04-20-2008, 12:07 PM
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Brian Gaul
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Local Date: 10-13-2008
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Re: Thoughts on Southland Tales
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Originally Posted by Jari
Truly unique and boldly different that anything I've seen in years (excluding Lynch's Inland Empire of course).
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Interesting that you mentioned Inland Empire as the "plot" of Inland Empire is actually pretty similar to the "plot" of Southland Tales. They both take place in L.A., both feature a character whose life gets confused with a movie script, both have characters who, for no good reason, break into musical numbers and lead to conclusions where Also, both movies are filled with bizarre characters who appear out of nowhere for no good reason and exist only to be as bizarre as humanly (or rabbitly, in the case of Inland Empire) possible. They both will leave you scratching your head wondering WTF? both during and for hours after watching them.
With the two movies being so similar, I'm left to wonder why I loved Inland Empire and hated Southland Tales. Could it be that the charge made against Inland Empire fans that "If anyone other than David Lynch made it, you people would say it's pretentious crap!" is true?
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