As much as I've anticipated to see La Strada, I was still surprised by it in a nice way. It is heartbreaking and unique. Gelsomina is such a special character (looks & personality), she makes it impossible for the movie to be ordinary. The ironies in the film also make it very memorable.
I watched David Lynch's Inland Empire with Rory the other day. It is 3 hours long and it does not make any sense. Yeah, I fell asleep a couple times in the first 40 minutes, because I was tired and the movie is incomprehensible (as expected). It is 10 times more confusing than Muholland Drive. 90% of the time, the characters in the movie do not know what's going on. And from interviews I read, the lead actors (Laura Dern and the other dude) did not know what the movie is about when they filmed it. So basically, anyone who said the movie makes any sense is bullshit. I wouldn't mind watching parts of Inland Empire if it is 15 minutes long, as a short film. Yet having a 3-hour-long feature film with that kind of flow is unacceptable. Besides the "mind-bottling" nature of the movie, the constant influx of new characters only makes it more difficult for anyone to watch. However, the movie is so ridiculous I refused to go use the restroom in the middle of it because I did't want to miss any of the crazy shit. My only compliments would go to the haunting sounds of the film and how versatile Laura Dern was. Yet how dare so many critics (and even just random people on netflix) have such high praise for this movie. It is incomprehensible, purposely confusing and repetitive. Those out-of-focus super close-up shots got on my nerves too.
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I think most critics are afraid of saying they disliked a film because they "didn't get it", even if the film is purposely un"get"able... they're afraid that, even though they didn't get it, maybe someone else got it (or says they got it) and they'll in turn look stupid for not having gotten it... so they say they got it, but don't say what it was they actually got
also, the poster for Inland Empire is the most horrendous movie posters i've EVER seen... it's a compositional and typographical disaster, the likes of which have never been seen by human eyes... it's seriously enough to make me never want to see the movie - especially when coupled with how pretentiously "mind-bottling" Mulholland Drive tried to be
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