Comments on: Best of the Decade Derby: Live-blogging Inland Empire

By: Traveller_Adventure

Traveller_Adventure — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:28:00 +0000

Great post, really help me alot. Thanks.

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By: Flotsam & Jetsum XXVIII « Minty’s Menagerie

Flotsam & Jetsum XXVIII « Minty’s Menagerie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:52:48 +0000

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By: Sally Jones

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By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:39:16 +0000

Matt, I like your comment very much. Even if I agree with you that Lynch's movies, and especially this one, are specifically trying to avoid specific narrative cohesion, in a broader sense they are telling fables, and the major one that Lynch has continued to push harder and harder from TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME onward is the idea of trauma splintering women's psyches, forcing escape and self-denial and fantasy, which results in these expressionistic narratives.

By: alsolikelife

alsolikelife — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:20:15 +0000

that is a pretty awesome hypothesis, Matt, certainly makes me admire the film more. Maybe a couple more scenes with the Polish prostitutes would have brought this mirrored narrative out more; the whole Polish side of the film felt underdeveloped to me.

By: Ryland Walker Knight

Ryland Walker Knight — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:59:24 +0000

Gosh, we sound kinda smart. Maybe we should, like, write a book or something. (Thanks, Kev, for having me/us over; it was fun, as ever.)

By: The Sheila Variations

The Sheila Variations — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:19:58 +0000

Blogroll…

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By: Matt Noller

Matt Noller — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:50:44 +0000

Very cool write-up, guys. Certainly one of my

My reading on the Polish strand – which reading, admittedly, is attempting to apply a level of narrative cohesion that Lynch clearly doesn't give a shit about – is that it's the most “real” of the film's narrative strands. It seems to me that, in terms of “solving” the narrative (why would you want to do that?), the Polish prostitute that we see sitting on the hotel bed watching the rabbits/Dern story on TV is the central “real” character. She's trying to escape by imagining herself as an actress, her life as a movie – herself as Dern, who is herself imagining herself as a character. Of course, the threads start to dissolve, blend, break down, freak out.

Or something. And ultimately, who cares? It's beautiful, scary, radical, funny, brilliant, and I think on some level it always makes sense, even when it doesn't.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:51 +0000

Haven't even read this yet, but I wish I could have made this.