeremy Irons Director an adulteress, and her hubby is afraid that it might in real life a bit with her male co-Part Devon (Justin Theroux start). He threatened Devon. In addition, a mysterious history provides additional power: The film is a remake of a script whose previous film by the death of the two main characters was canceled. And Nikki is one with her role, Sue cheating ...
Around here now mix these different levels of narration and more, continually re-opened more and more. What is reality and what dreams, what is past, present or future, is how often in Lynch, the audience increasingly indistinguishable. This should be, because Lynch is not about stories and meaning in the conventional understanding. Lynch's associative method uses the resources of narrative cinema, only to lead to this absurdity. Again and again he leads the viewer the illusion as the nature of art in mind, in a double movement, he pulls you into a scene in and pushes you back in one.
As in "Mulholland Drive" is Hollywood, while the actual film, the background against which one has to understand the film. Inland Empire opens to a Space for reflection on the cinema and this corresponds with other U.S. films of the past months, with similar DePalma's underrated "The Black Dahlia" and "Hollywoodland." Also, Inland Empire, the cinema shows, as is related violence, the violence produced by myths and the myths of violence. Like them, he develops as a Hollywood hell, as the scene of an inner apocalypse. The structuring of content theme, always latent resonate, sometimes quite explicitly pervasive is the violence against women.
What Laura Dern also known as Nikki Grace everything here is subject to, or exceeds the fate of Betty Elms, the young provincial beauty, in "Mulholland Drive" happiness Hollywood tried, played by Naomi Watts, so captivating: it bled to death on the "Walk of Fame", having a screwdriver was jammed into the abdomen. Ironically, on the marble Star of the early horror stars Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) - "L'amour", what a name! - The age-old was still playing in 1987 in the horror film "Creepshow 2", a murder victim. Dying, she stumbles then also still on the marble star, Dorothy Stratten is dedicated to that actress who was murdered in 1981 by her husband. Both films - and in this respect, INLAND EMPIRE, the direct continuation of its predecessor - act of how much blood on Hollywood stuck.
(... to be ... comtinued)
Rüdiger Suchsland © 2007 Telepolis. At the request of Mr. Lynch, the attribution in Inland Empire Inland Empire has been changed.
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