He has written for the Globe & Mail, the Village Voice and other publications. What's the deal with the "I'm a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide" motto? In fact, Marx was indirectly influenced by the Book of Revelation in his writing. The Tangent Universe is an alternate reality to our own. Edit, Boxer Santaros: [28][29] After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. 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. Shortly after they received their first injection of fluid karma, however, Taverner and Abilene were sent on a mission to Fallujah, and Taverner accidentally injured Abilene with a grenadedisfiguring him. It does get easier to understand, though, if you've read the Book of Revelation. With many repeated usage, Chemical Bleeders can sometimes see both ways (ahead and back in time). He played a character named "Donnie" in a movie with Boxer Santaros. Background newscasts in "Southland Tales" are also constantly referring to earthquakes, wild fires and "red tides." In Donnie Darko, the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of Southland Tales. "ZORA: "You just wait and see." ------------------------------------------. He has the solution to the energy crisis and becomes the most powerful man on earth. That would be Fluid Karma. Edit, No. Special features include a 33-minute documentary USIDent TV: Surveiling the Southland and a 10-minute animated short film This Is the Way the World Ends (which was not included on the R2 and R4 editions). Is the soundtrack availiable for the film? 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. Roland Taverner, his (alleged) twin -- a racist cop -- is sitting unconscious in the main room, having been kidnapped and drugged by the Neo-Marxists. the Indian chief Boxer encounters in the graphic novels). On July 4th, 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas (El Paso and Abilene) were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks, killing thousands and triggering a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending America into a state of chaos and hysteria, as well as a Third World War (a fictionalized version of what the nation may have become under the War on Terror), with the US government re-introducing the draft. Starla Von Luft, the double-crossing USIDent employee, is reading a copy of "The Power" at work. 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. Edit, Other than a name made up by Richard Kelly, an interpretation can be that the words "fortune" (fortunate) and "bald" can be taken from the name, and used to describe the character. "[40] David Edelstein's review in New York magazine criticized the film's writing, "Kelly aims high and must have shot off his own ear, which is the only way to account for the dialogue. As a tie-in, Kelly has also produced three graphic novels ("Two Roads Diverge," "Fingerprints" and "The Mechanicals" -- now available as "Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga") that explain the film's back story. It was first released in 2006 to almost uniformly terrible reviews, and has since found an audience with fans who love it for its great ambition, its disdain for common sense, and its prescient use of neo-Marxism, internet censorship and celebrity sex-tapes as harbingers of the future. Cane loses consciousness. One of these was a rift created in the fourth dimensionthe fourth dimension being time itselfat Lake Meade, which was discovered when an airplane flew through it and had all its passengers left with amnesia (bar oneKrysta Now, who gained psychic abilities from it). This is the way the world ends not with a bang, but with a fascinating near three-hour disaster of a movie, as deranged as Heavens Gate and as distinctively mid-Noughties as a Juicy Couture tracksuit. Chemical Bleeders can see back in time while Natural Bleeders can see back and forward in time. (Krystas pop album is called Teen Horniness is Not a Crime.) For "Southland Tales," he loosely adapted the plot of the Book of Revelation and set it in an alternate version of the present day. Edit, It is implied that they are either divorced or brother and sister. Somehow I doubt that will ever happen. Nowadays, the debate surrounding freedom, privacy,. Original music was provided by Moby . He follows her to the back of a bookstore, where the rest of the baron's entourage is waiting. Edit, Not really, but it explains why the tattoo of Jesus on the back of Boxer's neck starts bleeding at the end of the film. "Southland Tales" opens on July 4, 2005, in Abilene, Texas. All of these references to Marxism aren't entirely unconnected to the film's biblical references. Elsewhere in the building, Ronald Taverner (Seann William Scott) is in the bathroom, looking at his reflection. 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. We quickly learn that the United States is running low on gas and has cut a deal with a "renegade scientist" named Baron Von Westphalen (Wallace Shawn) and his company, Treer. Boxer, although he does not remember it, is married to the daughter of a Republican senator who is in turn the brains behind an agency called US-IDent, which controls what citizens can and cannot see on the internet. How would that work? Why did Roland Taverner end up driving Boxer Santaros through the space-time rift? The second section of the film ("V: Memory Gospel") begins. Edit, We're not entirely sure. Suddenly, a bright light appears through windows and a mushroom cloud rises in the distance: Abilene has been nuked. They will reign forever and ever"Revelation 12 and 13: Thomas Rogers is Salon's former Arts Editor. [4][5], Along with two other American filmmakers (Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation), Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko was in competition for the coveted Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival[32] and was screened on May 21 at the Grand Lumiere Theater. | The site's consensus states: "Southland Tales, while offering an intriguing vision of the future, remains frustratingly incoherent and unpolished. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, Thumbprint identification is becoming much more prominent. There is no real-life equivalent to the movie's "organic compound" which grants people telepathy etc. When Southland Tales was released in 2006, it confounded filmgoers.A dense, sprawling science-fiction tale, Southland Tales throws the war on terror, the surveillance state, Hollywood, and the Book of Revelation into a blender and purees that unlikely mix into a stylish, acerbic film that we're still trying to figure out. Would a tide-powered electrical generator actually contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Protector of the Messiah/False ProphetRoland Taverner: Violence has erupted throughout the city. This is where "Operation Dream Theory" came into play. Kelly wrote them while making the film and found it very difficult as it pushed him "to the edge of my own sanity", as he remarked in an interview.[18]. In the graphic novels, Krysta says it's Boxer's favourite film. Kelly has said that this idea was inspired by a real U.S. Army project. In the universe of the film, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen is also the granddaughter of Jenny Von Westphalen, Karl Marx's wife. Where does the information in this FAQ come from? The quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. "Lucky Me" by Roger Webb8. 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. Although it's part of a different section in the book, Revelation also refers to the Whore of Babylon -- dressed in scarlet and covered in gold -- as a symbol of Babylon's corruption. Roland runs to meet him inside the ice cream truck. "Southland Tales" opens on July 4, 2005, in Abilene, Texas. Boxer appears at the Santa Monica pier to meet Starla Von Luft. She says "The religion that is the winner of the contest will bleed" The Cannes boo is the annual terrorist attack of . This would be a perpetual motion machine, and could not work. Janeane Garofalo appears as General Teena MacArthur. It is unhinged, and occasionally exhilarating, and quite often funny. "Memory Gospel" by MobySongs Not Featured in on the soundtrackFrom the album Hotel by Moby (2-CD Deluxe Edition): "Snowball (played in opening sequence before opening title) "Blue Paper" (played when Dion and Dream are having discussion about bowel movements, also in trailer) "Overland" (heard before and after Pilot's dream sequence) "Aerial" "Hotel Intro" (featured in Cannes cut, not in theatrical cut) "Live Forever" (featured in Cannes cut, not in theatrical cut)Other songs not featured: Water Pistol" by Moby "If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)" by Louis Armstrong "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers "Planet Telex (Live in San Francisco)" by Radiohead Symphony No. This is because, at the end of the day, Southland Tales is a very indulgent, very silly and weirdly endearing film that all manages to come together in a near indescribable sweet spot. How did the Taverners end up with the Neo-Marxists in Venice Beach? Edit, Yes, there is a soundtrack available to buy, from Amazon.com or any other retailer that specializes in music. Edit, Three days before the movie starts, Krysta Now was vacationing on a houseboat on Lake Mead with Ronald Taverner, Tab Taverner (Ronald's father) and Fortunio Balducci. Edit, It means "let them hate, so long as they fear", Caligula's favorite saying, attributed originally to Lucius Accius, Roman tragic poet (170 BC). Roland manages to escape, climb onto the roof, and fall into a dumpster. The Baron phones Simon Theory (Kevin Smith), an old bearded man, and instructs him to "remove the body from Utopia Three.". Why does the messiah (e.g. Why is 'Kiss Me Deadly' featured numerous times in the film? Most of the information in this FAQ can be attributed to three main sources:The three graphic novels that serve as a precursor to Southland Tales. The Book of Revelation is the last book in the New Testament. Holmes Osborne plays conservative Senator Bobby Frost, Will Sasso plays Fortunio Balducci and Christopher Lambert plays Walter Mung. It exists under the Earth's mantle, circles the world like a "serpent," and, as the movie explains, is being used by the Baron to power his Utopia energy plants. The world ends. "Southland Tales" also borrows from "Repo Man," which ends with a flying car. Roger Ebert called it "the most disastrous Cannes press screening since, yes, 'The Brown Bunny.'" [26], Southland Tales was initially planned to be a nine-part "interactive experience", with the first six parts published in six 100-page graphic novels that would be released in a six-month period up to the film's release. Edit, Awards "[41], On the program Ebert & Roeper, Richard Roeper and guest critic Michael Phillips gave the film a negative review. Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake) quotes Biblical scripture from the Book of Revelation in narrating the film and allusion is made both to Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and an altered version of T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men. Roland and Ronald are the Messiah and in the end they find each other and save humanity through the power of forgiveness. The first chapter in the film ("IV: Temptation Waits") begins. "[28] Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen. Although he recognizes Madeline as his wife, she remains unimpressed and demands to know why he disappeared. Boxer joins her on the stage, followed by Madeline. That's why. Several days before the movie starts, on the same houseboat on Lake Mead, Tab Taverner, Ronald/Roland's father, told Ronald -- who has amnesia -- that he must kidnap his brother in order to protect him. Taken as a purely Christian parable, then this is the book of Revelations and God ending the world and humanity in it's present form. [It] restores an uncanny to American culture, she wrote in Fetishism and Curiosity, that the uncanny president disavows. In Southland Tales we have a movie whose frenetic, all-American surrealism its blend of censorship and sexuality, commerce and violence spookily pre-empted the prevailing culture under Donald Trump a decade before he was elected president. But if "Southland Tales" follows the same logic as "Donnie Darko," as laid out in that film's DVD extras, when the fourth dimension is corrupted, it causes the creation of two parallel universes: the Tangent Universe and the Primary Universe. Jericho Crane is a "John the Baptist" style prophet, Krysta is the "Whore of Babylon" (and her energy drink the "Cup of Abominations"), the Baron is the "Antichrist" etc "It will never be night again and they will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. Krysta Now is as contemporary a creation as if she had been born yesterday a sharp alembic of Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Riley Reid, she is the best thing about Kellys jaded, freaky vision of future Los Angeles by a Miracle Mile. 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. Just before it hits, Boxer extends his arms, and his tattoo of Jesus begins to bleed in the nape of his neck. Edit, He had fulfilled his purpose on the earth and as witness to the coming of the next age, saw his body as an empty shell and gave it away. He said, "[The original script] was more about making fun of Hollywood. There are now two versions of each co-existing in the same universetwo Boxer Santaros and two Roland Taverners. The release of Kellys first film, Donnie Darko, more or less coincided with the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. They claim to have read his screenplay. Southland Tales After twin terrorist attacks in Texas, the Republican party grabs the overwhelming majority of Congressional seats in the 2006 midterm elections by stoking public fear and claiming that America is living though the end times. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. etc., although it bears a resemblence to Eastern religious concepts such as Qi and Ki. Southland Tales (2007) Rated R for language, violence, sexual material and some drug content 160 minutes Cast Dwayne Johnson as Boxer Seann William Scott as Roland/Ronald Sarah Michelle Gellar as Krysta Kapowski/Krysta Now Curtis Armstrong as Dr. Soberin Exx Mandy Moore as Madeline Kevin Smith as Simon Theory Justin Timberlake as Abilene However, its inventor Baron von Westphalen and his associates are hiding the fact that the generators alter the ocean's currents and cause the Earth to slow its rotation, and that the transmission of Fluid Karma to portable receivers (via quantum entanglement) is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time. Again, we're not entirely sure. Why does Boxer keep twiddling his fingers? It turns out that Fortunio has been on the Baron's payroll all along. In "Southland Tales" the Earth's rotation IS actually slowing down BECAUSE of an inter-dimensional rift above Lake Meade. Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11 attacks. As the movie suggests, the Baron conducted secret experiments, headed by Simon Theory, with soldiers in Iraq. In the universe of the film, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen is also the granddaughter of Jenny Von Westphalen, Karl Marx's wife. I still don't know what that movie is about. Fortunio and his buddies break into USIDent, killing all of the employees, including Nana Mae Frost. For some reason, Wallace Shawn is dressed like a new-wave Japanese pimp. He is a pimp and pimps don't commit suicide.". How did the Taverners end up with the Neo-Marxists in Venice Beach? "In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. On this occasion the beginning of the end is predicted not by a high-schooler but by an adult performer: Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a former porn star, has shrugged off the bangs and whimpers of her previous employment with a new career as a Kardashian-style mogul, and a seer. A tide-powered generator, however, relies on an external source of power, the tides, and would not fall under that definition. Starla is in love with Boxer and, in a fit of delusion, has assumed the role of Dr. Muriel Fox, a character from the screenplay. 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. Three days before the movie starts, Krysta Now was vacationing on a houseboat on Lake Mead with Ronald Taverner, Tab Taverner (Ronald's father) and Fortunio Balducci. Amongst the songs not available on the soundtrack but featured in the film are Muse's "Blackout", The Killers' "All These Things That I've Done", and Blur's "Tender". At a beachside restaurant, Krysta Now meets Cyndi Pinziki (Nora Dunn), a porn producer with ties to the Neo-Marxist movement, to discuss Krysta's marketing plan. This has opened up a rift in the space-time continuum on the outskirts of Lake Mead. The reason for the exclusion of some of these tracks, like the song by The Killers was as a result of a dispute with the record label. But, unexpectedly, police officer Bart Buchman (Jon Lovitz) pulls up and shoots both of them for real. Using the graphic novels, the Book of Revelation, friends and whatever else we could find, we've pieced together everything you need to know (or at least everything we've been able to figure out) about "Southland Tales.". 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. This soundtrack has 41 tracks, 9 of which are sound bytes taken from the film. As he waves at himself in the mirror, he notices that his reflection's movements don't match his own. Edit, The name does not refer to anything other than the anagram and the late U.S. It's filled with so many references and so much self-conscious irony that it's nearly impossible to make sense of it all. "[39] In her review for the Los Angeles Times, Carina Chocano wrote, "You get the sense that Kelly is too angry to really find any of it funny. A pregnant woman, a dragon and two beasts; They are the puppets of the Anti-ChristRevelation 22:12: "Yes They Can! Published May 20, 2016. However, he has stated several times that if Sony commissioned one (based on the sales of the current DVD), he would happily be involved in a "Director's Cut" DVD in the future with more special features and deleted scenes from the Cannes cut. Edit, Most of the footage was a subplot between Kevin Smith's and Janeane Garofalo's characters (Simon Theory and General Teena MacArthur) where they discussed Operation Serpentine Dream Theory. "[37] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 44 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". "[29], The film remains enigmatic to many viewers and even some of its makers. Nana Mae Frost (Miranda Richardson), the wife of Republican candidate Bobby Frost, inaugurates the Los Angeles USIDent headquarters. Then why do people keep on injecting it into their neck? The final chapter of the film ("VI: Wave of Mutilation") begins. In Southland Tales we have a movie whose frenetic, all-American surrealism - its blend of censorship and sexuality, commerce and violence - spookily pre-empted the prevailing culture under Donald Trump a decade before he was elected president. I think defecation is the result of an inferior food supply and spiritual weakness. Roger Ebert described the Cannes screening as "The most disastrous since, yes, The Brown Bunny. Presumably, Tab was afraid that the Baron's people would find out that Roland had survived the trip through the time rift. Southland Tales is unashamedly maximalist, rushing through as many set pieces as Kelly can conjure whilst simultaneously touching upon practically every theme a work of art can contain. That's why he wakes up on the beach at the start of the movie. Or is it just bullshit by Richard Kelly? If this is a parallel with the Book of Revelation, then who's whom? As the movie suggests, the Baron conducted secret experiments, headed by Simon Theory, with soldiers in Iraq. Kelly sought more financing to finish visual effects for the film, and he negotiated a deal with Sony to cut down on the film's length in exchange for funds to complete the visual effects. But once they went through the rift, the car's self-destruct mechanism was activated, killing the copy of Boxer that did not travel back in time. 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. Roland, Ronald, Pilot, etc.) The other characters have all played their part and are redeemed in the end to enjoy eternal life. On March 25, 2009, the R2 DVD was released in France. 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, After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. 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. "ZORA: "A modified organic diet and transcendental meditation. Edit, Revelation 6:8: When it premiered in its original three-hour form at Cannes, last year, the response was acidic. They will start speaking out against the Antichrist and begin overthrowing the evil empire. Pilot Abilene, who has been watching the scene from his gun turret, shoots and kills Starla. Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. The restaurant starts floating into space. Inside the levitating ice cream truck, the two Taverners continue to hold hands. They have been collected together into one single volume: The titles of the parts in the film are:[27], The film premiered May 21, 2006, at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where it was poorly received. Before being drafted, Pilot Abilene was also a movie star. His colleague, Starla Von Luft (Michelle Durrett), has planted a bug on his jacket and is leading the police forces to their hideout. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. 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. Ronald persuades him not to commit suicide, and the two decide to go to Mexico. These are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of Babylon. Why would Martin let himself die after he killed everyone on the Mega-Zeppelin? Shortly after they received their first injection of fluid karma, however, Taverner and Abilene were sent on a mission to Fallujah, and Taverner accidentally injured Abilene with a grenade -- disfiguring him. "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death"Revelation 11: Eventually, the Antichrist will show up and take over the world. Muriel and Jericho take the child after its parents are killed, and, under Muriel's guidance, drive to a farmhouse, where they are met by Serpentine, the Baron's mistress. | Southland Tales is a 2006 American dystopian comedy thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly. 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