{"id":2589,"date":"2015-10-27T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilbertthm90.wordpress.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:31:34","slug":"david-lynch-and-partial-fourth-wall-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/2015\/10\/david-lynch-and-partial-fourth-wall-breaking\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lynch, Inland Empire, and the Fourth Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I rewatched Inland Empire<\/em> recently and was surprised to find that it wasn’t as confusing as I initially thought. I hadn’t watched it in probably eight years, but I remember my initial reaction: this is nonsense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I loved Lost Highway<\/em> and Mulholland Drive<\/em>, so I was no stranger to Lynch’s style and bizarre narrative structures. But it seemed that the abstraction jumped up a notch too far to be comprehensible in Inland Empire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ***Spoiler Warning: I give some of my interpretation of the movie. Obviously, no one <\/strong>really<\/strong><\/em> knows what it’s about, so this shouldn’t be a big deal even if you haven’t seen it.***<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This time through I noticed something interesting; the viewer isn’t left to figure it all out on their own. <\/p>\n\n\n\nFourth Wall Breaking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n