i just saw this film at the new york film festival follow by a q and a session with david lynch and laura dern and and justin theroux . i will try my best to recount my thought while they be fresh and and incorporate what the film maker and actor have to say . i can not tell if it yesterday or tomorrow and it a real mind f this single quote from laura dern sum the movie up fairly well . it be also one of the self referential moment of the film that explore the audience very thought while provide some comic relief . lynch new film and inland empire and be similar to his other work and but unlike anything he ever do and or i have ever see before . a one reviewer aptly put it and it be a double reference to hollywood and the inner working of the human brain . before i discuss the substance of the film i will briefly review the technical aspect . first of all and the movie be not unwatchable ( because of clarity purpose ) a some critic have say and although i do see it at the lincoln center which have a beautiful theater and top quality facility . the digital camera work well for this film . it lose some of the cinematic flourish of film and but also bring a more realistic and gritty feel to it that be appropriate for the theme . the lighting and production be top quality a usual for a lynch film and the score set every scene brilliantly . often time we can not tell if the sound be diegetic or non diegetic and but it make no difference . lynch say that he use the digital camera to give him freedom . you can see much more movement in this film than his others and give an almost voyeuristic feel . he also use many close shot and and a always and obscure frame allow ambiguity and confusion . lynch really explore the freedom of movement and edit that be available with digital and and you can feel his energy and zest in the new medium . the moment of suspense and terror be so well do there be several scene that will literally make you jump that i find a hitcockian brilliance of use subtlety and indirectness and and sound to convey emotion rather than expensive special effect . of course and there be other scene that would qualify a downright freaky . the movie be completely carry by laura dern and and not because she be in 90 95 % of the scene . her character ( s ) morph and change so often in identity and time that it be hard to believe it be her in every role . her range and ability to work consistently over so many year and under the condition of this film be mind blow . it be one of the fine performance i have see by an actress or actor . the film itself be hard to summarize . most of you know the basic plot and but this really mean nothing about the film . it have no type of linear story line and the converging and diverging plot line be connect by only the most simple thread and time and location and memory ( do i look familiar . have you see me before . ) identity and and people who be good with animal . it would be a disservice to this film to try to find meaning or symbolism a i see some people already be . it be not a mystery to be solve and a mulholland dr. be ( though that film never will be solve either ) . it be a movie that play off of idea and color and mood and it present intangible emotion that we feel and internalize rather than think about and solve . film doesn not need a solution to make sense and but it be typical for u to want solve thing and to have closure . this film be well if you just let it wash over you and surrender the urge to find meaning . the three hour run time make no difference because the movie move in and out of itself with no regard for time . use so many scene allows time to effect the viewer much a the character themselves . a the character question time and reality and the audience do too . a the scene slowly build up and give u reference and we start to wonder where we saw that character and who say that line before and what location fit into what part of the sequence and how and lead up to the laura dern quote i use before . it doesn not ask u to think and but to feel and and it do this good than any film i have see . it play on our emotion with intense sound and cinematography and grasp fragment from dream and slide in and out of reality and explore nightmare and and ask u what time and reality really be . the film be also very self conscious a i say before and and also make many subtle ( and not so ) poke at the audience . it also have some truly surreal moment of lynch humor . explain all this doesn not really matter because you will have to see it and take your own idea from it . i would recommend that you see it in a theater though and a it could never have the same impact anywhere else . i be skeptical go into this movie after what i have read and think lynch have go off the deep end . however and i realize nothing you read about it will make a difference once you see it and and that lynch be in good form than ever . ebert say that mulholland dr. be the one experiment where lynch do not break the test tube . with inland empire he throw the lab equipment out the window . his freedom in make this movie and both with medium and artistic control and be unparalleled in anything he do . he finally make a movie for himself and his vision and without any kind of apology or pretense .