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Best Lynch film or best Lynch film?

Strangely fitting with all the Polacks on this board.

>>1692
Biggest pleb or biggest pleb?

>>1695
Could you explain what do you mean?

>>1696
I was merely asserting that you are a pleb.

>>1697
But for what reason do you think this?

>>1698
Ignore him

I've only seen this – once – when it came out on DVD.

I never read any analysis of the film, but do people actually try to "explain" the seeming randomness or is it considered to be a series disparate ideas that popped into Lynch's head?

>>1695
Were there not enough memes for you?

FUCK THAT SHIT PABST BLUE RIBBON AMIRITE? xdddd

Used to be a massive David Lynch fan going many a year back; loved Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and even Twin Peaks. I tried for many years to make sense of Inland Empire, everything from the sureal sitcom at the start to the ametuer dance rountines, but to no avail. At least with his non linear films like Mulholland Drive there were distinctive logical connection the viewer could make upon repeated viewings, no such luck here. For a period of time I thought that this material was above my understaning.

Eventually I realised the truth: It's nothing but pretentious, self absorbed crap, filmed on a shitty digital camera

Inland Empire can be described as a 'grind' to watch, 3 hours of nothing happens.

>>1779
Plebeian.

>>1779
>>1781
samefag

>>1779
>>1781
samefag

>>1708
Both. David Lynch pretty much says he improvised most of the things and your average joe would think about it as a random mess in Lynchs mind but if you would try to search, I am sure there are already tons of threads trying to try to give reason to all the stuff going on (and in most cases, they actually make great arguments). In my opinion, the film surely has an explanation. People say that it is overcomplicated and makes no sense etc. but they kind of forget that the same things were said when Eraserhead, Mullholand drive, Lost highway etc. came out. There surely must be an explanation, one that even Lynch probably isn't 100% sure of, but there is. Also IE has the advantage of being probably the most "obscure" Lynch film so you can be pretty sure that if youre talking to a person that already saw it and likes it, he probably knows cinematography pretty well.

>>1784
Gain some cinema knowledge (you clearly lack it), and I'll let you return to this film board.

>>1784
no u

>>1785
I thought David himself claimed that his films are creatures open diegetical creatures devoid of objective explanation, even to the creator himself. He disregarded clarifying meaning to his works and encouraged viewers to draw their own subjective impressions and interpretations. Watching through his filmography, I feel inclined to agree —his stories aren't mere puzzles, intrincate mechanisms to be decyphered within a defined circuit in the lines of what a movie like Memento could be. You are not supposed to get them. They trascend objective meaning to reach and evoking dimension, even if they do have a rather detailed plot which stimulates thoughtful interpretation play.
Inland Empire could be either shameless mindfuck wankery or a subtle text. It matters little. It's a film driven by symbols, that clearly indulges in representing subconscious perception. I personally find it to be very emotional for reasons I cannot even explain to myself. I always cry like a little bitch at the final scene.

>>1786
Since you're quick to point fingers, what is your take on IE?

>>1788
>It's a film driven by symbols, that clearly indulges in representing subconscious perception. I personally find it to be very emotional for reasons I cannot even explain to myself
I absolutely agree, many people say watching Lynchs films are like having a dream while you are awake, the symbols "wash over you" and you are in for the emotional experience. However, I still find it interesting to search and try to find out something that might not even be there in his films. If they are explained to you, it may make you appreciate them much more than before just because of the things Lynch thought of that you didn't even notice.