This isn't an interpretation, but just a little bit of information.

Reading, catching the big fish again, it's clear that Lynch felt that transcendental meditation

helped him become closer to his true self. He writes that book in typically, I don't know if

evasive is quite the right word, but open-ended style. He talks about diving into the self when he meditates. And for somebody

whose movies are so concerned with the fragile nature of self, I find that interesting. Transcendental

Meditations seem to have given him some sense that there was a very deep self within him,

but that it sort of existed independently

of his conscious mind. And that through this act of meditation, he sort of, it's almost like he

visited the self. As I say this now, I guess I'm wondering if the ending of the movie is

related to this in any way, that for all of these selves, all of these lost girls and

Laura Derns that we see throughout this movie, there is a sort of core that we're left with

at the end. I'm just wondering out loud. As I said, I feel like I have a number of different reactions.

I guess I have kind of two separate readings, or perhaps they're complimentary. I'm not sure.

But one of them, as I was saying, I think, is in some way similar to my reading of Cronenberg's

existence. I mean, that's a film about video games. But, you know, Dennis Lim, I think, is right when

he uses this wonderful phrase about how Inland Empire progresses with the darting associative logic

of hyperlinks. Inland

Empire, as we've discussed, is a film where, you know, one character is this and then there's

something else, so they're both at the same time. One moment echoes another, albeit in these

radically different contexts, you know, as when Freddie asked Nikki and Devon for pocket change to help with his

landlord on an expensive film set, and then later a struggling couple who might well exist in a

different decade for all we know, you know, they're struggling with their rent. There is a kind

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