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. You know those overlooked classics that are critically ignored only to blossom into beautiful definitive works over time.like "Pinkerton" or "Starship Troo. Zelda Rubinstein and Beth Grant portray Dr. Katarina Kuntzler and Dr. Inga Von Westphalen, members of the baron's entourage. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. Edit, Those who use Fluid Karma are "Chemical Bleeders" (e.g. Although he recognizes Madeline as his wife, she remains unimpressed and demands to know why he disappeared. Ronald persuades him not to commit suicide, and the two decide to go to Mexico. She says "The religion that is the winner of the contest will bleed" When they join hands, a bond is formed and the rule of singular existence is completely broken. Everything and everyone is bedazzled in red, white, and blue; burgers and Buds are happily consumed on the lawn of every McMansion. ZORA: "You know there's this theory that humans will evolve to a state of existence where bowel movements are no longer necessary. A conversation between Zora and Ronald in "Fingerprints" (Book 2 of the graphic novels) sheds some light on this: It is unhinged, and occasionally exhilarating, and quite often funny. 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. Once it was discovered, they sent monkeys through it, which failed (Boxer claims that only a human soul could survive the trip). Suddenly, a bright light appears through windows and a mushroom cloud rises in the distance: Abilene has been nuked. 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. 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. Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. The screenplay ends at a McDonald's restaurant, when Caleb starts belching noxious gas and launching fireballs. 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. Southland Tales had a rough go of it. "ZORA: "A modified organic diet and transcendental meditation. And then you would miss all the jokes and stop enjoying the dance sequences. "In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. He learns that "The Power" is correct: As a result of the Baron's Utopia projects, the world is coming to an end and the Earth's rotation is slowing down. "Tiny Elephants" by Moby12. Published May 20, 2016. "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. Edit, Richard Kelly envisioned the story as being told across multiple formats. [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. I think defecation is the result of an inferior food supply and spiritual weakness. Scientists are saying the futures going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted, Krysta suggests, as if this helped to explain anything. If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. His colleague, Starla Von Luft (Michelle Durrett), has planted a bug on his jacket and is leading the police forces to their hideout. Most of the screenplay is included in The Prequel Saga. Where does the information in this FAQ come from? The movie and prequel saga focus a lot on the "blood red" version of the drug which gives the person using the drug ability to see, or "bleed", into the past, and with repeated use, the future. Together the two have written a screenplay, called "The Power," that tells the story of the end of the world. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire film magazine, The idea of wireless electricity and tides being a source of energy, and there being a potentially world-altering energy source under the ocean, is based on real scientific theory. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in timecreating duplicate versions of themselves. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. This release will include both the original theatrical cut and the Cannes cut. "Three Days [Live Version]" by Jane's Addiction15. 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. 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. [18] Much to his surprise, they loved it and wanted the film entered in competition for the Palme d'Or. "3 Steps" by Moby9. He called it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. The other main reference points are T.S. Starla Von Luft, the double-crossing USIDent employee, is reading a copy of "The Power" at work. The first three chapters of the story are told in a graphic novel called Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga, which among other things explains Roland Traveler's back story, Boxer's journey from the desert back to Los Angeles, and the true origin of Krysta and Boxer's screenplay. In June 2008, Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), an action movie star with ties to the Republican Party, disappears. As the movie suggests, the Baron conducted secret experiments, headed by Simon Theory, with soldiers in Iraq. For . A white light emerges from their hands and the ice cream truck starts floating. . Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock". 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. The Grey Horseman. 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. || Southland Tales Movie Ending Explained in English#endingexplained endingexplained Copyright Disclaimer: No Copyright in. Ten years ago, a critical audience at Cannes sealed 'Southland Tales' fate. According to their plan, Boxer is to videotape their faked murder. Its story overlaps with the movie, so it explains some of the back story. 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. 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. "[37] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 44 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Edit, Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. If "Southland Tales" is a semi-straightforward reinterpretation of the Book of Revelation, then Baron Von Westphalen is the Antichrist, Sen. Bobby Frost is probably his false prophet, Krysta Now is the Whore of Babylon, the two witnesses are probably Boxer Santaros and Roland Taverner, the white horse is the levitating ice cream truck, and Christ is Ronald and Roland Taverner. alternative fuel or the increasing obsession with celebrity and how celebrity now intertwines with politics". 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. Edit, Boxer Santaros: 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. Just before it hits, Boxer extends his arms, and his tattoo of Jesus begins to bleed in the nape of his neck. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Cheri Oteri plays Zora Carmichaels, while Jon Lovitz plays violent police officer Bart Bookman who is in love with Zora. Roland, a Hermosa Beach police officer, had gotten involved in a "deep conspiracy" and would be in danger if anybody found out that he was alive. 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"). What If He Is Dead, But He Is Not? Before Edward Snowden released information to the public about the NSA's numerous global surveillance programs, many people joked about the government spying on us through simple technology like our phones. The Second Law of Thermodynamics refers to a closed system, wherein entropy will accumulate and efficiency will diminish until the system stops. Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days." The name may also reference the actor Fortunio Bonanova who starred as Carmen Trivago in the film Kiss Me Deadly, itself a considerable influence on Southland Tales. Ronald Taverner and Baby Caleb in "The Power") not have a bowel movement? If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. Dr. Severin Exx read Krysta the Book of Revelation while she was under hypnosis. In "Southland Tales" the Earth's rotation IS actually slowing down BECAUSE of an inter-dimensional rift above Lake Meade. He is a pimp and pimps don't commit suicide.". She became psychic when a plane she was on -- United 23 -- flew through the rift in space-time above Lake Mead. Despite being critically and commercially unsuccessful, the film has developed a cult following in later years. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, He's the snake-oil salesman who shows up in Santa Monica with the elixir of God. Or, maybe it's just an hallucination from Fluid Karma that only the two of them can see (since Martin doesn't actually notice the light from his hands in the Hummer). The restaurant starts floating into space. If you haven't seen the movie and don't want to have it -- or the graphic novels -- spoiled, you should stop reading this right now. Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . Then why do people keep on injecting it into their neck? Tide power, and the wireless transmission of electricity, are scientific realities. Who was behind the attacks in Abilene and El Paso? The film also evokes Kurt Vonnegut's sci-fi absurdism, Philip K. Dick's philosophical approach to time travel, and Thomas Pynchon's sprawling narratives. But they're in there. "It will never be night again and they will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. The three perform an abstract dance. 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 It's filled with so many references and so much self-conscious irony that it's nearly impossible to make sense of it all. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. [28][29] After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. [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. Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. Then she pulls out her gun and threatens to kill herself unless she can give Boxer a blowjob. The name Treer is a reference to Trier, Marx's birthplace. Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, it had not begun. [36], 41% of 106 reviews compiled by review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes are positive, and the average rating is 4.9 out of 10. Tab wanted Ronald to help the Neo-Marxists destroy USIDent, so he entrusted Roland and Ronald to Zora Carmichaels, who then drove them to Venice Beach. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. He had Roland Taverner kidnap Boxer and drive him through the rift. 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. In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of Southland Tales. 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. 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). Roland, Ronald, Pilot, etc.) When it premiered in its original three-hour form at Cannes, last year, the response was acidic. Edit, Revelation 6:8: The mega-zeppelin explodes, and its pieces scatter across L.A. 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. 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. Due to the poor reception they received at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and still without a distributor, Richard Kelly went back and re-edited the film, trimming out 20-25 minutes worth of footage and adding approximately a hundred or so extra visual effects shots. For reasons that never become entirely clear, he was hired by the Baron to kidnap Boxer Santaros from a charity scavenger hunt and drive him to Lake Mead. There is no real-life equivalent to the movie's "organic compound" which grants people telepathy etc. 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. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut. 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Pilot Abilene, who has been watching the scene from his gun turret, shoots and kills Starla. [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. Kelly's movie may not be entirely coherent, but that's because there's so much it wants to say. If you read the graphic novel, you'll find the legend which is spoken by Bai Ling's character Serpentine. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. If these scenes are anything to go by, very minuscule moments in them that were cut can be noticed and they are now more compact and give the bare essentials in the theatrical cut. One theory is that duplicate souls from alternate timelines are not meant to exist together in a single timeline. I ended up watching it in lockdown because the film streaming service Mubi, which has released its library in full online, called it breathtaking, exuberant, and Pynchon-esque. What do all the characters in the film keep on quoting from? Edit, Richard Kelly has stated that "Kiss Me Deadly" is a huge influence on Southland Tales and that Boxer Santaros was modeled off that film's main character, Mike Hammer. 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. But, unexpectedly, police officer Bart Buchman (Jon Lovitz) pulls up and shoots both of them for real. Again, we're not entirely sure. Roland and Ronald are the Messiah and in the end they find each other and save humanity through the power of forgiveness. The word of God or the Apostle John. With the United States under the threat of nuclear attack, the lives of several people converge in a dystopian Los Angeles. Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. Edit, The term fluid karma is used to refer to two things in the movie. "Look Back In" by Moby5. It's also symbolism for the above quote: almost a foreboding for the ending of the film where Roland turns out to be the Messiah. The second section of the film ("V: Memory Gospel") begins. The world ends. 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 police break into Neo-Marxist headquarters and kill Kenny Chan. 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"). Roland manages to escape, climb onto the roof, and fall into a dumpster. This is a reference to a Philip K. Dick book called Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. 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. So the parallels with the Bible are kind of buried. Eventually, the Antichrist will show up and take over the world. Krysta Now stops by Zora's place to buy some drugs, when she notices the tape of Dream and Dion's murder on a chair. The final chapter of the film ("VI: Wave of Mutilation") begins. On edge after being put on desk duty and forced to see a shrink, a neighbor's crap generator sets Cooper off and leads to a bloody altercation. Defecation is a part of life. On the mega-zeppelin, Krysta Now performs a dance number. The original script was written 6 years ago just after Richard and his team returned from Sundance. "[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 . [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. 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. Unfortunately, Kefauver and Ronald's Hummer soon collides with the ice cream truck carrying Roland. She is pursued by Zora and Bart, who have discovered that Krysta has taken Dion and Dream's murder tape by mistake. The film follows the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros, an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now, a psychic exporn star in the midst of creating a reality TV show; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner, whose destinies become intertwined with that of all mankind. Boxer's original self was incinerated in a car bomb triggered by Serpentine, while the duplicate Boxer is still roaming. Does "Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga" explain what this fluid karma stuff is? Martin has just learned that he's been drafted to go to Iraq and is about to shoot himself in the head. 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. Metacritic Reviews. What's Justin Timberlake doing in all of this? Or is it just bullshit by Richard Kelly? They decided to take advantage of her powers. Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. For "Southland Tales," he loosely adapted the plot of the Book of Revelation and set it in an alternate version of the present day. Certainly, the future as depicted here is deeply complex. According to the "Prequel Saga," "The Power" was written entirely by Krysta Now, who is apparently psychic. "Southland Tales" feels insane because it tells a truth that most of us would rather ignore: that faced with the chaos of what feels like a disintegrating society and imperiled world, we would . The movie plays in the background in several scenes, and in the "Prequel Saga," Krysta tells Boxer it is his favorite movie. Lots of scary apocalyptic stuff will happen (judgment, plagues and the like), before Jesus Christ will ride in on a white horse and establish the new kingdom of God. And why is he having an affair with Krysta Now? At least that way, he isn't . In the universe of the film, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen is also the granddaughter of Jenny Von Westphalen, Karl Marx's wife. "ZORA: "You just wait and see." The Baron phones Simon Theory (Kevin Smith), an old bearded man, and instructs him to "remove the body from Utopia Three.". 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. But even with the changes, the film is still almost impossible to understand, a trait that probably hasn't helped its box office. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, He is the doomsday prophet, the witness of everything. 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. Shown with white shirt flecked with blood as Revelation describes the white horseman as wearing "A white robe flecked with blood." Why would Martin let himself die after he killed everyone on the Mega-Zeppelin? Happily, it never does, which allows you to share in his unabashed joy in filmmaking as well as in his fury about the times. It's a schizophrenic break. When cops arrive on the scene, he still doesn't stop,. He has the solution to the energy crisis and becomes the most powerful man on earth. It may seem really amateurish at first, letting things like that "this is the way the world ends" quote fly from all directions throughout the film. Roger Ebert described the Cannes screening as "The most disastrous since, yes, The Brown Bunny. The novel has obvious links in its plot with Southland Tales, and the story's main character is named Jason Taverner. "Very soon now, I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man according to what he deserves"Revelation 21? Jericho Cane is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "End of Days.". 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. One Taverner repeats, "friendly fire," while the other says, "I forgive you." And, of course, gets corrupted and goes mad. 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). He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. There are hundreds of these mechanical balls buried everywhere in the Southland. What happens in the screenplay? 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. The only new special feature announced was an audio commentary by Kelly. Edit, After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. It stinks and we have to accept it. Roland and Ronald (Seann William Scott) meet and shake hands. 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. Nana Mae Frost is also monitoring the entire situation from USIDent. 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." Roland runs to meet him inside the ice cream truck. This article is viewable at Salon.com here and is intended to give to viewer a better perception of the movie itself and answer questions not cleared up in the movie.An interview with Richard Kelly from the February issue of the film magazine Empire. Southland Tales grossed $275,380 in limited release at the North American box office and $99,363 in Turkey and United Kingdom for a worldwide total of $374,743,[6] against a production budget of $17 million. The Book of Revelation, or the Revelation of John, was written by an unknown person in the first century. Is "The Power" important for understanding "Southland Tales"? The baby, she explains, is the Messiah, and Jericho is his guardian. 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. Which quotes from the Books of Revelation are used in the film? 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. She tells him that he must board the mega-zeppelin and what he is looking for is in the Baron's private chamber. Comedy Drama Mystery During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. What do all the characters in the film keep on quoting from? Why does the movie start with Boxer Santaros asleep on a beach? What's the deal with the Treer company, and why are there all these references to Karl Marx? On October 26, 2020 Arrow Video announced a Remastered version approved by Richard Kelly will be released on Blu-ray on January 26, 2021. HitFix's Alan Sepinwall reviews "Reckoning," the season finale of the TNT cop drama "Southland," and says it worked as a perfect series-ender in the event of cancellation.