inland empire be best enjoyed if you look at it a a summarization of lynch career . everything that be good or bad about lynch and depend on who you be talk to and can be find in this production . i do not think it be top tier lynch but it do feel endlessly fascinate because it allow the filmmaker to use every trick he have learn in over three decade of movie making . i be not waste my time with plot point each viewer have the right to come up with his or her own interpretation . not unlike lynch lose highway and i think it get something to do with repressed anguish and role playing . but and who know . i do think it be a bit long . i do want to recommend viewer to watch it either very late at night or early in the morning it be the kind of movie that feed on a specific kind of environment . the brilliant sound design need to be appreciate without any distraction .