Is it just me, or did that make no sense? Outside, the ice cream truck levitates upward. The name of Dr. Severin Exx is a reference to the name of an evil doctor in the movie "Kiss Me Deadly," and Boxer Santaros' convertible is the same car driven by Ralph Meeker in the 1955 film. In fact, Marx was indirectly influenced by the Book of Revelation in his writing. He played a character named "Donnie" in a movie with Boxer Santaros (in an obvious allusion to "Donnie Darko"). Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, They're representations of every major religion on Earth. While Roeper called the film "Two hours and twenty-four minutes of abstract crap," Phillips felt that "the film has a head on its shoulders despite the fact that it can't find any direction" but nevertheless gave the film a thumbs down. Edit, Boxer Santaros: For some reason, Wallace Shawn is dressed like a new-wave Japanese pimp. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. [28][29] After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. Ronald and Roland Taverner, furthermore, are not twins, but copies of the same person. As part of his participation in the Neo-Marxists' plot, Ronald must pretend to be his brother Roland and accompany Boxer during his movie research. Two witnesses appear in Jerusalem to speak out against the sins of mankind. There are hundreds of these mechanical balls buried everywhere in the Southland. But now it's about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that's about a really important problem we're facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them. What does the phrase "Do You Bleed" mean? Back at USIDent headquarters, we learn that Boxer was kidnapped at a charity scavenger hunt several days earlier, and a charred body, presumed to be his, has been found in the desert near Lake Mead. Southland Tales is dizzyingly maximalist, never happy with one set-piece if it can introduce five. Directed by Richard Kelly, a guy who can only make cult classics . A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. [20][21], Universal Studios had originally optioned the U.S. rights, but after the Cannes screening, it was sold to Sony, although Universal still retained some international rights. Cane loses consciousness. Surrounded by his entourage, which includes Serpentine (Bai Ling); the Baron's mother, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen (Marion Card); Dr. Katarina Kuntzler (Zelda Rubinstein) and Dr. Soberin Exx (Curtis Armstrong) -- all dressed like a Cirque du Soleil troupe -- the Baron explains how fluid karma works: by "quantum entanglement.". The truck is his horse and the rocket launcher his sword.Dream and Dion: Madeline walks in and tells him that he has been speaking in his sleep. The Taverner twins are revealed to be the same person by the engineers of Treer, duplicated when Roland traveled through a rift in space-time, while Boxer has become the most wanted man in the world despite his political ties and his having the fate of the future, in the form of a prophetic screenplay foretelling the end of the world, in his hands. As he waves at himself in the mirror, he notices that his reflection's movements don't match his own. The film is an international co-production of the United States, Germany and France. [23], Southland Tales: Music from the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack of Richard Kelly's 2007 film Southland Tales. Edit, Fred Zinnemann, the well-known movie director of the 1950s and 60s, maybe? You could argue that all of Southland Tales occurs in the Tangent Universehence the film's alternate history of the past three years, and its weird mishmash of pop culture. It's. "ZORA: "A modified organic diet and transcendental meditation. What does the name "Vaughn Smallhouse" refer to? In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. Everything and everyone is bedazzled in red, white, and blue; burgers and Buds are happily consumed on the lawn of every McMansion. Two months before Southland Tales was released, he announced the launch of Darko Entertainment.[15]. ", "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.". We zoom out to a satellite view, revealing that another nuclear bomb has been detonated in El Paso. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. (This explains the final scene where "Ronald" tells Roland he forgives himhe is actually Pilot Abilene talking, explaining that he forgives him for what happened in Fallujah.) Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard. He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. Krysta says she's putting it all in, Cyndi asks why she would do something that stupid, and that's what causes her to tell Cyndi she's sleeping with "a large and powerful man." "Yes They Can! There are now two versions of each co-existing in the same universetwo Boxer Santaros and two Roland Taverners. Dwayne Johnson joined the cast in April 2005, and principal photography was slated to begin August 1, 2005 in Los Angeles. If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. One copy of Boxer traveled 69 minutes back in time, while the other copy was killed by an explosive charge in the car. A tide-powered generator, however, relies on an external source of power, the tides, and would not fall under that definition. As part of his job, Jericho must tattoo a symbol from every world religion onto his body and, when the Messiah reaches maturity, the "winning" religion's symbol will bleed snake blood. Scientists are saying the futures going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted, Krysta suggests, as if this helped to explain anything. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, She was designed as a sort of Arianna Huffington meets Jenna Jameson. Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days." Somehow I doubt that will ever happen. A closed system that defies the Law would be along the lines of, for example, an electric car which completely recharges itself via the process of driving it around, requiring no external power once it's been turned on. (Krystas pop album is called Teen Horniness is Not a Crime.) Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days.". Edit, Their role is explained a lot better in the graphic novels: they are the heads of the Neo-Marxists and are also street poets who have released several albums. Edit, Moments before the whole Fallujah incident, when Pilot and Roland were roping down their helicopter, Pilot is nervous so Roland gives him his iPod to listen to. Chemical Bleeders can see back in time while Natural Bleeders can see back and forward in time. The first time Fortunio appears in the film, he quotes Karl Marx ("Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval"), and several characters quote the song "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction ("We saw the shadows of the morning light/ The shadows of the evening sun/ Until the shadows and the light were one"). 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Southland Tales begins on Independence Day 2005 in an eminently recognizable Bush-era Texas. Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . Blue, in an hour you feel new, and you can forget about Mellow yellow or Agent Orange, 'cause hey, I'm giving you blood red." "3 Steps" by Moby9. Dr. Severin Exx read Krysta the Book of Revelation while she was under hypnosis. In particular, Southland Tales apes his Four Lines, All Waiting style of plotting, his sci-fi meets religion Mind Screw nuttiness, his themes of identity and counterfeits, his gratuitous mixing of high literature and pop culture references, his Medium Awareness twists about characters believing fiction is secretly communicating to them, and an The filmmaker stated that discussions are ongoing as to whether the projects should be released as films or in a long-form format through a streaming service.[46]. As Treer employees were interviewing the plane's passengers, they noticed that she was the only passenger who didn't suffer from amnesia and that she could see into the future. They are available together in the one graphic novel as Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga. "Look Back In" by Moby5. Taverner reveals that he hasn't produced a bowel movement in six days. Southland Tales encapsulates these anxieties in the form of US-IDent, a state agency that can hear and see everyone in America at all times. Ambitious and arresting to the eye -- the gray palette serves the film well -- it's too bad that Southland Tales is also pretentious, chaotic, and tries too hard. Roland, a Hermosa Beach police officer, became involved in a "deep conspiracy" and he would be in grave danger if anyone found out that he was alive. And "pimp?" When Krysta mentions that she is sleeping with Boxer Santaros, Cyndi decides to use this information to blackmail Boxer's father-in-law: Republican candidate Bobby Frost. According to Serpentine, "The future is just as [he] imagined.". So "The Power" is an adaptation of the Book of Revelation, written by a character in a movie called "Southland Tales" that is itself an adaptation of a screenplay based on the Book of Revelation? Reading the graphic novels shows that she had the revelation of the screenplay, which happened (more or less) as she said it would, much as the book of revelation was occurring (more or less) as John had proposed it. It opened in Canada, as well as nationwide in the United States, in just 63 theaters,[6] on November 16, 2007. When scientists injected fluid karma into the soldiers, they became telepathic and could see into the past and, eventually, the future. I also watched it because at present there is something satisfying about an apocalypse story that suggests humanity may be too dumb, too self-interested and too naturally violent to survive. | Filmed in 2005, it was produced on a reasonable budget of under 20 million and had a hip as hell cast including Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Smith, Mandy Moore and Wallace Shawn. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in timecreating duplicate versions of themselves. As in "Southland Tales," a character in "Kiss Me Deadly" picks up a stranger in the desert, and one of the main characters in the film is named after a poet. Two souls join into one, the forth dimension collapses. It is unhinged, and occasionally exhilarating, and quite often funny. But they're in there. "[34] A handful of the American and European critics, however, were more positive. For "Southland Tales," he loosely adapted the plot of the Book of Revelation and set it in an alternate version of the present day. The first time Fortunio appears in the film, he quotes Karl Marx ("Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval"), and several characters quote the song "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction ("We saw the shadows of the morning light/ The shadows of the evening sun/ Until the shadows and the light were one"). If this is a parallel with the Book of Revelation, then who's whom? Metacritic Reviews. That's why Taverner always feels so guilty.The Baron used the drug to keep everyone under control and on a leash but did not realise that each person under the influence of Fluid Karma can communicate with one another. The quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Boxer receives a phone call from Starla Von Luft -- who is still under the impression that she is Dr. Muriel Fox -- and tells him to call Vaughn Smallhouse, one of Frost's assistants. Starla Von Luft, the double-crossing USIDent employee, is reading a copy of "The Power" at work. The three perform an abstract dance. The project was named "Serpentine Dream Theory.," which aimed to use the telepathic effect of the drug as an advantage for the soldiers on the battlefield.Two of the solders that participated in the experiment were Roland Taverner and Pilot Abilene. Boxer gets into a convertible and drives off. Ronald walks up to Martin Kefauver's Hummer, which is parked near the ocean. Also, they had sex. When Fortunio and Boxer arrive at the rendezvous point, this is where the two are introduced to one another Southland 's heart-pounding and ultimately heart-breaking final hour centered around the hunt for the two meth heads who killed one of the LAPD's own in last week's captivating episode. A conversation between Zora and Ronald in "Fingerprints" (Book 2 of the graphic novels) sheds some light on this: Serpentine explains that the world is coming to an end; the rotation of the Earth is slowing at a rate of .000000006 mile per hour every day. The false prophet and the Antichrist will create a dominating world system. Cane loses consciousness. There already exist generators powered by rivers or by wind, which clearly do not contravene physical law. Published May 20, 2016. While Ronald is briefly distracted, Boxer is beckoned over by Serpentine, who has been hovering nearby. It tells the story of Jericho Cane, a renegade Los Angeles police officer (and Boxer Santaros doppelgnger), who teams up with Dr. Muriel Fox, a psychic stripper (and Krysta Now doppelgnger), to protect a baby named Caleb. Serpentine explains that the world is coming to an end; the rotation of the Earth is slowing at a rate of .000000006 miles per hour every day. Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. "Southland Tales" also borrows from "Repo Man," which ends with a flying car. On January 25th Arrow Video released a Blu Ray double pack of Richard Kelly's 2006 film Southland Tales.Disc 1 includes a new 2K restoration of the Theatrical Cut, along with a new retrospective documentary on the legacy and making of the film, while Disc 2 contains the longer, rarely seen Cannes Cut, which screened at that festival back in '06 to a glacial response. He climbs out and walks up to the nearby ice cream truck. Just before it hits, Boxer extends his arms, and his tattoo of Jesus begins to bleed in the nape of his neck. A pregnant woman, a dragon and two beasts; They are the puppets of the Anti-ChristRevelation 22:12: "[44], In a 2013 interview, Kelly said he considered this work as "the thing that I'm most proud of, and I feel like it's sort of the misunderstood child or the banished child. "Samuel Goldwyn to handle US distribution of Southland Tales", "Universal, Wild Bunch board Southland Tales", This Maligned 2006 Movie About Dystopian L.A. Is Too Real at This Point. It's too bad, because "Southland Tales" is one of the more interesting and ambitious American films in recent memory. Boxer (The Rock) dances with Krysta (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Madeline (Mandy Moore); he stops dancing, knowing that he's going to die, and the tattoo of Jesus on his back starts bleeding. Liberal extremist cells start to emerge, including a group called the Neo-Marxists. But despite the reaction, Kelly managed to secure a distribution deal and, on Nov. 14, released a shortened version of the film in U.S. theaters. It features 3 tracks by Moby that have not been released commercially: "Water Pistol", "It Looks Down" and "Ceanograph".Southland Tales OST Tracklist1. The feature film comprises the final three parts of the experience. Messiah ( forgives sins)"I forgive you. The only new special feature announced was an audio commentary by Kelly. Southland Tales premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and received so much negative feedback that the studio reworked the film. These are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of Babylon. Your body would learn to how to absorb all nutrients into the body, making defecation unnecessary.RONALD: "Hmmm. When he first discovered the rift, we learn, the Baron decided that the first human to travel through the rift would be a movie star and that movie star would be Boxer Santaros. 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