Southland Tales

[Connor Reilly]

Definitely worth a gander. My favorite scene is a quick one, the image of
teh toy soldier crawling on the ground was pretty neat...did not hold my
attention as much as Donnie Darko...He apparently wrote a screenplay for
Cats Cradle, would be cool if that was made...

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Elaine Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the most bizarre film experiences of standard bizarre (Donnie Darko)
> ...I couldn't figure out what was going on at least half the time, yet many
> images have remained with me weeks after watching.  Kind of like a bad dream
> you can't shake after waking...
>
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> On 4/25/09, 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
>>
>> 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
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