Southland Tales

[Otto]

Has anyone seen this movie?

I saw it last night and I'm not sure what to make if it.

Otto

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"Southland Tales" (2006) directed by Richard Kelly

Southland Tales is a 2006 science fiction/drama/black comedy film,
written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the
Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and
Greater Los Angeles. Set in the then near future of an alternate
history, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the
military-industrial news-tainment complex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southland_Tales

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Southland Tales opens in the fascist, media-debased near future. Our
navigators through this profligate America are an amnesiac named Boxer
Santos (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), and Ronald Taverner (Seann William
Scott), a cop who has unwittingly been embroiled in a secret agenda by
neo-Marxist rebels. Private Abilene (Justin Timberlake) is the
narrator and askew conscience of the film, whose off-kilter prophecies
describe a distorted America that bears a pointed resemblance to our
own. Kelly's film is a pastiche of references from many facets of
media and culture funneled as if through a funhouse mirror. CNN
screens display images of technology that look like Metropolis by way
of Mel Brooks. The futurist nightmares of William Gibson and Thomas
Pynchon are explored with the snark of Mike Judge (Idiocracy). Philip
K. Dick shares the stage with noir classic Kiss Me Deadly, as well as
Repo Man, Mad Max, Satyricon, and Brazil. This wouldn't seem so odd if
it didn't also recall so much of The Gospel According to John.

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/southland_tales/news/1688330/richard_kelly_tells_southland_tales_of_love_and_devotion

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