In this article, Kelly is interviewed about some of the less straightforward aspects of Southland Tales. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, She was designed as a sort of Arianna Huffington meets Jenna Jameson. Feb. 7, 2021. 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. 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." Kelly's previous cult masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001) and the . All three graphic novels were written by Richard Kelly, with artwork by Brett Weldele. Where does that qualifying characteristic for a messiah come from? Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11 attacks. 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. Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, it had not begun. 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 An audacious near-future pop fever dream under the guise of blockbuster aesthetics, "Southland Tales" starred Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a movie star who keeps forgetting his past, Sarah. The police break into Neo-Marxist headquarters and kill Kenny Chan. "[41], On the program Ebert & Roeper, Richard Roeper and guest critic Michael Phillips gave the film a negative review. Southland Tales had a rough go of it. The Second Law of Thermodynamics refers to a closed system, wherein entropy will accumulate and efficiency will diminish until the system stops. 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.. 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." In response to the recent fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy, which is propelled by the perpetual motion of ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma". Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. The New Statesmans global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. A conversation between Zora and Ronald in "Fingerprints" (Book 2 of the graphic novels) sheds some light on this: Certainly, the future as depicted here is deeply complex. "Look Back In" by Moby5. 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"). Fortunio's goons inject Boxer with fluid karma and load him into an ambulance. Edit, Those who use Fluid Karma are "Chemical Bleeders" (e.g. the Indian chief Boxer encounters in the graphic novels). 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. Director: Richard Kelly. "And God wiped the tears from his eyes, so the new Messiah could see out to the New Jerusalem." 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. The restaurant starts floating into space. All of these references to Marxism aren't entirely unconnected to the film's biblical references. but those who do not but still feel the effects of Fluid Karma are known as "Natural Bleeders" (e.g. "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 . Boxer gets into a convertible and drives off. The name Treer is a reference to Trier, Marx's birthplace. 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. "[5], In January 2021, Richard Kelly announced that developments are underway to expand the film into a franchise with intention being that the original cast return. What's the deal with this screenplay-within-the-movie that all the characters keep referring to? When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in timecreating duplicate versions of themselves. Fifteen years after Southland Tales was booed out of the Cannes Film Festival, director Richard Kelly tells Inverse he embraces the chorus of jeers. Ben's path down the dark side finally caught up to him when Sammy put the pieces together. Ten years ago, a critical audience at Cannes sealed 'Southland Tales' fate. 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. What's the relation between Walter Mung and Veronica "Dream" Mung? In 2021, Kelly announced that there are developments to expand the film into a franchise. The novel has obvious links in its plot with Southland Tales, and the story's main character is named Jason Taverner. [38], Glenn Kenny, in his review for Premiere criticized the film's style, "Kelly's camera placement and framing are at best textbook and at worst calamitously mediocre. "Chord Sounds" by Moby7. 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. What exactly happens at the end of the movie? How did the Taverners end up with the Neo-Marxists in Venice Beach? It stinks and we have to accept it. Much of Pilot Abilene's voiceover consists of direct quotations from the Book of Revelation. Fortunio and his buddies break into USIDent, killing all of the employees, including Nana Mae Frost. As the movie suggests, the Baron conducted secret experiments, headed by Simon Theory, with soldiers in Iraq. "[28] Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen. Boxer and Roland run out in a panic. Links to many post-Cannes reviews, including multiple positive reviews by American, French, Spanish, Polish, and other reviewers. Once Krysta departs, Boxer receives a phone call from Starla instructing him to go to the Santa Monica pier. Also, they had sex. 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. || Southland Tales Movie Ending Explained in English#endingexplained endingexplained Copyright Disclaimer: No Copyright in. Ultimately, we may have to vote with our thumbs at some point. The original script involved blackmail, a porn star, and two cops. "[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. According to Serpentine, "The future is just as [he] imagined.". 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. All of these references to Marxism aren't entirely unconnected to the film's biblical references. Senator. 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. Edit, After Roland Taverner came back from Iraq, he got a job as a police officer in Hermosa Beach, thanks to his father. It does get easier to understand, though, if you've read the Book of Revelation. It's a schizophrenic break. Two of the solders that participated in the experiment were Roland Taverner and Pilot Abilene. Its depiction of an American teenager experiencing premonitions about doomsday clocks and jet crashes suddenly became more piquant in light of such astounding tragedy. Edit, Operation Dream Theory was an experiment created by Treer. 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. Before being drafted, Pilot Abilene was also a movie star. Tide power, and the wireless transmission of electricity, are scientific realities. Kelly's movie may not be entirely coherent, but that's because there's so much it wants to say. 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. But they're in there. Original music was provided by Moby. 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. Edit, Richard Kelly stated in his interview with Empire, If Roland Taverner pulls the trigger and kills himself, the ice-cream truck will fall and the gateway it opens will close, and it's that gateway that may be humankind's salvation, so suicide represents surrendering to defeat. 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. Dr. Severin Exx read Krysta the Book of Revelation while she was under hypnosis. It never becomes clear what exactly happened in the desert. 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"). 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. | Its story overlaps with the movie, so it explains some of the back story. Why did Roland Taverner end up driving Boxer Santaros through the space-time rift? 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. "Oh My Angel" by Bertha Tillman3. 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. The song he listens to is "All These Things I've Done" by The Killers, while he was listening to the song, the "friendly fire" incident occurs. [16] Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."[14]. Background newscasts in "Southland Tales" are also constantly referring to earthquakes, wild fires and "red tides." 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." Who was behind the attacks in Abilene and El Paso? But, unexpectedly, police officer Bart Buchman (Jon Lovitz) pulls up and shoots both of them for real. They will start speaking out against the Antichrist and begin overthrowing the evil empire. The only new special feature announced was an audio commentary by Kelly. 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]. That's why he wakes up on the beach at the start of the movie. The false prophet and the Antichrist will create a dominating world system. Kids are shooting home video of their Independence Day barbecue. Is it just me, or did that make no sense? In Donnie Darko, the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of Southland Tales. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. [18] Kelly's film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 with a length of 160 minutes. 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. 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." 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. Treer knew of these effects and decided to use it to their advantage in the war. Through voiceover, we learn that Pilot Abilene was injected with fluid karma in Iraq, as part of an experiment by the Baron, and in his quest for global domination, the Baron has negotiated an agreement with the prime minister of Japan, Hideo Takahashi, for fluid karma. What's the deal with the Treer company, and why are there all these references to Karl Marx? At their Venice Beach headquarters, we meet the rest of the Neo-Marxists, including Veronica "Dream" Mung (Amy Poehler) and Dion Element (Wood Harris). Running time: 160 minutes. "Broken Hearted Savior" by Big Head Todd & The Monsters10. Then why do people keep on injecting it into their neck? 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. 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). How would that work? 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. In "Donnie Darko," the world ends when the Tangent Universe collapses, which may also be what happens at the end of "Southland Tales." Why that happens when the Taverners touch, only Richard Kelly knows. So the parallels with the Bible are kind of buried. 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. Meanwhile, Martin Kefauver (Lou Pucci), a young man dressed in hip-hop gear, meets Pilot Abilene at the "Fire" Arcade, where he exchanges pot for fluid karma. The film is an international co-production of the United States, Germany and France. "[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. Also, they had sex. The world ends. Elsewhere, in a luxurious apartment, Boxer crawls into bed with Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a former porn star with a reality television show. It foretells the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ (Pilot Abilene keeps reading it on the soundtrack). Roland manages to escape, climb onto the roof, and fall into a dumpster. 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). One critic wondered if Kelly had ever met another human being. She is pursued by Zora and Bart, who have discovered that Krysta has taken Dion and Dream's murder tape by mistake. On the mega-zeppelin, Krysta Now performs a dance number. Your body would learn to how to absorb all nutrients into the body, making defecation unnecessary.RONALD: "Hmmm. Original music was provided by Moby . Again, we're not entirely sure. It's OK to be confused by Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales.". [28][29] After significant edits, the final version premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2007. Richard Kelly's science-fiction comedy was widely derided on release in 2006, but it has since found a cult audience. 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). He had Roland Taverner kidnap Boxer and drive him through the rift. [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. Edit, The term fluid karma is used to refer to two things in the movie. Would a tide-powered electrical generator actually contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics? [30] The film was originally scheduled to be released in the United States on November 9, 2007, in partnership with Destination Films and Samuel Goldwyn Films,[31] but in eventually opened in limited release in California on November 14, 2007. "RONALD: "Its a physiological requirement of the body. Additionally, tracks from Radiohead, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Kris Kristofferson, and several tracks from Moby's Hotel:Ambient are likewise absent from the album. Both vehicles come to a rest in the middle of a shootout and Walter Mung is killed. Nana Mae Frost (Miranda Richardson), the wife of Republican candidate Bobby Frost, inaugurates the Los Angeles USIDent headquarters. Scientists are saying the futures going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted, Krysta suggests, as if this helped to explain anything. It's not exactly easy to follow, and its meaning is still heavily debated, but if you read it as a prophecy, this is one way of interpreting it: In the future, the world will be a miserable place filled with war, famine and disease. Published May 20, 2016. These are (Book 1) Two Roads Diverge, (Book 2) Fingerprints and (Book 3) The Mechanicals. That's why. With the United States under the threat of nuclear attack, the lives of several people converge in a dystopian Los Angeles. Two months before Southland Tales was released, he announced the launch of Darko Entertainment.[15]. Edit, Revelation 22:5: "It will never be night again and they will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. If you replace the Antichrist with the bourgeoisie, and the kingdom of God with a communist utopia, you've got the same basic narrative. 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. When Boxer and Fortunio met up with Krysta, she recognized Boxer and managed to convince him that she was an actress researching a role in his new movie, "The Power." Roland and Ronald are the Messiah and in the end they find each other and save humanity through the power of forgiveness. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. 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. "Martin Kefauver: He is the angel of death that rides on the horse (the ice cream truck) Edit, No. "RONALD: "Sounds neat. 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. Boxer diverts the attention away from the real messiah, who almost gets killed. The New Statesmans weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. Eventually, the Antichrist will show up and take over the world. He stopped editing the film and was also unable to complete all of the visual effects in time for the screening. He can be reached at @thomasmaxrogers. "3 Steps" by Moby9. 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.The film that is most obviously referenced is "Kiss Me Deadly," a 1955 film noir about a private detective who uncovers a plot to detonate a nuclear device. First, it refers to an "organic compound" that the Treer company discovered while drilling off the coast of Israel, which exists under the Earth's mantle, and circles the world like a "serpent." Why is 'Kiss Me Deadly' featured numerous times in the film? One copy of Boxer traveled 69 minutes back in time, while the other copy was killed by an explosive charge in the car. 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. On his way to meet Krysta, Fortunio discovered Boxer Santaros in the desert, stricken with amnesia. The film was released in the UK on December 7, 2007, exclusively to UK cinema chain Cineworld in a limited number of locations. What does the name "Vaughn Smallhouse" refer to? 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. Taverner reveals that he hasn't produced a bowel movement in six days. A cool guy. The film was released on Region 4 DVD in Australia on April 30, 2008. 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. Vaughn sends a car to pick up Boxer and bring him back to the Frost mansion. 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. Where does the information in this FAQ come from? Her new screenplay, co-written with an amnesiac movie star with the extremely macho name Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), outlines the apocalypse as she is certain it will happen. 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. One Taverner repeats, "friendly fire," while the other says, "I forgive you." What do all the characters in the film keep on quoting from? There are hundreds of these mechanical balls buried everywhere in the Southland. 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. The film features an ensemble cast including Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, and Justin Timberlake. Like its contemporary David Lynchs Inland Empire (which used the then modern aesthetic of digital video to emphasise the way technology allowed the user to be present in two places, and therefore exist in two different states) it exaggerates the ugliness of 2006 the tribal tattoos and the awful CGI, the typefaces that look like something from a bitchin Geocities website until what was merely bad taste looks absurd, a dark dream that takes place in a strip mall food court. "Tiny Elephants" by Moby12. 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. Its plot hinges on a barely explained back story involving rifts in the fourth dimension. She says "The religion that is the winner of the contest will bleed" Inside the levitating ice cream truck, the two Taverners continue to hold hands. In the universe of the film, Dr. Inga Von Westphalen is also the granddaughter of Jenny Von Westphalen, Karl Marx's wife. When Boxer and Taverner went through the space-time rift, they traveled 69 minutes back in time -- creating duplicate versions of themselves. Zora abruptly pushes Ronald from the car, and runs over Bing. 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. 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