![]() ![]() Shot entirely on digital video and stretching for almost three hours, “Inland Empire” is a garish, confusing and uncomfortable experience from beginning to end. The tenth and last film in Lynch’s career is also arguably the least accessible of his works. Laura Dern walks towards the camera in Inland Empire ![]() The film is not just a perfect summary of some of Lynch’s main themes such as identity, dreamlike imagery, and criminal backgrounds, but also one of the most emotional, intense, and all-around beautiful films in the director’s oeuvre.Ĥ. This way, Diane is not only showing contempt for Camilla and the world that surrounds both of them, but also for herself and the way she behaves. While she clearly has possessive and sexually dominant tendencies, Betty is naive, innocent and kind. Diane doesn’t let any of her flaws remain in her alter ego. Her suicide feels even more meaningful and tragic because of the way Betty is portrayed through all of the film. Desperate and inconsolable, she takes a gun from her bedside table and turns it against herself. The lights flicker violently as Diane’s ear-piercing screams fill the shrinking space around her. After finding a blue key in her apartment, meaning Camilla is dead, Diane begins to suffer hallucinations in which she is tormented by the elderly couple from the beginning of the film. The film ends with a guilt-ridden Diane committing suicide in her room.ĭiane’s last moments are both terrifying and heartbreaking to witness. However, unable to cope with her unrequited love and lack of success, Diane hires a hit man to end the life of her ex-partner. Through the film, it’s suggested that Diane’s jealousy and frustration make her imagine herself as Betty, an alter ego who is able to achieve everything that has been supposedly denied to her in real life, including a successful film career and the love of Camilla. What was initially an unaired TV pilot, “Mulholland Drive” is Lynch’s most nuanced and ambitious work when it comes to represent the ambiguous and fractured nature of its characters psyches.ĭiane Selwyn (Naomi Watts) is a failed actress who works as a waitress in Hollywood, while her ex-girlfriend Camilla (Laura Harring), having already moved on from their relationship, is enjoying a successful and comfortable life as a movie star. The end of Diane Selwyn in Mulholland Drive ![]()
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