I finally saw, "Inland Empire" and I'm here to tell you, that I loved it!

My favorite theatre the New Beverly is showing it and after watching a really washed out trailer for Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" David Lynch dropped me into a huge, dark, out of focus, noisy, dirty, sad and truly terrifying world I live in... Almost.

People probably have all sorts of ideas on what the film is about, but if you're like me and drive around Hollywood Blvd at 3am looking at scary people and old buildings for fun, then you'll understand the mood he's not just creating, but capturing.

The abandonment of film for Lynch, I fully embrace, I love what he did with DV! It really is like the quality of the stock in early cinema. I wonder if Guy Maddin is next to try DV?

Some things that come to my mind watching the film:

I think it's about Alice in Wonderland, Hollywoodland, Rabbit holes, Vaginas.


I think it's about Acting, Lying, Art, Whoring, the prostitution of the artist, memory, ghosts, getting screwed in Hollywood and screw-drivers, boobies real and fake, true and false memories, time, timezones, storytelling, dreaming, homes and dream homes, movies in your own head, what you can control and what controls you, how wishes and dreams can heal you or hurt you...

I think this film is one of the best films I've ever seen!

I think it's long, too long for the seats in the New Beverly, but when the DVD is out and with added minutes, I'll be fine with that, too. I've seen short films (On the Lot, anyone?) that seemed much much longer.

I'm not kidding there are a couple of scenes in the film where I felt I was experiencing a nightmare. I was lost in the film, forgot I was in a theatre, and Laura Dern seemed to walk/run out of the screen and scare the living shit out me! It was intense!

I was thinking as the credits were rolling about how Jean Luc Godard seemed to reinvented cinema and a revolution began, I hope this happens here. I don't know how much of "Inland Empire" Lynch owns, but I would love to see Artists own their works, distribute their works and get all the money!