SOUTHLAND TALES at AFI FEST 2007 presented by Audi

DIR: Richard Kelly
SCR: Richard Kelly
EXEC PROD: Oliver Hengst Katarina Hyde, Bill Johnson, Ernst August Schnieder, Jim Seibel, Judd Payne
PROD: Bo Hyde, Sean McKittrick, Kendall Morgan, Matthew Rhodes
DP: Steven B. Poster
ED: Sam Bauer
PROD DES: Alec Hammond
MUS: Moby
CAST: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Cheri Oteri, Will Sasso, Miranda Richardson, Kevin Smith, Wallace Shawn, Jason Lee, Janeanne Garofalo, Jon Lovitz, Amy Poehler, Tim Blake Nelson

In 1920, Robert Frost described two roads in a yellow wood. More than 85 years later, filmmaker Richard Kelly, director of the cult favorite DONNIE DARKO, takes the one less traveled. In one of the year's most anticipated films, Kelly takes us on a journey into a parallel reality. The year is 2008, the place is Los Angeles, and Boxer Santos (Dwayne Johnson), an action star, has married into the political world. (Sound familiar?) His budding relationship with porn star and business mogul Krysta Now leads to a screenplay that may or may not be an accurate prediction of the end of the world. And it only gets stranger from there.

Kelly's vast, visionary story encompasses a new US security program that identifies all Internet activity by fingerprint, a new wireless energy system called Liquid Karma and radical neo-Marxists who seek to disrupt the power structures that loom above them. In addition to his ambitious story, Kelly has assembled --one of the most original and diverse casts in recent memory, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, Miranda Richardson, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Smith, Wallace Shawn and, as a cherry on top, Justin Timberlake (who lip-synchs from behind a scarred face).

This most unexpected political satire is an incredibly funny and trenchant film, a wry commentary on the nature of identity and power in a celebrity culture. Ideas and images from this alternate, Orwellian near future come at us with a dizzying pace, offering a shiny corporate-sponsored vision of a future on the edge of apocalypse. So grab a can of Krysta Now, a couple of alternate fingerprints, and your ticket to the Mega-Zeppelin. The future is here and it's far more futuristic than you might expect.

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[tlyoung88]

Can someone explain the "I'm a pimp line." It was kinda random and seemed really out of character.

[soska247]

upu2 lol

[Rauly47]

MANDY MOORE!!!!!!!!!!

[takethat925]

THANK YOU!

HOLY SH*T!

SOMEBODY ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT KELLY WAS TRYING TO PULL OFF!!

There is hope for us after all.

[PhillipJay]

I was blown away by this film. The genius way of adding all the types of media to this film, the compter animation, the regular animation, the sudden screen shots of the different passages from the book of Revelations. The symbolic adaptation of the seven deadly sins within the movie sometimes even in the background of the film. The humor, the meriad of cameos from well known actors made this a terrific movie. A true cult classic.

[JacobTrue]

Wow this looks a lot better than everyone made out.

[shineyc]

respect is due keep it comming

[filusilla]

the song in the beginning is "blue paper" by Moby. he made the complite score of this film, but this song is from "Hotel" his last studio album.

[punksovereign]

Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf Version)

[cmurez]

what's the song in the beginning please?