This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“I’m in control.”
It’s rare that a trailer is somehow better filmmaking than the movie itself, but that’s precisely how I felt after watching the movie and rewatching the trailer to make sure they were referring to the same story.
I do give Shyamalan props for the concept. It’s pretty original, and if it wasn’t being used solely to boost his daughter’s music career (she plays the celebrity concert performer, Lady Raven), I’d be more sympathetic. His daughter has a…
“The compliment was sufficient, Luis.”
God, this movie was fabulous. The soundtrack, comedy, the gore. Faith, my mom, and I found ourselves laughing at the weirdest times because Bale has this talent of making the most mundane interactions just astoundingly dramatic and funny. The most iconic scene was the Vice President business card scene where they all look exactly alike, and they all have the same position. Their work is meaningless, yet they’re all so distraught over how their cards…
“Damn! This sounds like a dialogue from our script!”
Can one effectively describe and rate Inland Empire? David Lynch refused to describe anything except that it’s about “a woman in trouble.” Personally, I think the movie was meant to be a dream of interconnected realities. It allows us to contemplate that our exact experiences are happening right this second in another country, another universe, another dimension. And while this may be terrifying and confusing, the end credits scene wants us…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“Don’t play it real until it gets real.”
Thank you, Dr. Longacre and David Lynch, for introducing to my favorite movie of all time. It had exactly everything I wanted. I was never tired of it. I wanted it to keep going forever. I was so shocked by the twists but also so happily frustrated that I didn’t figure them out sooner because they were right in front of me. The surrealism and slightly disturbing imagery fit so nicely with…
