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Originally Posted by Ghostchase

To me Inland Empire is an extreme example of self-parody.

i doubt that. lynch has always flirted with dreams and incorporated them into his movies. the problem here is that he went overboard.

i think it was aldous huxley in doors of perception/heaven & hell who said that everyone dreams but art is really about translation. he wasn't a great artist but that doesn't mean he didn't have the right idea.

by forgoing the translation process and showing us the raw materials of his mind lynch can fascinate some people and alienate others. i dream plenty, i have no need to borrow other people's unprocessed nightmares.

maybe if he had made it a lot shorter i would have enjoyed more some of the elements of the thing, because there were some wonderful shots/moments/elements/scenes but unfortunately they floated in the middle of a dull ocean of pointless dreck that took 3 hours to cross. i had a hard time staying awake.