This movie characterizes what it feels like to be dreaming better than any of Lynch's other movies, at least a close tie with Mulholland Drive, but nevertheless this movie has an incredible ability to completely destroy the viewers perspective and rebuild it in a world of his own...
I can't...I can't watch this movie again. I know it would probably make more sense to me if I did, there's probably a lot more to this movie then I realize, but I don't want to waste another 3 hours of my life trying to figure out the story. Please, David Lynch, just play the movie in order for once.
This scene represents to me everyone who was on the "lost highway" or black lodge or hell being released. The girl with the carstick leg killed kids in the 3rd grade. The spirits in a circular torment in his films being freed because of Susan destroying Krimp or the phantom. This film has end of the world themes like in the room before susan kills the phantom the clock is at 12:21 or 12/21/2012. I read tons into this film on so many levels it drives me a little bit crazy.
@turtlewings I can mean anything you want it to me to you. However, for me, There are too many things in that scene that allude to other David Lynch movies that have Lodgian similarities; the lumber jack, the "Judy" monkey, the flashing lights, the weird music (where theses creeps are from, the birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air.) To me, it pretty clear that Nikki/Susan (unlike any of her predecessors) has successfully Fire-Walked.
This scene seems like it may have been a dream that David Lynch had at one point. See how it builds from just the few girls to a whole party of them, who all seem to be performing for Laura Dern's character. The raw power (POWER!), the blinking lights, Laura Dern's face...I think that character (in this scene) IS David Lynch.
I´m agree with bignosebob, the main topic in the film is the usual religious experiences. I think the film is at the same time surrealist and existencialist. The argument is existencialist (in his christian variation) and the developement is surrealist, or atonal. The sinnerman song, and the dance, is a resume of the film: a mix of sin, promiscuity, beauty, prayer, madness and absurd- see the face of Laura Dern. The black dancer is remaking to Nina. That´s the key of the film the repetition
is metaphoric, sorry for my english, im spanish. Atonal means that the film has not argument as an atonal song has not tone. Each scene is connected with the next one but not with the whole tone. Do you understand. The song, obviously, is not atonal
@colectividual in what way is it existential in the religious sense? I don't know much about the religious sense of existentialism, but it seems to be to be some sort of a crisis with regards to how to get to god. Correct me if I'm wrong
Existentialism is a 19th century school of though in philiosophy spearheaded by Soren Kierkergaard, it is to dealing with the consequences of existence and non-existance of god, to deal with individuality.
'The argument was Existentialist* (in his christian variation) what?
The devopment is quite centred, not atonal at all.
You seem to have no idea what you're talking about?
When I saw this in the theater, I clapped when Lynch's name showed up on the screen...and I clapped even louder when the credits were over. Whoever compared this film to a religious experience was right...my friend and I walked out of that theater like we had just been through something profound. Lynch is a master.
I love this ending it`s so unexpected uplifting and celebratory, it`s on the icing on the cake of this incredible masterpiece and it`s a beautiful piece of music.
A great joyful weird ending to a great weird scary disturbing movie - life's a stage and everyone plays a part - and this is the afterparty! Reminds me of the party at the end of another great film - O Lucky Man. The full length of this song is over 10 minutes long, trance time...
I liked the movie even though I have many gaps. I guess I will have to watch this more than just once to start figuring out stuff. The end credits part is close to a religious experience imo. Absolutely unforgetable :)
It's art after all and art should be felt and experienced and not logically decoded!Still it's something I always find myself doing with all David Lynch films, can't help it...Oh well, I should stop and give myself up totally to my feelings instead ^^
Throughout the whole movie I was wondering why I was watching it. After enduring 3 hours of what I would call a weird movie, from out of nowhere it hit me. Brilliant ending.
on my opinion this is the best lynch movie ever.! i know some people don't appriciate it, but i will forget this movie. Seriously, it's awesome... and its a great way to end it...!
I agree, he really had his finger on the pulse with this ending. I'm unable to put words to it, but it kinda sums everthing up, really closes the film well somehow, really drives home his adoration for the female spirit
this ending is great cuz it brings the whole bizzare cast together. plus it shows how cool david lynch uses the same people in his crew and cast. johanna ray the casting agent is the same lady who picked the cast for twin peaks and is the mother of eric de rae who played leo johnston on that show, plus laura dern was in blue velvet and wild at heart. this film is one of the most brilliant things i have seen in years.
i cried, man! my girlfriend had to drag me out of that cinema right after they turned the lights on, a man sweeping the floor was the only other person in that room
its funny cause when i watched this film in the movies the public was of around 20 people and in the end just 5 or 6 were still there. i saw that in the end and tried to realize why people dont appreciate such a masterpiece, as many of lynch's films. in the time of the credits i felt so excited when i realized it was Nina singing!
I didn't think anything could ever top Rebekah del Rio's performance of "Crying" by Roy Orbison in Mulholland Drive, but this, well, it's still a tough call, but this is still completely perfect. I love that feeling of "did that really just happen?" after 3+ hrs of Inland.
David Lynch's movies make me feel as if I am in a nightmare, well, this final part is the end of it, it's the awakening and the return to the normal life. but how beautifully
This movie characterizes what it feels like to be dreaming better than any of Lynch's other movies, at least a close tie with Mulholland Drive, but nevertheless this movie has an incredible ability to completely destroy the viewers perspective and rebuild it in a world of his own...
SystemFreaKk13 3 months ago
I can't...I can't watch this movie again. I know it would probably make more sense to me if I did, there's probably a lot more to this movie then I realize, but I don't want to waste another 3 hours of my life trying to figure out the story. Please, David Lynch, just play the movie in order for once.
Ichiboy900 5 months ago
looks like a bunch of demons to me
LionCome 5 months ago
This scene represents to me everyone who was on the "lost highway" or black lodge or hell being released. The girl with the carstick leg killed kids in the 3rd grade. The spirits in a circular torment in his films being freed because of Susan destroying Krimp or the phantom. This film has end of the world themes like in the room before susan kills the phantom the clock is at 12:21 or 12/21/2012. I read tons into this film on so many levels it drives me a little bit crazy.
balbanes1 7 months ago
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best credits ever. best movie ever
DriveMulholland 8 months ago
what brilliancy~
audreydavida 9 months ago
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Jesus is lord of earth, repent, repent, repent, repent, pray, pray, pray.
bass109 11 months ago
Let No Sin Go Unpunished.
wiseFoolsDies2 11 months ago
In heaven everything is fine
AR2D76 1 year ago 2
awesome
BrentHutchinson1 1 year ago
Awesome... :D
PowerOfWilliam 1 year ago
Inland Empire has one of the most satisfying endings of all time.
He knew that explaining the plot at the end would suck, so he just throws a bunch of beautiful weirdness at us, and my God is it awesome.
vaguelyhumanoid 1 year ago 2
text from this movie: "she has a monkey that shits everywhere, but she don`t care"
MrKirdot 1 year ago
Flashing lights + Log Lady's husband + Monkey (that says, "JUDY") = The Black and/or White Lodge.
Hoopermazing 1 year ago 2
@Hoopermazing or that lumberjack could represent sleep... sawling logs, amirite?
turtlewings 1 year ago
@turtlewings I can mean anything you want it to me to you. However, for me, There are too many things in that scene that allude to other David Lynch movies that have Lodgian similarities; the lumber jack, the "Judy" monkey, the flashing lights, the weird music (where theses creeps are from, the birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air.) To me, it pretty clear that Nikki/Susan (unlike any of her predecessors) has successfully Fire-Walked.
Hoopermazing 1 year ago
@Hoopermazing It rather
Hoopermazing 1 year ago
love this movie!!
chuyespinosa 1 year ago 2
monkey-loglady=lynch
sean57 1 year ago
0:28 the beautiful Laura Harring.
theillfrisch 1 year ago 4
@theillfrisch Damn she's beautiful!
Davidbasque15 11 months ago
Nina Simone!!! fits perfectly..
elektrohase 1 year ago 2
btw, anyone know the name of the first song, with the pros, and then watching the rabbits
italeka 1 year ago
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mundanewarrior 1 year ago
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You ought to be praying, sinnerman
mundanewarrior 1 year ago
You ought to be praying, sinnerman
mundanewarrior 1 year ago 2
This scene seems like it may have been a dream that David Lynch had at one point. See how it builds from just the few girls to a whole party of them, who all seem to be performing for Laura Dern's character. The raw power (POWER!), the blinking lights, Laura Dern's face...I think that character (in this scene) IS David Lynch.
mundanewarrior 1 year ago 2
I heard this song at work today and it made me want to watch IE again.
irishcoffee 1 year ago
What a jolly good house party.
videochemist 1 year ago 2
METAFORM did an amazing remix of this.
BrendaChu 2 years ago
@BrendaChu where can I find this remix?
estevancarlos 1 year ago
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PayneToTheMax 2 years ago
Cinema, simply put, at its very very best.
ginkgonk122 2 years ago 7
So powerfull, like walking into a church and feeling god...
when I went to see it, there was even the usual part of the crowd that goes home in the middle....
masterclass cinema.
jkhgsdhgdhgjklsdhfgj 2 years ago 5
I´m agree with bignosebob, the main topic in the film is the usual religious experiences. I think the film is at the same time surrealist and existencialist. The argument is existencialist (in his christian variation) and the developement is surrealist, or atonal. The sinnerman song, and the dance, is a resume of the film: a mix of sin, promiscuity, beauty, prayer, madness and absurd- see the face of Laura Dern. The black dancer is remaking to Nina. That´s the key of the film the repetition
colectividual 2 years ago 4
what is atonal? been trying to find out.... thanks mate.
jkhgsdhgdhgjklsdhfgj 2 years ago
is metaphoric, sorry for my english, im spanish. Atonal means that the film has not argument as an atonal song has not tone. Each scene is connected with the next one but not with the whole tone. Do you understand. The song, obviously, is not atonal
colectividual 2 years ago 4
hmmmmmmmm....thank you man! I've seen this word a lot recently, specially in texts refering to editing of images and stuff like that..
and long live Buñuel, 'viridiana' fucking rocks!!!
jkhgsdhgdhgjklsdhfgj 2 years ago
it has no tone...at all...
cineasta71 2 years ago
@colectividual in what way is it existential in the religious sense? I don't know much about the religious sense of existentialism, but it seems to be to be some sort of a crisis with regards to how to get to god. Correct me if I'm wrong
mrsdengler 2 years ago
@colectividual
Existentialism is a 19th century school of though in philiosophy spearheaded by Soren Kierkergaard, it is to dealing with the consequences of existence and non-existance of god, to deal with individuality.
'The argument was Existentialist* (in his christian variation) what?
The devopment is quite centred, not atonal at all.
You seem to have no idea what you're talking about?
BelfastAtheist 1 year ago
Amazing. Just look at this ending...all these crazy Lynch bitches dancing to "Sinnerman." POWER!!
womandisobey 2 years ago 2
When I saw this in the theater, I clapped when Lynch's name showed up on the screen...and I clapped even louder when the credits were over. Whoever compared this film to a religious experience was right...my friend and I walked out of that theater like we had just been through something profound. Lynch is a master.
bignosebob1 2 years ago 4
I love this ending it`s so unexpected uplifting and celebratory, it`s on the icing on the cake of this incredible masterpiece and it`s a beautiful piece of music.
7lartceps 2 years ago 3
A great joyful weird ending to a great weird scary disturbing movie - life's a stage and everyone plays a part - and this is the afterparty! Reminds me of the party at the end of another great film - O Lucky Man. The full length of this song is over 10 minutes long, trance time...
TJ68LA 2 years ago 7
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The weirdest ending ever. But man... it's better than the whole movie.
ThomasRedfield 2 years ago
I liked the movie even though I have many gaps. I guess I will have to watch this more than just once to start figuring out stuff. The end credits part is close to a religious experience imo. Absolutely unforgetable :)
cherrylipsbrunette 2 years ago 2
I don't think it's a matter of figuring stuff out with David Lynch. He doesn't code metaphors into his films.
His work is all about impulse. The things that he puts on the screen resonate with your own experiences and feelings..
spamjelly5 2 years ago 2
Of course it's not priority!
It's art after all and art should be felt and experienced and not logically decoded!Still it's something I always find myself doing with all David Lynch films, can't help it...Oh well, I should stop and give myself up totally to my feelings instead ^^
You are right!
cherrylipsbrunette 2 years ago 4
The lumberjack is totally random and epic.
Sotadbastos 2 years ago 6
very scary, but one of the best movies EVER...
Khatahuba 2 years ago 8
Throughout the whole movie I was wondering why I was watching it. After enduring 3 hours of what I would call a weird movie, from out of nowhere it hit me. Brilliant ending.
hotchickhunter 2 years ago 5
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m11gtr 2 years ago
The pianist in this scene is Ben Harper
ldtmdt 2 years ago
i just hope its not David's last Phycological thriller
donneric 2 years ago 8
on my opinion this is the best lynch movie ever.! i know some people don't appriciate it, but i will forget this movie. Seriously, it's awesome... and its a great way to end it...!
coaster1000 2 years ago 6
Completely weird.
No idea about the movie, just searched for "Sinnerman" and found Laura Dern, David Lynch and Jeremy Irons....
If the film is as good as the combo of Nina, David, Laura and Jeremy.....
ZZZZZZiiiiiiccccccCCC!!!!
JacKass00001 2 years ago
This is such a great ending. After such intensity for nearly three hours this feels like a joyous release. I love this movie.
mifune141 3 years ago 45
I agree, he really had his finger on the pulse with this ending. I'm unable to put words to it, but it kinda sums everthing up, really closes the film well somehow, really drives home his adoration for the female spirit
screwball82 2 years ago 5
it blows my mind that laura dern didn't even receive an oscar nomination for this, let alone win the damn thing
johnwaynemacygray 3 years ago 52
I'll say, i'd use two cows and a bull.
zaftra 3 years ago 2
Oh man, Nina Simone's beautiful voice mesmerizes us again.
GorRose 3 years ago 3
The performance of "Sinnerman" is incredible!!!
sweetasssuccubus 3 years ago 6
this ending is great cuz it brings the whole bizzare cast together. plus it shows how cool david lynch uses the same people in his crew and cast. johanna ray the casting agent is the same lady who picked the cast for twin peaks and is the mother of eric de rae who played leo johnston on that show, plus laura dern was in blue velvet and wild at heart. this film is one of the most brilliant things i have seen in years.
kortick50 3 years ago 7
fuckin amazing
DareDaniel1000000000 3 years ago 6
This movie is so utterly amazing that it's almost impossible to describe.
In my opinion, that is.
FamGuyGuy123 3 years ago 7
i cried, man! my girlfriend had to drag me out of that cinema right after they turned the lights on, a man sweeping the floor was the only other person in that room
watashiwanachodes 3 years ago 3
This movie shakes me to the core everytime, I don't even know why....and I don't want to :-)
screwball82 3 years ago 4
How so? D:
GorRose 3 years ago
wtf is this the wierdest thing i ever seen
Howrrang 3 years ago
GTFO my internet por favor.
GorRose 3 years ago 2
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and u must be a cp monkey being for liking this shit.
my grandmas ashole.
Howrrang 3 years ago
Best ending of all time.
piero101 3 years ago 5
its funny cause when i watched this film in the movies the public was of around 20 people and in the end just 5 or 6 were still there. i saw that in the end and tried to realize why people dont appreciate such a masterpiece, as many of lynch's films. in the time of the credits i felt so excited when i realized it was Nina singing!
Julieadict 3 years ago 5
Just amazing.
drplbiftin 3 years ago
I am confused (as always). Is this real Nina Simone singing? She looks fantastic for a 75 years old woman!
bellaelvis11 3 years ago
hahaha, no Nina Simone died years ago.
drplbiftin 3 years ago
utterly fucking brilliant
scrubbychicken 3 years ago 4
just beautiful
chrisdunst13 3 years ago 4
I agree with gridseeker
Expreserge 3 years ago 3
brilliant
angelutube 3 years ago 4
Fucking INSANE!!!
Montag80 3 years ago 5
Best ending credits ever.
emborios 3 years ago 5
Un finale geniale per un film geniale.
Grande Lynch! Il regista più onirico della cinematografia mondiale.
MattatoioNumero5 3 years ago 3
One of the best end credits scene I`ve seen in my life!
Gridseeker 3 years ago 14
What an utterly mesmerising sequence, a perfect end to a perfect film.
rb306 3 years ago 6
sweet ;)
compattybul 3 years ago 7
I didn't think anything could ever top Rebekah del Rio's performance of "Crying" by Roy Orbison in Mulholland Drive, but this, well, it's still a tough call, but this is still completely perfect. I love that feeling of "did that really just happen?" after 3+ hrs of Inland.
rdmauzy 3 years ago 9
This is the greatest credits sequence ever conceived.
skprod 3 years ago 7
I agree 100 percent, this is like watching a live exorcism! Amazing!
jsphmerc 3 years ago 5
David Lynch's movies make me feel as if I am in a nightmare, well, this final part is the end of it, it's the awakening and the return to the normal life. but how beautifully
upicfilos 3 years ago 2
Yeah! This is the most optimistic ending I saw from a movie of the maestro Lynch.
Gridseeker 3 years ago 4
This was kind of... relaxing scense after those scary parts. I love this movie! God, I was afraid... :'D
WrathGrunt 3 years ago 5
i love love love love love love love this sequence
gunness 3 years ago 4
Is there any way of having this sequence without the credits text rolling all over it?
SpookyMulderX 3 years ago 3
Awesome!!
ganzmiesertyp 3 years ago
Thank you so much for adding this
jam5983 3 years ago 3