Inland Empire

David Lynch brought into this world Inland Empire for simple but no less mind-fucking love of the game. Raw and haunting and, unbelievably more so than the two other projects I have seen of Lynch’s, utterly and debilitatingly confusing. I need a YouTube video essay on Inland Empire. At the end, I don’t know how much of the film and its story and its true sequence of events the viewer is meant to have absorbed, and maybe the intention is that, while the “truth” can be found somewhere, we are not meant to understand, not fully. Surreal and dream-like and horrifying, in its own, isolated way. An unreal performance from Laura Dern. Jaw-dropping. Truly, I hope she received her flowers for this role, in all its layers and intricacies. A bleak but beautiful score, at the hands of Mister Lynch, no less. I need to sit with my thoughts for longer, but for now, I am content with my first impression, however disturbed I am.