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Jan 08, 2007
Welcome to His Nightmare
If the visions that come to us in the dead of night—the ones we’d most like to forget and shove violently back into our subconscious—had a cinematic patron saint, it would be David Lynch. In his latest, Inland Empire, the director continues to mine familiar territory: shifting notions of the self and identity, sexual violence, surrealist dream logic, and scaring us in the places in our minds we prefer not to acknowledge. Unfortunately, even with…