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Anyone else see this yet? I saw i last night and assure you it was easily one of top few most bizarre films I have ever seen.
For those of you who aren't aware, this is writer/director Richard Kelly's first work since Donnie Darko. As a huge Donnie Darko fan, I was definitely excited to see this film. And like I said, I'm still not sure what the hell to think about it. The storyline of Southland Tales makes Donnie Darko look as mundane and simple as Bambi. I think I will need to see it at least one more time before I can really make a good judgment about it.
Here's one individual's summary of the film, since I don't think I could attempt to write one at this point:
"California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half."
The cast is as random as the film itself:
Dwayne Johnson (yes, "The Rock")
Sarah Michelle Gellar
John Larroquette
Jon Lovitz
Mandy Moore
Justin Timberlake
Shawn William Scott
Cheri Oteri
Miranda Richardson
Wallace Shawn
Mods can make this a poll if they want. I think I'd give it about 2.5-3 stars for the first viewing.
Regardless if the film did at times perhaps try to do too much, I still think writer/ director Richard Kelly is one of the most creative young minds in film today.
For those of you who aren't aware, this is writer/director Richard Kelly's first work since Donnie Darko. As a huge Donnie Darko fan, I was definitely excited to see this film. And like I said, I'm still not sure what the hell to think about it. The storyline of Southland Tales makes Donnie Darko look as mundane and simple as Bambi. I think I will need to see it at least one more time before I can really make a good judgment about it.
Here's one individual's summary of the film, since I don't think I could attempt to write one at this point:
"California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half."
The cast is as random as the film itself:
Dwayne Johnson (yes, "The Rock")
Sarah Michelle Gellar
John Larroquette
Jon Lovitz
Mandy Moore
Justin Timberlake
Shawn William Scott
Cheri Oteri
Miranda Richardson
Wallace Shawn
Mods can make this a poll if they want. I think I'd give it about 2.5-3 stars for the first viewing.
Regardless if the film did at times perhaps try to do too much, I still think writer/ director Richard Kelly is one of the most creative young minds in film today.
