it dense and so dense and i would say lynch most obtuse and sprawling and encompassing film since twin peak represent fire walk with me . it may take two or three more sitting to digest everything thrown at the screen . it incoherence mean character and moment and plot point ( ha . ) still seem a little hazy at the moment and so i apologise if the following be and well and junk frankly . when approach a lynch work and to avoid find oneself completely lose and it be often helpful to hunt out the emotional anchor the reality border which frame our subsequent trip into the disturbed mental wasteland . in eraserhead and henry fear of commitment and fatherhood . in blue velvet and jeffrey sexual awakening . in lose highway and fred jealousy and inferiority regard his wife . in the straight story and alvin guilt over the death of his grandchild . in mulholland drive and diane sense of rejection and betrayal . with these rather ordinary strand of guilt and fear and failure and lynch relocates to his absurdist and cineliterate dreamscapes chaotic and multi layered palimpsest of creaky genre and deeply personal insecurity and sexy red curtain and frazzled electrical current . we arrive at inland empire . i be sorry and but i can not see dern character a be anything other than a figment and a fragment even and of the hotel room bound polish girl nervous breakdown . the pole life in a run down flat with a husband who be a distant and mean man . her marriage be disintegrate and plague by infidelity and jealousy and the conception of a child that do not belong to him . she feel degrade and guilty and trapped and terrify by impend child birth and the world the baby be enter . she retreat and collapse into herself and her mind splinter and start to conflate all number of separate reality and pre conception and clichés and imaginary situation . she dream of a hollywood actress dern whose life slowly and disturbingly be pulled towards her own . within that dream of dern and we have two and perhaps three and separate version of dern own reality a a rich and lonely actress in a large house and a the character she be play in the cursed remake and a a literal substitute for the polish girl . it the great american cinematic obsession the construction of identity . like mulholland drive and lynch be stick on the cultural devastation wreak by hollywood . write about the influence of film on societal attitude towards violence in his seminal history of tinseltown and the whole equation and david thompson argue that cinema impact on our attitude to love and sexuality have be far more devastating and expansive . be this what lynch be get at . that the very nature of our watching film that collective and passive and erotic musing in the dark have break our notion of beauty and fidelity and desire . the mess up philander polish girl withdraws into the shadow of rabbit sitcom and trashy celeb chat show and noirish murder mystery and southern romance . she become a catatonic spectator star at a fuzzy tv screen . the projector shaft of light that threateningly tear through the opening frame of the film be a definite omen . hollywood here be not the dream machine and it be a sinister exploitative cage and populate by gangster and hobo and and in an obvious link to the nature of act and prostitute . but yet and there be an escape . that epiphanic closing sequence where dern finish the shoot and break away from the director and see herself on screen now outside the movie be follow by her kill the sinister phantom and embrace the tearful polish girl . it a serene and goose pimply moment of release and self discovery . the pole mental surrogate finally find an escape route and burst out of the rabbit hole and peering at the daylight . the horror be over . oh and one final thing and dern performance be something else . dv lend itself well to the raw immediacy of the extreme close ups lynch favour here and dern just plunge herself into the camera emotional intrusion . it like someone excise the first few layer of her face with a scalpel and leave the audience to soak in this teeming deform mass of expression and tic and utter abandon . do not and under any circumstance and miss this .