My Very Own Southland Tales Movie Critique
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by: Timothy Garza
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 Time: 11:00 AM
This may be Southland Tales just like Tales from Southern California, yet a new California, in which Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) happens to be an action star turned prophet, Justin Timberlake is actually a veteran of Iraq, Sean William Scott is really a set of twins, along with Sarah Michelle Gellar is a adult porn star called Krysta Now. "No-one rocks like Krysta Now." Or so we are informed. You won't ever actually see her and she is more than welcome.
Nevertheless the movie does not try to pander to the kind of audience who wish to see a flash. Really, it does not pander to anybody. It is by far and away the most experimental movie to leave Hollywood in recent times, in the event you discount David Lynch.
First of all, the movie version of Southland Tales is in fact chapters four, five and six. Hey if Star Wars did it... The initial three chapters are found in the Southland Tales graphic novel, which actually will work better in itself and of the film as a whole, explaining the different hypotheses behind the motion picture, whereas the movie itself drops the audience in the middle of a world which is far removed from the one all of us are now living in.
There is wi-fi energy known as Fluid Karma, a screenplay written while intoxicated by drugs that predicts the End Of Days, as well as freaky time travelling. So, everything you would expect from the brains behind Donnie Darko.
The actual movie is a mess, nevertheless an appealing one. The main disconnected plot is worried with the enigma that is the Book Of Revelations seen in the Bible, and you could view this as its modern cinematic counterpart. A few view Revelations like a puzzle to be solved, made up of a code to be dissected. Richard Kelly's movie is trying to push this, using the graphic novel and the movie's website to further the story and the puzzling plotlines within, quite literally forcing the audience to actively seek it out, or, as many people did, walk out of the theatre.
While this cross-media, story/puzzle thing is really a daring move, the film should stand on its own legs, which, sadly, it doesn't. It's weird and fantastic, annoying and infuriating, littered with good performances and godawful ones. It's going to undoubtedly follow Darko in being a cult film, in particular on DVD.
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