[Boris Groys at www.SCHNITT.de on INLAND EMIRE]
The new film by David Lynch, INLAND EMPIRE is certainly a masterpiece - a Encyclopedia of all methods of modern cinema, which will play without any doubt an outstanding place in Film Studies. It is this formal side, which stands above all. Otherwise, the film seems rather dark, to be puzzling at first glance. This impression, however, deceptive. INLAND EMPIRE much rather make it clear that is left unsaid in earlier works of Lynch.
all titles from David Lynch are about people in a state of exposure to the other, Inhumane - from the outside, but primarily from within. Since fighting the forces of mercy to the forces of evil, the man appears in part as a pawn in part as the embodiment of these forces. Lynch believes this case clearly not in the possibility of a final reconciliation and harmony.
Lynch turns but different movies, but he always repeated the same conflict. The time in Lynch's films is circular. It rotates in a circle - the circle of the passions of the risks, the opportunities now to return to basic figures, back to basic situations repeatedly. This is it is the eternal recurrence of the same. It is characterized primarily of repetitive and insistent, that Lynch's work. The evil spirits are always there - they can be appeased neither defeat nor definitive. , an Empire, will be the sovereign of the people and must not, but - These spirits are rather an Inland Empire in the psyche of every man. Nun: But where are all the evil spirits? Because they can be sold by any psychoanalysis, they must have a trans-individual, genuine foreign origin. Namely one has the feeling that the characters in Lynch's films, although in reality the U.S. located, but at the same time are "not quite there". Rather, they are "Haunted" possessed by spirits, who need not be individual, but if you will, world-historical ghosts. But now the mystery of the earlier films by Lynch is finally solved: evil spirits come from Poland and, in general, from Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe is the geopolitical absolutely uncanny - and is the collective unconscious of the civilized West. The unconscious speaks Polish.
such a thing could be supposed earlier. Although most of the heroes of the Lynch movies are brave Americans, the forces of which they are possessed, apparently of a different, non-American origin, for they follow a non-American logic - the logic of totalitarianism, the uncontrollable force of blind fate. The geo-political positioning of this logic is very clear when you look at the photos taken in the Lynch recently in Poland. Although there are apparently pictures of ordinary industrial installations, the viewer - reminds primarily at Auschwitz, but - also because of the inscriptions in German, which are found in these photos again and again, and because a certain atmosphere which pervades subtly also to the expulsion of Germans after the Second World War, to the lost world of the East German. In this context I believe that a photo image from New York particularly interesting, included the Lynch and the city is behind a mesh fence that looks like a concentration camp grill. The sense of historical risk also becomes clear from a drawing Lynch, which is a typical American house, which is immersed in gray and surrounded by airplanes, rockets, flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects and is obviously threatened. The line between consciousness and unconsciousness at Lynch coincides with the boundary of the Cold War between West and East, which is not between different species of the eastern totalitarianism clearly distinguished. The human psyche is deeply divided accordingly between West and East, it is in perpetual cold war with itself as a Westerner you can not live in peace and sleep, because their own dreams to speak with an Eastern European accent and Eastern European look depressed, desolate. Man, the outer empire but not enough to govern effectively when the inner empire of dreams not under the control of its wake can bring subjectivity. The heroine of INLAND EMPIRE solve this challenge to the traditional American way: She shoots her Polish unconscious. A good solution. In today's post-communist Eastern Europe, it is quite feasible. The question that remains is whether, in other regions outside Europe, eg in Iraq, works just as well.
Boris Groys © www.SCHNITT.de 2007th At the request of Mr. Lynch, the attribution "Inland Empire" in the Inland Empire has been changed.
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