Southland Tales

[Kevin Dunn]

I love Kelly's previous work, Donnie Darko, but I have yet to see  
Southland Tales mainly because it was panned critically. Still  
interested to see what everyone on this list thinks...

Kevin

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On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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> Krysta Now Website:
>
> For this... this is the way the world ends.
> This is the way the world ends.
> This is the way the world ends.
>
> Not with a whimper... but with a bang.
>
> http://www.krysta-now.com/index2.html