SOUTHLAND TALES de Richard Kelly (2006)

Description :

In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half.


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Film très complexe avec une diégèse très (trop?) poussé, Southland Tales a récolté des critiques mitigés. Pour certains c'est un film rempli de chose qui n'on pas de sens ou de logique, pour moi c'est un très bon film complexe abordant une panoplie de thèmes intéressant. En plus, le film comporte plusieurs bonne pointure. À regarder plus d'une fois pour en saisir toute les subtilité. La soundtrack, mélancolique, colle parfaitement à l'esprit du film.