Support 100 years of independent journalism. "[29], The film remains enigmatic to many viewers and even some of its makers. 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. 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. Before being drafted, Pilot Abilene was also a movie star. Roland and Ronald (Seann William Scott) meet and shake hands. Eliot's "Hollow Men. Dr. Severin Exx read Krysta the Book of Revelation while she was under hypnosis. Edit, We're not entirely sure. | Running time: 160 minutes. These are all references to the seven plagues that precede the destruction of Babylon. Abilene injects himself with fluid karma, collapses, and, in a dream sequence, dances a routine to the Killers' "All The Things You've Done," while nurses twirl around him. "[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. The other characters have all played their part and are redeemed in the end to enjoy eternal life. As the movie explains, the compound is being used by the Baron to power his energy plants, hence the energy field produced is named after it.The compound also works as a drug, which comes in several forms with different effects, as mentioned by Pilot Abilene: "Green, you dream. Where does the information in this FAQ come from? There are hundreds of these mechanical balls buried everywhere in the Southland. In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of Southland Tales. Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days.". "The Star Spangled Banner" by Rebekah del Rio & The Section Quartet14. "[43] Manohla Dargis also gave the film a positive review in The New York Times, writing, "He doesn't make it easy to love his new film, which turns and twists and at times threatens to disappear down the rabbit hole of his obsessions. His follow-up is a decidedly post-9/11 story, haunted by the Iraq War. 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. Their hands begin to glow. 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. Edit, No. "In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. Martin climbs on top of the truck and launches a missile at the mega-zeppelin. 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. Eventually, the Antichrist will show up and take over the world. In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. So it's trying to say that our veterans are the biggest badasses that we have. For some reason, Wallace Shawn is dressed like a new-wave Japanese pimp. A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. She tells him that he must board the mega-zeppelin and what he is looking for is in the Baron's private chamber. Krysta has decided to make her sex tape public by placing it into a Neo-Marxist drop box. "[34] A handful of the American and European critics, however, were more positive. Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. He played a character named "Donnie" in a movie with Boxer Santaros (in an obvious allusion to "Donnie Darko"). The Second Law of Thermodynamics refers to a closed system, wherein entropy will accumulate and efficiency will diminish until the system stops. Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. Director Richard Kelly Writer Richard Kelly Stars Dwayne Johnson Sarah Michelle Gellar 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. He then asked her to forecast the last three days on Earth, and she made her prediction in the form of a screenplay: "The Power." Both vehicles come to a rest in the middle of a shootout and Walter Mung is killed. 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. Roger Ebert called it "the most disastrous Cannes press screening since, yes, 'The Brown Bunny.'" SOUTHLAND TALES is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. This release will include both the original theatrical cut and the Cannes cut. They will reign forever and ever." No one really knows (except Richard Kelly, of course) but the glow could be to establish a connection between the two Taverners, that they are two identical souls walking on the same plane. Kelly has claimed on his MySpace blog that he had very little time for the DVD as he was starting shooting on his next feature, The Box. As he waves at himself in the mirror, he notices that his reflection's movements don't match his own. Boxer meets Fortunio on the beach after his rendezvous with Starla. What does the phrase "Do You Bleed" mean? Unfortunately for the Neo-Marxists, their operative in USIDent, Kenny Chan, has been compromised. Edit, The name does not refer to anything other than the anagram and the late U.S. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut. Just before it hits, Boxer extends his arms, and his tattoo of Jesus begins to bleed in the nape of his neck. And, of course, gets corrupted and goes mad. [18] After the film's festival release, Southland Tales was purchased by Sony Pictures (via their label Destination Films) and Samuel Goldwyn Films, originally Sony Pictures Classics, Screen Gems and TriStar Pictures were up for US distribution rights. This is where "Operation Dream Theory" came into play. 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. 125, Second Movement "Molto Vivace", by Ludwig van Beethoven "Tender" by Blur "It Looks Down" by Moby "Ceanograph" by Moby (featured in Cannes cut, not in theatrical cut) "The Real Thing" by The Shakers "Blackout" by Muse Then, after several detours, Krysta and Boxer made their way to Los Angeles, where Boxer went on a nighttime stroll on the beach, injected himself with fluid karma and passed out. The Baron admits that he has been paying Krysta to deceive Boxer, but also mentions that Madeline is pregnant with the child of Brandt Huntington (Joe Campana), one of her father's assistants. 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. 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. The Treer company is a German defense contractor that employs Dr. Inga Von Westphalen, a zeppelin designer and the Baron's mother. It does get easier to understand, though, if you've read the Book of Revelation. So what's causing the Earth to slow down ? The generators depicted in the film, and similar real-life power sources, are not closed systems but open ones. External Reviews What exactly happens at the end of the movie? They also added in a newly animated opening prologue called the Doomsday Scenario Interface. The baby, she explains, is the Messiah, and Jericho is his guardian. Additionally, tracks from Radiohead, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Kris Kristofferson, and several tracks from Moby's Hotel:Ambient are likewise absent from the album. Edit, The film was originally meant to be released in the autumn of 2006 but was pushed back a year to a limited release in the winter of 2007. Why would Martin let himself die after he killed everyone on the Mega-Zeppelin? The quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. [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. This would be a perpetual motion machine, and could not work. 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. However, there are several in the graphic novel "The Prequel Saga." If you'd like to skip directly to our question-and-answer section, click here. What follows is a hyperkinetic Fox News-style summary of the following three years in the "Southland Tales'" alternate universe: After the nuclear attacks in Texas, the United States reinstates the draft, and by October 2005, war (sponsored by Hustler and Bud Light) breaks out with Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea and Iraq -- where Pilot Abilene, the film's narrator, is injured in a friendly-fire accident. 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. 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. She would, I think, make a good president. Original music was provided by Moby . Ronald and Martin Kefauver pull up to the Rove Credit Union where Kefauver tries to withdraw his savings. Then, two "witnesses" will appear. ZORA: "You know there's this theory that humans will evolve to a state of existence where bowel movements are no longer necessary. Inside the levitating ice cream truck, the two Taverners continue to hold hands. If that wasnt enough, a German company whose CEO is played by Wallace Shawn has invented an infinite energy source called fluid karma. Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, it had not begun. His musical dream sequence, which is actually a drug-induced telepathic thing, is the emotional center of the whole piece, since he was accidentally disfigured by his friend. In "Donnie Darko," the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of "Southland Tales." The film was released on Region 4 DVD in Australia on April 30, 2008. This means that Christianity has won the "contest" for Earth and is the one true faith. The movie plays in the background in several scenes, and in the "Prequel Saga," Krysta tells Boxer it is his favorite movie. According to their plan, Boxer is to videotape their faked murder. Donnie Darko had just debuted there in January of 2001 and as soon as he got back, Richard. Once there, Boxer meets Simon Theory, one of the Baron's employees. A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. Back when the film was released in Cannes, three scenes were released on YouTube (which have long since been rendered unavailable): Boxer and Krysta talking with Roland about their film, Fortunio watching Krysta's show "Now", and Krysta's meeting with Cyndi Pinziki. 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. NEXT UP REVOLVER (2005)!Southland Tales competed for. 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. Feb. 7, 2021. Roland manages to escape, climb onto the roof, and fall into a dumpster. In near-future 2008, Los Angeles (referred to as "The Southland" by locals) is a dystopian[8] city on the brink of chaos overshadowed by the growth of an underground neo-Marxist organization. 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. Then she pulls out her gun and threatens to kill herself unless she can give Boxer a blowjob. Ronald Taverner, meanwhile, has picked up Zora and Bing Zinneman, a new member of the Neo-Marxists. Starla Von Luft, the double-crossing USIDent employee, is reading a copy of "The Power" at work. For . 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. : The anagram of his name, FREAK MAN VIRTUE is most important, foreshadowing the ultimate destiny of Martin in the film. 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. After losing a game of cards, Fortunio needed to make his way back into California, and Krysta offered to set him up with a visa. Edit, Boxer Santaros: What does the name Martin Kefauver refer to, other than to its anagram "Freak Man Virtue" and the late U.S. senator? Neo-Marxist cells have begun to converge on central Los Angeles. 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. the Indian chief Boxer encounters in the graphic novels). Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. Edit, In the 1980s British TV comedy 'Allo 'Allo!, the right-hand man of Herr Flick of the Gestapo is called "von Smallhausen", so maybe that's where Kelly drew his inspiration from. Meanwhile, using a sex tape given to her by Krysta Now, Cyndi Pinziki is blackmailing Frost for money and demanding the passage of Proposition 69 (a bill that restricts USIDent's powers). [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. They can use their telepathy as an advantage this way. Lukas Dhonts Close explores the abrupt end of boyhood, Martin McDonaghs The Banshees of Inisherin: a brilliantly nasty Irish fable, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. 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. Its plot hinges on a barely explained back story involving rifts in the fourth dimension. These are (Book 1) Two Roads Diverge, (Book 2) Fingerprints and (Book 3) The Mechanicals. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. In the "Southland Tales" universe, when war broke out following the nuclear attacks in Texas, Treer was contracted to build several mega-zeppelins to ferry troops and equipment across the world. In the graphic novels, Krysta says it's Boxer's favourite film. Zora abruptly pushes Ronald from the car, and runs over Bing. A tide-powered generator, however, relies on an external source of power, the tides, and would not fall under that definition. A white light emerges from their hands and the ice cream truck starts floating. [19] Kelly describes the negative reaction at Cannes as a "very painful experience on a lot of levels" but ultimately felt that the film "was better off because of it". Ultimately, we may have to vote with our thumbs at some point. For "Southland Tales," he loosely adapted the plot of the Book of Revelation and set it in an alternate version of the present day. 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. During their discussion, they learn that Ronald has been dreaming of Boxer. Also, they had sex. "[37] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 44 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Treer knew of these effects and decided to use it to their advantage in the war. Everything and everyone is bedazzled in red, white, and blue; burgers and Buds are happily consumed on the lawn of every McMansion. The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizenseven to the extent of censoring the Internet and requiring fingerprints to access computers and bank accounts. "And God wiped the tears from his eyes, so the new Messiah could see out to the New Jerusalem." Things certainly ended on a dark note for many of the characters on the "Southland" season finale, but the final moments left fans' jaws on the ground in a cliffhanger that may never be resolved. 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. [35] The Village Voice critic J. Hoberman, for example, called Southland Tales "a visionary film about the end of times" comparable in recent American film only to David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Set in the then-near future of 2008, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles, and a satiric commentary on the militaryindustrial complex and the infotainment industry. "[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. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. He has written for the Globe & Mail, the Village Voice and other publications. It's too bad, because "Southland Tales" is one of the more interesting and ambitious American films in recent memory. | What's up with Baron Von Westphalen (Wallace Shawn)? "[12] He described the film as a "tapestry of ideas all related to some of the biggest issues that I think we're facing right now . Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days." It has a similar plot to "Southland Tales," but with different characters and more gratuitous product placement. Roland and Ronald are the Messiah and in the end they find each other and save humanity through the power of forgiveness. We zoom out to a satellite view, revealing that another nuclear bomb has been detonated in El Paso. Southland Tales EXPLAINED - Breakdown & Heavy Analysis - YouTube FOR MORE MOVIE EXPLANATION VIDEOS PLEASE LIKE AND COMMENT THIS VIDEO! The White Horseman, with his rifle post being his horse and his rifle his bow. All of these references to Marxism aren't entirely unconnected to the film's biblical references. Two souls join into one, the forth dimension collapses. [19], Many critics responded unfavorably to the film's long running time and sprawling nature. 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. The soundtrack does not feature all the music from the film, probably due to rights/royalties issues. This is the way the world ends, its characters intone, in an admittedly inane twist on TS Eliot, not with a whimper, but with a bang.. Kelly sent the organizers of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival a rough cut of Southland Tales on DVD assuming that it would not be accepted. The site's consensus states: "Southland Tales, while offering an intriguing vision of the future, remains frustratingly incoherent and unpolished. 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. The purpose of these novels is to explain much of the back-story and set the viewer up for parts IV, V and VI in the movie itself. [28][29] After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. Edit, No one really knows, it's never implied in the film who was behind it-Richard Kelly did mention he was given an article called "American Hiroshima" which revolved this plan of Al-Qaeda's to buy nuclear weapons off Russian mobsters and smuggle them into Texas over the Mexican border and detonate them in mid-sized cities. It's a schizophrenic break. The Grey Horseman. 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. He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. We'll begin with a recap of the film. Eliot's "Hollow Man" ("This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but with a whimper") and Robert Frost's "The Two Roads" ("Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-/ I took the one less traveled by"). 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. Fortunio's goons inject Boxer with fluid karma and load him into an ambulance. 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. The world ends. As the movie suggests, the Baron conducted secret experiments, headed by Simon Theory, with soldiers in Iraq. "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death"Revelation 11: Richard Kellys Southland Tales, a science-fiction comedy about the aftermath of the Third World War, is set in Los Angeles circa 2008, roughly three years after a sudden nuclear attack on Texas. As they hold hands, the truck begins to float into the sky with Martin Kefauver on board. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. If the two Taverners were to touch, Theory warns, the fourth dimension would collapse onto itself and the world would come to an end. The Book of Revelation is the last book in the New Testament. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in time -- creating duplicate versions of themselves. They decided to take advantage of her powers. ------------------------------------------. The director also sought to keep the musical number performed by Timberlake, based on "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers which he felt was the heart and soul of the film. Edit, Awards They are available together in the one graphic novel as Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga. Edit, It is implied that they are either divorced or brother and sister. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Happily, it never does, which allows you to share in his unabashed joy in filmmaking as well as in his fury about the times. As a result, Boxer was duplicated. In the hopes of helping you make sense of the movie, we've decided to unravel "Southland Tales" as we've done for "Mulholland Drive," "The Wire" and, of course, "Donnie Darko." Also, they had sex. [45], Kelly later expressed regret in releasing the latter chapters first through the original film, stating that this placed the audience at a disadvantage. 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