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Glory! Some kind soul just posted a brief script review for Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales over in our forum and I’m re-posting out here since quite a lot of you are foolish enough to not be visitng there on a regular basis.

You could consider some of this spoiler material, though I consider a lot of it to be setting more than anything else. And I imagine a lot of the background stuff the reviewer wishes was dug into more will be covered in the preceding graphic novels ...

Thanks to Max From Fearless for the review ...

Read Richard Kelly’s "Southland Tales" a couple of weeks back and wanted to share with the Twitch massive, and see if anyone else had read it... I’m really looking forward to this!

Personally I thought "Donnie Darko" had a great idea/premise, but the execution really didn’t work for me, "Southland" is something else entirely...

It’s a chance for Kelly to join the heavy hitters, even though I’m real worried about the casting...

spoilers ahead...

Set in an alternate reality: (Los Angeles July 2008) not unlike the reality in Philip K Dick’s ’The Man in the High Castle," internet is outlawed and regulated, and the army patrol the streets and watch over the sea, ohh and there’s also a doomsday machine involved - It’s the story of Boxer a successful action movie star with amnesia, Krysta Now a porno star and an actors collective, The Lighthouse Gang... all these character’s lives are thrown together by a kidnapping that goes horribly wrong... It also involves a conspiracy about making the entire world go mad... And ends with a hilarious ’race’ riot... (I know, you’re thinking how could such a thing ever be funny, wait till you see the film, or read the script and you’ll know what I’m talking about) Where "Darko" was straightfaced, "Southland" is ballsy, innovative and hilarious, yup, it works! The dialogue is amazing, the characters - especially the lesbian bodybuilder, Zora and Boxer - really run rampant through the story!

It feels much more like a character driven action/thriller than a comic book movie. Would have liked to know more about how the world became as it’s depicted in the film, character’s keep on hinting about ’What happened in Chicago.."

Reads like "True Romance," or even "Pulp Fiction" meets "Strange Days," "Short Cuts"/"Magnolia" and Philip K Dick... My only fear is the cast that Kelly’s assembled, and Kelly not being able to handle something so epic, surreal and intricate, and by the way the dancing/musical scenes are integrated wonderfully...

"Nobody rocks the cock like Krysta Now!"