Part 1
WARNINGS
APPROACHING THE FILM
HISTORIES
THE BASICS
IMPORTANT FACES

Part 2
MURDER
AN UNPAID BILL
PURGATORY

Part 3
THE CONNECTION
DREAM ORIGIN
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
ENLIGHTENMENT

Part 4
RABBITS
AXXON N
RED, BLUE, GREEN
AFTER MIDNIGHT
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
MORAL OF THE STORY

Reference
LYRICS
DELETED SCENES

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Reference

Lyrics - "Polish Poem"

I sing this poem to you...
On the other side, I see…
Shining waves flowing.
It’s far away, far away from me,
I can see it there
I can see it there
the wind blows outside and I have no breath,
I breathe again and know I’ll have to live
To forget my world is ending.
I have to live…
I hear my heart beat,
Fluttering in pain, saying something,
Tears are coming to my eyes -
I cry… I cry…
I cannot feel the warmth of the sun
I cannot hear the laughter
Choking with every thought,
I see your faces,
My hands are tied as I wish -
But no one comes,
No one comes,
Where are you?
Where are you?
What will make me want to live?
What will make me want to love?
Tell me… tell me…

I sing this poem to you… to you…
Is this mystery unfolding
As a wing floating?
Something is coming true -
The dream of an innocent child…

Something is happening -
Something is happening...

Lyrics - "Sinnerman"

Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

Oh, I run to the river
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin', I run to the sea
It was boilin'
All on that day

So I ran to the lord
I said, lord hide me
Please hide me
Please help me
All on that day

He said, child, where were you
When you are old and prayin'?

I said lord, lord, hear me prayin'
Lord, lord, hear me prayin'
Lord, lord, hear me prayin'
All on that day

Sinnerman, you oughta be prayin'
Oughta be prayin', sinnerman
Oughta be prayin'
All on that day

I cried
Power (repeated)
All down
All down
Bring it down
Power (repeated)

Whoah-ho
Power
Power, lord
Don't you know I need you, lord
Don't you know that I need ya
Don't you know that I need ya

Power
Power
Power Lord!

Lyrics - "Ghost of Love"

Strange what love does
So strange what love does
So strange what love does
When you're all alone
Strange when you fight
The ghost of love
Those ghosts of love

Strange what love does
It's strange
So strange
What love does
So strange
What love does
When you're all alone
Strange when you fight
The ghost of love
The ghosts of love

Strange
So strange
What love does
It's strange
What love does
So strange
What love does
When you're all alone
So strange
Fighting the ghost of love
The ghost of love
The ghost
It's a ghost of love
The ghost
Ghosts of love

Deleted Scenes

What follows is a description of each scene in More Things That Happened, which can be found on the Extras disk.

1
Smithy comes home late. Sue warms him up some dinner.

2
Sue takes out the trash, looking more frumpy and downtrodden than ever.

3
Smithy looks for his shoes, gets frustrated, gives Sue some subtle verbal abuse. This scene really fleshes out their combative, loveless relationship—perhaps too much.

4
This is by far the longest scene in More Things That Happened. It probably takes place in the United States, not Poland (note the swimming pool and lack of snow), at what appears to be a wealthy person's residence. People in one area of the house are having a party—dancing to music and whatnot, but we join the Phantom (definitely the contemporary Inland Empire incarnation, not the Polish one) in a quiet corner. There are many paintings on the walls, and pretty much all of them have something to do with falling into hell. Lost Girl enters the scene. Don't ask me how she got from Old Poland to contemporary America, why she doesn't (or claims not to) speak Polish, or where her 80s hair came from. I guess we just have to suspend our disbelief on all counts. She approaches the Phantom wanting to buy a lucky watch. Their conversation is torturously drawn-out. I'm not sure that we should really conclude much from this scene. We do get a better sense of Lost Girl's general desperation, I guess. But the scene appears to suggest (not even in a subtle way) that she sold her soul to the devil or something like that, which is incoherent in the greater INLAND EMPIRE context. It also strikes me that the Phantom character we see here is fairly inconsistent with the one we see in the actual film. There are probably many reasons that this scene was cut. It's interesting, but I'm not sure it belongs even in More Things That Happened.

5
Unlike the Mr. K scenes in the film, this one has flashbacks to illustrate the storytelling. This sort of deflates the intensity of Laura Dern's performance, but now the monologue carries over as narration as we plunge into the flashback. Sue wanders through hallways with ominous lights flashing. She walks across the street and finds herself in a house that's not her own but looks exactly like it. Creepy. Sue wanders down another hall. Cut to Nikki Grace's mansion and, yes, Nikki Grace. Time elapses. Sue, in cheap-looking formalwear, finds Nikki lying on the floor and promptly disappears from the scene. Well, it's not exactly Nikki. She's wearing movie star sunglasses and the man on the phone repeatedly calls her Nikki, but she speaks like Sue and alludes to a real-life murder having taken place. To make things more confusing, unspecific Polish voiceover is sprinkled across the scene. And the rabbits make an intense cameo. (They're probably trying to communicate with her.) The man on the phone is probably her lover, but—guess what—he sounds nothing like Billy Side. The Nikki we see here is actually some kind of midway-point between Nikki and Sue. This is my favorite scene in More Things That Happened. Though it may not belong in the feature film, it's pure Lynch.

6
Nikki's friend or sister tells her a story that approximates the opening blurred-face hotel room scene.

7
Sue does random domestic chores. Two prostitutes play with a UFO toy in the other room.

8
Smithy goes out (ominously, of course). Sue sits at home. Abstract light takes over the scene. And then—oh, there's Billy's freshly murdered body lying on the street. I guess we know why Smithy went out.

9
This brief scene gives us a better taste of the Baltic circus—"Cyrk Zalewski." Smithy does a trick with a horse.

10
Sue, talking with Mr. K again, tells a colorful story about living at her sister's house. This is classic stuff. She and Mr. K have a bit more interaction, too.

"You gotta understand... I was 41 years old in 1960. I'm freaked out about it, cause I lost a bunch of years."

11
A sad 10-minute scene with the prostitutes that seems longer. We definitely see their dark and desperate side here. Kinda spoils the magic, honestly.