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US Mall 1 - David Lynch's Inland Empire (Limited Edition Two-Disc Set)
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List Price: $29.98
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Manufacturer: Absurda / Rhino
Starring: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux
Directed By: David Lynch
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Inland
EAN: 0858334001145
Format: Color
Label: Absurda / Rhino
Manufacturer: Absurda / Rhino
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Absurda / Rhino
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-08-14
Running Time: 179
Studio: Absurda / Rhino
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Multiple Selves/Narratives Loosely Linked
Comment: This is really good.
Yes, three hours is a long time to sit still so I would recommend watching it in small doses and letting it work its way into your imagination a little at a time.
First of all this is the work of a master interrogator of the subconscious. What Lynch captures is the way the subconscious constructs its own realities and selves out of the strata of inchoate memories, feelings, and desires. But the self is never altogether stable nor completely secure for those memories and feelings and desires are always shifting and giving way to new memories, feelings, desires and selves.
In reality creative people (writers, directors, actors, painters, poets, ...) are always constructing and exploring the virtual worlds and selves that they create. This is their status quo. But what Lynch does is create a kind of paranoid fantasy world where his main character, Laura Dern, experiences multipe versions of herself amid multiple narratives. And she is powerless to choose between her actual self (if any version can be considered the authentic one) and the virtual self (or selves) that she is enacting or simply witnessing (its unclear whether she has any agency in this). All realities are equally real to her and as the film progresses she becomes more and more lost to any singular originary self.
One of her selves is a smoldering 1940's femme fatale that she is cast to play in a film within a film and another is a prim and pregnant barefoot housewife and another is a call girl in what looks like a Fiona Apple video but all are emanations from "Laura Dern's" own fragmented consciousness. Her 1940's self is helped along by a film script directed by film within a film director Jeremy Irons that requires/allows her to play the part of an adulterous southern belle but this is more than a mere role for the playing of it is informed by very real desires to rebel against the constraints and pressures of her more subdued self/reality and to enjoy in the hidden country of cinema and art and dreams what is taboo and what is forbidden without any inhibition whatsoever. But one or two selves or realites will not suffice...
Under her own watchful gaze her selves and realities continue to multiply. Almost like an audience member, or some impassive spectator to her own multiple performances, she witnesses her life become a kaliedoscopic swirl of virtual selves and realites with no actual center.
Identity crisis has never been so inticing, so sexy, so dangerous, so dizzying, and so creepy.
Lynch even throws in some Bunny theatre for good measure (perhaps as a kind of meta-comment on arts inability to make heads or tails of our chaotic existence).
This is intensely enjoyable for lovers of the avant-garde and/or lovers of psychological horror films like Polanski's Repulsion, Roeg's Don't Look Now, Kubrick's The Shining, and Lynch's own Mulholland Drive.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Some Kind of Modern Masterpeice
Comment: Lynch really out-did himself with this film.
1 minute short of 3 straight hours of abstract, non-linear, mind opening, mind blowing darkness...
Laura Dern's performance was astounding, and really shook my senses. The only reason she hasn't been recognized for this role, that I can think of, is that this film is so much to take in, that some people would find it hard to sit threw...mostly for 2 reasons. Because its sooo long and intense, and because it is honestly twisted and difficult to catch on to on a first-viewing basis. BUT, David Lynchs' work (with the exception of "Wild At Heart" and "Blue Velvet") is pretty much made to be watched more than once...
This is his most abstract film since "Eraserhead". It is honestly a modern masterpiece...especially after watching "Lynch (one)" and "Lynch 2" (2 is featured on the second disk of this film).
The second disk alone has enough mind bending features and featurettes to keep your brain boggled for hours.
Great Film and Great purchase!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dreams woven into a movie
Comment: This movie is experimental fiction in nature, closer to Eraserhead than Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks. As always, Lynch uses confusing imagery and haphazard plot direction throughout the movie, but this time he seems to be testing how far he can push the audience. This movie is both confusing, shocking, and at times, rather comical.
The number of complexities involved in the branching (and somewhat parallel) plot lines, and the fact that the movie itself is at least partly about making movies, make a synopsis virtually impossible to relate. I would be hard pressed to describe what this movie is about to a friend except to say that it is loosely about an actress in a movie that loses her ability to determine whether she is experiencing reality or in a movie.
The whole movie seems a lot like a series of dreams (or nightmares) that were woven together with a fictional backdrop in order to create a connection between the dreams.
This movie needs a few glasses of wine to go with it and it is somewhat enjoyable, especially if you like a movie like Eraserhead or Muholland Drive. If such movies only frustrate you, you may want to steer clear of this one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: poor sound bad picture
Comment: It is odd how few reviews mention the sound quality of this DVD: it is barely audible and you will have to turn it up maximum to actually hear something. Once you have sorted out the sound and sat through about half an hour you may note that you are not seeing much either: this is because it is either dark, or blurred or simply so obscure that there is simply not much to see. I do like David Lynch, I love Mulholland Drive and am a fan of Twin Peaks, but the sound and image on this DVD are obscure to say the least... leave alone the actual meaning of the movie, on which is it is hard to focus.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Meaningful. Beautiful. Magnum Opus.
Comment: Firt off, I need to say that I would never insult or ridicule anyone for liking or disliking this or any other film, nor would I put anyone down for not understanding a film(especially one such as this).However, to insist that this film means "Nothing" would seriously make me doubt your cognitive abilities.You can dislike a film, not understand it, even dislike it BECAUSE you didn't understand it, but you should at the very least be able to recognize and admit that repeating symbolism, imagery, and themes JUST MIGHT mean "Something" despite your inability to grasp it."I don't get it therefore it can't mean anything" is really quite infantile.
Now, as for the film itself, it's really quite difficult to describe the plot more concisely than the review and product description on the site.But suffice it to say, If you're a Lynch fan there is no reason you shouldn't love this film.However, I can see how the average non-Lynch fan might get a bit frustrated with this.This is a three hour cinematic delirium dream, filled with all things bizarre,intense and disturbing.This demands your full attention and is sure to engage the intellect and emotions, ultimately leaving you exhausted on both those fronts.At least it did me.This flick blew me away.I watched nearly all three hours of this with my brow knit,my jaw slack, and my hand over my mouth, my mind working doubletime to piece this awesome puzzle together.As exhausting as it was, it made the payoff at the end that much more intense and rewarding.
Now I'm in no way saying that I understood this movie completely, or even mostly, but complete intellectual understanding isn't necessary to connect with a movie like this on an intuitive and emotional level.
This is definitely a movie in need of repeat watchings and definitely worthy of them. David Lynch has produced a challenging movie worthy of the word "Epic". I wish I had dreams this haunting.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Multiple Selves/Narratives Loosely Linked
Comment: This is really good.
Yes, three hours is a long time to sit still so I would recommend watching it in small doses and letting it work its way into your imagination a little at a time.
First of all this is the work of a master interrogator of the subconscious. What Lynch captures is the way the subconscious constructs its own realities and selves out of the strata of inchoate memories, feelings, and desires. But the self is never altogether stable nor completely secure for those memories and feelings and desires are always shifting and giving way to new memories, feelings, desires and selves.
In reality creative people (writers, directors, actors, painters, poets, ...) are always constructing and exploring the virtual worlds and selves that they create. This is their status quo. But what Lynch does is create a kind of paranoid fantasy world where his main character, Laura Dern, experiences multipe versions of herself amid multiple narratives. And she is powerless to choose between her actual self (if any version can be considered the authentic one) and the virtual self (or selves) that she is enacting or simply witnessing (its unclear whether she has any agency in this). All realities are equally real to her and as the film progresses she becomes more and more lost to any singular originary self.
One of her selves is a smoldering 1940's femme fatale that she is cast to play in a film within a film and another is a prim and pregnant barefoot housewife and another is a call girl in what looks like a Fiona Apple video but all are emanations from "Laura Dern's" own fragmented consciousness. Her 1940's self is helped along by a film script directed by film within a film director Jeremy Irons that requires/allows her to play the part of an adulterous southern belle but this is more than a mere role for the playing of it is informed by very real desires to rebel against the constraints and pressures of her more subdued self/reality and to enjoy in the hidden country of cinema and art and dreams what is taboo and what is forbidden without any inhibition whatsoever. But one or two selves or realites will not suffice...
Under her own watchful gaze her selves and realities continue to multiply. Almost like an audience member, or some impassive spectator to her own multiple performances, she witnesses her life become a kaliedoscopic swirl of virtual selves and realites with no actual center.
Identity crisis has never been so inticing, so sexy, so dangerous, so dizzying, and so creepy.
Lynch even throws in some Bunny theatre for good measure (perhaps as a kind of meta-comment on arts inability to make heads or tails of our chaotic existence).
This is intensely enjoyable for lovers of the avant-garde and/or lovers of psychological horror films like Polanski's Repulsion, Roeg's Don't Look Now, Kubrick's The Shining, and Lynch's own Mulholland Drive.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Some Kind of Modern Masterpeice
Comment: Lynch really out-did himself with this film.
1 minute short of 3 straight hours of abstract, non-linear, mind opening, mind blowing darkness...
Laura Dern's performance was astounding, and really shook my senses. The only reason she hasn't been recognized for this role, that I can think of, is that this film is so much to take in, that some people would find it hard to sit threw...mostly for 2 reasons. Because its sooo long and intense, and because it is honestly twisted and difficult to catch on to on a first-viewing basis. BUT, David Lynchs' work (with the exception of "Wild At Heart" and "Blue Velvet") is pretty much made to be watched more than once...
This is his most abstract film since "Eraserhead". It is honestly a modern masterpiece...especially after watching "Lynch (one)" and "Lynch 2" (2 is featured on the second disk of this film).
The second disk alone has enough mind bending features and featurettes to keep your brain boggled for hours.
Great Film and Great purchase!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dreams woven into a movie
Comment: This movie is experimental fiction in nature, closer to Eraserhead than Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks. As always, Lynch uses confusing imagery and haphazard plot direction throughout the movie, but this time he seems to be testing how far he can push the audience. This movie is both confusing, shocking, and at times, rather comical.
The number of complexities involved in the branching (and somewhat parallel) plot lines, and the fact that the movie itself is at least partly about making movies, make a synopsis virtually impossible to relate. I would be hard pressed to describe what this movie is about to a friend except to say that it is loosely about an actress in a movie that loses her ability to determine whether she is experiencing reality or in a movie.
The whole movie seems a lot like a series of dreams (or nightmares) that were woven together with a fictional backdrop in order to create a connection between the dreams.
This movie needs a few glasses of wine to go with it and it is somewhat enjoyable, especially if you like a movie like Eraserhead or Muholland Drive. If such movies only frustrate you, you may want to steer clear of this one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: poor sound bad picture
Comment: It is odd how few reviews mention the sound quality of this DVD: it is barely audible and you will have to turn it up maximum to actually hear something. Once you have sorted out the sound and sat through about half an hour you may note that you are not seeing much either: this is because it is either dark, or blurred or simply so obscure that there is simply not much to see. I do like David Lynch, I love Mulholland Drive and am a fan of Twin Peaks, but the sound and image on this DVD are obscure to say the least... leave alone the actual meaning of the movie, on which is it is hard to focus.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Meaningful. Beautiful. Magnum Opus.
Comment: Firt off, I need to say that I would never insult or ridicule anyone for liking or disliking this or any other film, nor would I put anyone down for not understanding a film(especially one such as this).However, to insist that this film means "Nothing" would seriously make me doubt your cognitive abilities.You can dislike a film, not understand it, even dislike it BECAUSE you didn't understand it, but you should at the very least be able to recognize and admit that repeating symbolism, imagery, and themes JUST MIGHT mean "Something" despite your inability to grasp it."I don't get it therefore it can't mean anything" is really quite infantile.
Now, as for the film itself, it's really quite difficult to describe the plot more concisely than the review and product description on the site.But suffice it to say, If you're a Lynch fan there is no reason you shouldn't love this film.However, I can see how the average non-Lynch fan might get a bit frustrated with this.This is a three hour cinematic delirium dream, filled with all things bizarre,intense and disturbing.This demands your full attention and is sure to engage the intellect and emotions, ultimately leaving you exhausted on both those fronts.At least it did me.This flick blew me away.I watched nearly all three hours of this with my brow knit,my jaw slack, and my hand over my mouth, my mind working doubletime to piece this awesome puzzle together.As exhausting as it was, it made the payoff at the end that much more intense and rewarding.
Now I'm in no way saying that I understood this movie completely, or even mostly, but complete intellectual understanding isn't necessary to connect with a movie like this on an intuitive and emotional level.
This is definitely a movie in need of repeat watchings and definitely worthy of them. David Lynch has produced a challenging movie worthy of the word "Epic". I wish I had dreams this haunting.
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