{"id":303,"date":"2007-01-29T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:07:00","slug":"big_screen_inla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/big_screen_inla.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Inland Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I have no idea what this movie was supposed to be about.  And when I say &#8220;no idea&#8221;, by that I mean &#8220;no fucking clue in any way&#8221; and anyone who says they did is full of fucking shit.  For example, if you read a review that says &#8220;this part of the movie was a criticism of society&#8217;s xxx&#8221;.  Just LAUGH TO YOURSELF and say &#8220;You pulled that OUT OF YOUR ASS man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was one (or maybe two) storylines that you could PSEUDO interpret to yourself in a Mullholland Drive kind of way.  In other words, so in some scenes she&#8217;s an actress, but in some scenes she thinks she is really the part that she was just playing in other scenes, now she thinks she&#8217;s ACTUALLY her.  OK, that was the one percent of the movie that was explainable in any way.<\/p>\n<p>When I say this movie is at least 90,000 times MORE confusing and MORE dislinear and MORE disjunctive and MORE fucked up than Mulholland Drive (which I actually did like in quite a few ways), I think I am <em>underestimating<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And to those obviously insane David Lynch fans who went all out with the applause at the end:  Hello, WHAT were you applauding?  Everyone in my row just looked at each other and said WHAT IN THE FUCKING HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?  And no, I wasn&#8217;t the only person in my row!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>And p.s. it was three hours long.  Three hours of lots of stress and tension and uncomfortable icky scenes and three hours of complete and utter confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I have no idea what this movie was supposed to be about. And when I say &#8220;no idea&#8221;, by that I mean &#8220;no fucking clue in any way&#8221; and anyone who says they did is full of fucking shit. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/big_screen_inla.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}