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There's some amazingly vicious debate about it online.

Two schools:

1. It's all a dream, being dreamed by an unseen protagonist
2. It's all real, and supernatural

Good luck!

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I'm enjoying your take on Inland Empire. Continue the good work.

kmkmiller wrote:So.... question is how difficult was it to put all this info together, and does it make any sense to have an inland-empire.net website that contains studies and stuff? i can't imagine it would make sense, there is no visceral appeal for the movie itself, but oh well.

The site has kind of grown organically over time. I mentioned back in the Twin Peaks Podcast review thread that it was pieced together by lots of the old posters on RT because we were concerned about losing the ideas, discoveries and discussions posted over there. Essentially our content/source material already existed. Some stuff has been tweaked and chopped and rewritten but only on a very basic level. It's a collaborative democratic co-operative approach. Hopefully it's balanced in that it shows a variety of thoughts that encourage people enjoy the trip down the rabbit hole.

Could someone do the same for IE? Certainly not us, I don't think. Personally I struggle with the film. Not in an intellectual sense, necessarily. I think really I struggle to like or enjoy it, so whilst MD is something of a labour of love for me. IE would just be a labour.

Does the content exist to build a website?

I don't know the answer to that question. I've enjoyed reading a few bits and pieces written about the film, but certainly there doesn't seem to be an equivalent of the RT MD forum from years gone by. I know there are some places that host active discussion, but IMDb - for example - has probably lost 1000s upon 1000s of posts because of their pruning policy.

If there was a core of people who wanted to shift their discussions here we'd be happy to open a new sub-forum and host it, but one dementedly obsessive Lynch website is enough for me.

kmkmiller wrote:But the movie is WAAAAAAY too dense to just spam the Club Silencio site with it, it's going to take several entries, so I'll just post here, again, a link to my blog and this first blog entry on INLAND EMPIRE. (usual disclaimer: if not ok, feel free to delete)

http://kmkmiller.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-on-inland-empire-preface.html

And if anyone likes where I'm going with it, please do venture on over to my blog periodically over the next few weeks as I work through the movie. As it will take several entries, it would be pushing the bounds of good manners to post here a link to my blog with every new post. Although I'm sure I'll let people know once more when I'm finished.

I'm a big INLAND EMPIRE obsessive, so I will be following your blog. It'll be interesting to see what you make of it.

Going well kmkmiller, keep up the good work!

taking a lot longer than it should. few reasons. digestion is one. ignorance on my part is another (as I've mentioned several times, there's no inland-empire.net website with studies and locations no research shortcuts.)

lastly the movie is almost more simple and i find myself repeating myself from scene to scene.

Will keep plugging away though. the name nikki grace is a contradiction, and could write two paragraphs on her name itself.

thanks for the encouragement though.