"The party is over. Have a nice apocolypse."

Southland Tales makes a nice companion piece to Brazil, even thought we both agreed we had no idea wtf really happened. It takes place in a similar type of world where information is being tightly monitored and controlled for society's "protection" and any subversive types are basically shot on sight. The twisty turns and freaky metaphysical, socio-psychological mind fuck aspects were very reminiscent of writer/director Richard Kelly's seminal work, Donnie Darko, but this one is way more convoluted. As with Children of Men, we are once again dealing with a countdown to the end of days, but this one had a lot of pointed commentary on the twisted way our society has started to backslide into extreme Puritanism. As the lovely porn star Krysta Now (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) explains, "All the Pilgrims did was ruin the American Indian orgy of freedom." The lockdown on the internet portrayed in this movie is not far off from the severity of the censorship and FCC crackdowns we've experienced in the past few years.

Other than that high level type of message, we really have no effing clue what happened in this movie. So, so, so, soooo many actors we like (omg, JT! omg, Mandy Moore! omg, is that KEVIN SMITH in old man makeup??) were scattered throughout, sometimes just drifting through scenes like leaves in the wind. Such a bizarre experience.