[Alexandra Stäheli in NZZ on INLAND EMPIRE]
David Lynch has ever really done anything else than to use self-epigonism? Had not already, "Eraserhead" as in a shell already Lynchsche the whole universe of fears and scary, to contain evil, beyond, unconscious and threadbare? And have the honor to the Lynchianer ever otherwise known as a review of occult practices that the whole matter in the light of psychoanalysis, numerology and Mobius strips a transcendent meaning has been extracted?
Well, also recently, by the director as "work in progress called film, INLAND EMPIRE of at least a nearly six-year development period behind them waiting, again with the Aficionados defended so hot by skeptics as a long-winded paranoia diagnosed Lynch Ingredients on, as there are: the director for Mystery performances cope modeled Actor, time loops, tell logical paradoxes and personality divisions; allegories such as nested, the people alienated houses, consisting mainly of red curtains and an array of doors and dark rooms - and a beguiling , banal myth of the creation of evil (and unconscious).
And already we are in the middle of the history of the once celebrated actress Nikki Grace (pulling out all the stops: Laura Dern), receives the new film directed by Kingsley Stewart (Jeremy Irons) a chance for a comeback. Just before the start of filming experience Nikki and co-star Devon Berk (Justin Theroux), that the film is actually a remake of an old German-Polish film project, which was not completed because the two main characters died in the shooting. And so it is for, as it has just come in a Lynch-Mystery-Thriller: Hardly are Nikki and Devon in front of the camera, begins the increasingly acting hypnotized Actress, is to transform not only their character's Susan Blue, but apparently also the former actress and their role - for now, like Alice on a bad trip in the wonderland of their own soul by a seemingly inescapable maze of film and reality, dream, predestination and the past to overthrow .
As in "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive" is us presented Hollywood with a good sense of malice to be a nightmare factory, which at the mingling of the layers of reality - the power of simulation, as the philosopher Jean Baudrillard would have said - strong participates. It is of course no coincidence that one of the many Nikki's finally on the Walk of Fame is stabbed, and unfortunately it was exactly on the star of the star Dorothy Lamour, the advanced age in the horror film "Creepshow 2" was still playing a housewife who is killed. . .
And so you would have for an Oscar in the face of Lynch's work first and foremost given to the figure of the self-similarity, which provides in INLAND EMPIRE sometimes for fun and bizarre moments (such as the scathing parody of American television reality in the form of a hare-Soap) in the 180-minute epic showers at times but also has to serve for something tough and cheap darkening effects. And anyway: why the subconscious speaks suddenly Polish? Lynch says only: 47
Alexandra Stäheli © 2007 Neue Zürcher Zeitung. At the request of Mr. Lynch, the attribution "Inland Empire" in the Inland Empire has been changed.
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