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{{short description|2006 film by Richard Kelly}}
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| writer = Richard Kelly
| producer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Sean McKittrick]]
* Bo Hyde
* Kendall Morgan
* Matthew Rhodes
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| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Dwayne Johnson]]
* [[Seann William Scott]]
* [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]]
* [[Nora Dunn]]
* [[Christopher Lambert]]
* [[John Larroquette]]
* [[Bai Ling]]
* [[Jon Lovitz]]
* [[Mandy Moore]]
* [[Holmes Osborne]]
* [[Cheri Oteri]]
* [[Amy Poehler]]
* [[Lou Taylor Pucci]]
* [[Miranda Richardson]]
* [[Wallace Shawn]]
* [[Kevin Smith]]
* [[Justin Timberlake]]
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| cinematography = [[Steven Poster]]
| editing = Sam Bauer
| music = [[Moby]]
| studio = {{Plainlist|
* [[Universal Pictures]]<ref name="SDreview">{{cite web |last=D'Arcy |first=David |title=Southland Tales {{!}} Reviews |url=https://www.screendaily.com/southland-tales/4035563.article |website=[[Screen Daily]] |access-date=16 March 2025 |date=31 October 2007}}</ref>
* Cherry Road Films<ref name="SDreview"/>
* [[Darko Entertainment]]<ref name="SDreview"/>
* MHF Zweite Academy Film<ref name="SDreview"/>
* Inferno Distribution<ref name="SDreview"/>
* Eden Roc Productions<ref name="SDreview"/>
* Persistent Entertainment<ref name="SDreview"/>
* [[Wild Bunch (company)|Wild Bunch]]<ref name="SDreview"/>
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| distributor = {{Plainlist|
* [[Samuel Goldwyn Films]]
* [[Destination Films]] (United States)
* Universal Pictures
* Wild Bunch
* Inferno Distribution (International)<ref name=sd1>{{cite web|title=Samuel Goldwyn to handle US distribution of Southland Tales|website=[[Screen Daily]]|first=Jeremy|last=Kay|date=25 July 2007|access-date=5 October 2021|url=https://www.screendaily.com/samuel-goldwyn-to-handle-us-distribution-of-southland-tales/4033712.article|archive-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416172010/https://www.screendaily.com/samuel-goldwyn-to-handle-us-distribution-of-southland-tales/4033712.article|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=sd2>{{cite web|title=Universal, Wild Bunch board Southland Tales|website=Screen Daily|first=Jeremy|last=Kay|date=21 April 2005|access-date=5 October 2021|url=https://www.screendaily.com/universal-wild-bunch-board-southland-tales/4022728.article|archive-date=July 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701045748/https://www.screendaily.com/universal-wild-bunch-board-southland-tales/4022728.article|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| released = {{Film date|2006|05|21|[[2006 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]|2007|11|14|United States}}
| runtime = 144 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 144:22--><ref>{{cite web | url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/southland-tales-film | title=''Southland Tales'' (15) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=November 5, 2007 | access-date=November 24, 2016 | archive-date=November 26, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126003357/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/southland-tales-film | url-status=dead }}</ref>
| country = {{Plainlist|
* United States
* Germany
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| language = English
| budget = $17 million<ref name="TN">{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Southland-Tales#tab=summary |title=''Southland Tales'' (2007) |website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |publisher=Nash Information Services, LLC |access-date=December 9, 2012 |archive-date=November 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119013355/http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Southland-Tales#tab=summary |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="MB"/>
| gross = $374,743<ref name="BOM" />
}}
'''''Southland Tales''''' is a 2006 [[Dystopian fiction|dystopian]] [[Black comedy|black]]
[[comedy thriller]] film written and directed by [[Richard Kelly (filmmaker)|Richard Kelly]]. It features an [[ensemble cast]] that includes [[Dwayne Johnson]], [[Seann William Scott]], [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], [[Mandy Moore]], and [[Justin Timberlake]]. An [[international co-production]] of the United States and Germany,<ref name="bfi">{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/818181|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113225810/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/818181|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 13, 2009|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=November 11, 2012|title=Southland Tales}}</ref> the film is set in the [[List of stories set in a future now in the past|then-near future]] of 2008, and is a portrait of [[Los Angeles]], as well as a satiric commentary on the [[military–industrial complex]] and the [[infotainment]] industry. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to the [[Greater Los Angeles area]]. Original music was provided by [[Moby]].
''Southland Tales'' premiered at the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]],<ref name="festival-cannes.com" /> and was released theatrically in the United States on November 14, 2007. The film polarised critics,<ref name="Ebert"/> who responded unfavourably to its running time and sprawling nature in spite of its "intriguing vision", and only made $374,743 during its international theatrical run.<ref name="BOM" /> It has developed a [[cult following]] in subsequent years. Kelly has expressed interest in expanding the film into a franchise.<ref name="EW2021" />
==Plot==
{{Long plot|date=August 2025}}
As narrated by [[Iraq War]] veteran Private Pilot Abilene, on [[Independence Day (United States)|July 4]], 2005, [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]] and [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]], [[Texas]] were destroyed and hundreds of thousands were killed by twin nuclear attacks, sending the United States into a state of chaos, hysteria and a [[Third World War]], with the government re-introducing [[Conscription in the United States|the draft]]. The [[PATRIOT Act]] has extended authority, due to the overwhelming victory of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], to a new agency known as US-IDENT, which keeps constant [[Mass surveillance in the United States|surveillance]] on citizens. In response to the recent fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy, which is propelled by the [[perpetual motion]] of ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma".
In 2008 [[Los Angeles]], Senator and GOP Vice-Presidential candidate Bobby Frost presides over the opening of US-IDENT with his wife, Nana Mae Frost, installed as its director. Right-wing film star Boxer Santaros awakens on the beach with amnesia after a three-day disappearance. After awakening, he does not remember his marriage to Senator Frost's daughter Madeline and has instead begun an affair with former porn star turned-talk show host Krysta Now.
Meanwhile, a group of Neo-Marxist revolutionaries composed of Cyndi Pinziki, Zora Carmichaels and Ronald Taverner hatch a plan to turn the national spotlight against US-IDENT. They have kidnapped Ronald's twin brother, police officer Roland, and plan to outfit Ronald in his uniform and car in order to stage a racially motivated double-murder.
Boxer and Krysta have written a screenplay about riots caused by the slowing of the Earth's rotation, in which Boxer will play a police officer. He goes on a ride with Ronald to prepare for his role, bringing a video camera with him. Ronald responds to a staged domestic disturbance call where Neo-Marxists Dream and Dion, disguised as newlyweds, fake an argument. Unexpectedly, another cop, Bart Bookman arrives on the scene, murders Dream and Dion, and takes the camera. Ronald and Boxer run out of the house in a panic. In the meantime, US-IDENT raids the Neo-Marxist headquarters, with the kidnapped Roland escaping by jumping into a dumpster.
Boxer is then contacted by one of Frost's aids, Vaughn Smallhouse, who sends a car to pick him up. Ronald meets up with Zora and tries to convince her that something has gone wrong; however, Zora has actually partnered with Bookman to murder the couple and injects Ronald with a syringe of liquid Karma, leaving him unconscious in the street. Nearby, Roland awakens in the dumpster and climbs out, only to be captured by Walter Mung, an ice cream truck-based arms dealer.
When Boxer arrives at the Frost mansion, Treer scientist Baron Von Westphalen and his entourage are also present. The Frosts receive a call from Pinziki, who demands $10 million in exchange for Boxer and Krysta's sex tape. During the conversation, it becomes clear that while Frost is seeking the presidency, Von Westphalen seeks world domination using the leverage of his energy machine. Boxer receives a phone call from Starla Von Luft, a US-IDENT monitoring agent who is posing as a character from Boxer and Krysta's screenplay, and asks him to meet her at the [[Santa Monica State Beach|Santa Monica beach]].
The next day, Krysta stops by Zora's apartment to buy drugs for the party, and takes the videotape of the double murder, mistaking it for her sex tape. At the beach, she puts it in a Neo-Marxist dropbox, so that the contents will later be made public, and Zora and Bookman are shot dead by police while attempting to steal back the tape. Nearby, Ronald awakens and sets out to find his brother. He encounters a young man named Martin Kefauver in an SUV and stops him from killing himself to avoid the draft, and the two go out in search for Roland. Smallhouse meets Pinziki at a nearby restaurant to exchange money for the sex tape, and warns him about the US-IDENT murder tape. Boxer arrives at the beach and meets Starla, who threatens to kill herself if he doesn't allow her to perform oral sex on him. Private Abilene shoots her dead from his perch at the top of the pier and Boxer runs off, only to be confronted by supposed friend Fortunio, who knocks him unconscious and returns him to the Frosts.
The Frosts and the city prepare for a party to celebrate the launch of Von Westphalen's Mega-[[Zeppelin]], which runs entirely on Liquid Karma. On the Zeppelin, an upper-class party gets underway with the Frosts, Westphalen's entourage, and Krysta's entourage onboard. Boxer leaves the main hall of the ship in search of answers, and finds a room with three of Westphalen's scientists, who explain that he was selected to travel through a time rift in the desert at the time of his disappearance, and is, in fact, his future self. Furthermore, the generator has altered the ocean currents, causing [[Earth]] to spiral out of control, ripping holes in the fabric of [[space]] and [[time]]. The scientists show him the corpse of his past self, who they say killed himself. Boxer asserts that his suicide is impossible because he is a "pimp", and "pimps don't commit suicide." One of the scientists also states that dire consequences would unfold if two identical human souls were to make physical contact. Boxer presses Serpentine for details, revealing that Boxer was actually murdered in a car bomb and that Roland was the one who kidnapped Boxer and drove him through the rift. She also confirms that Roland and Ronald being the same person, with his past and present self are coexisting.
Outside where the city is, as a firefight ensues between rioters and the police, both Taverners crash into each other. Roland is shot in the eye but survives. Inside the ice cream truck, the Taverners hold hands, causing the truck to rise into the air along with Kefauver, who stands on top with a shoulder-mounted heat-seeking ground-to-air missile. US-IDENT headquarters is raided by Fortunio and rioters who kill Nana Mae Frost. Inside the Zeppelin, Boxer returns to the main hall and takes the stage for a dance number involving Krysta and his wife, Madeline. He interrupts the number to order an evacuation, or else he will kill himself. Kefauver fires a rocket at the Mega-Zeppelin, destroying it, before he jumps off the truck. As the Taverners continue to hold hands, a time rift begins to grow in the sky. Roland threatens Ronald with suicide if he does not let go and tells him to "remember Fallujah"{{refn|group=lower-alpha|In the third prequel graphic novel ''Part Three: The Mechanicals''<ref>{{cite book |last=Kelly|first=Richard|date=January 31, 2007|title=Part Three: The Mechanicals|url=https://archive.org/details/southland-tales-the-prequel-saga-complete-i-iii/Southland%20Tales%20Book%20III%20-%20The%20Mechanicals|___location=Anaheim, California|publisher=Graphitti Designs|page=104-119|isbn=0-936211-77-6|access-date=August 19, 2025}}</ref>, it is revealed that in this incident, during Roland's time as a soldier, that he threw a grenade under the influence of Fluid Karma, causing Abilene to be injured.}}. Ronald replies that it was not their fault, with Roland conceding that it was friendly fire. Abilene narrates that a new age is beginning, with Roland as its Messiah, concluding that he is a "pimp" and that "pimps don't commit suicide."
==Cast==
* [[Dwayne Johnson]] as Boxer Santaros, an [[amnesia]]c [[Action film|action star]] whose life crosses paths with Krysta Now.<ref name="rock"/> Santaros is married to Madeline Frost Santaros.<ref name="apoc"/>
* [[Seann William Scott]] as Officer Roland Taverner / Private Ronald Taverner, [[identical twin]] brothers, one who is a kidnapped U.P.U.2 officer in [[Hermosa Beach, California]],<ref name="rock" /> the other who is working for the neo-Marxist group who have told him he kidnapped and drugged his brother.<ref name="apoc"/>
* [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]] as Krysta Now / Krysta Lynn Kapowski, an [[Pornographic film actor|adult film star]] who is working on creating a [[reality television|reality show]].<ref name="rock" /> Gellar met with Kelly and was drawn to the original ideas in his script for ''Southland Tales''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-10/05/14.00.film|title=Gellar Heads To ''Southland''|date=2004-10-05|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804045535/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-10%2F05%2F14.00.film|archive-date=August 4, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Nora Dunn]] as Cyndi Pinziki, a porn director and principal member of USIDeath, an organization with plans to destroy US-IDENT.
* [[Christopher Lambert]] as Walter Mung, an arms dealer who sells weapons inside an ice cream truck.
* [[John Larroquette]] as Vaughn Smallhouse, an advisor to Senator Bobby Frost.<ref name="apoc"/>
* [[Bai Ling]] as Serpentine, the Baron's sultry girlfriend who is seen quite often throughout the film, serving as an ambiguous character that knows more than she lets on.
* [[Jon Lovitz]] as Bart Bookman, a violent police officer in love with Zora Carmichaels.
* [[Mandy Moore]] as Madeline Frost Santaros, Boxer Santaros' wife and daughter of Senator Bobby Frost.
* [[Holmes Osborne]] as Senator Bobby Frost, the father of Madeline Frost Santaros and husband of Nana Mae Frost.
* [[Cheri Oteri]] as Zora Carmichaels, a Neo-Marxist and Bart Bookman's love interest.
* [[Amy Poehler]] as Veronica “Dream” Mung, a Neo-Marxist activist.
* [[Lou Taylor Pucci]] as Martin Kefauver, a young man who is drafted into military service for the [[Iraq War]].
* [[Miranda Richardson]] as Nana Mae Frost, the ambitious [[antagonist]] of the film, Boxer's mother-in-law and the head of US-IDENT.<ref name="apoc"/>
* [[Wallace Shawn]] as Baron von Westphalen, a villain who utilizes ocean waves to create a source of power. He is the great-grandson of [[Jenny von Westphalen]].<ref name="apoc" />
* [[Kevin Smith]] as Simon Theory, a legless [[Iraq War]] veteran who works for Baron von Westphalen.<ref>{{cite web|author=Hilary Goldstein|url=http://comics.ign.com/articles/636/636781p1.html|title=Before Southland Tales|website=[[IGN]]|date=2005-07-26|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-date=November 17, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117023825/http://comics.ign.com/articles/636/636781p1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Justin Timberlake]] as Private Pilot Abilene, an [[Iraq War]] veteran.<ref name="goodbye"/> He narrates the film and also mimes a musical number.<ref name="apoc">{{cite news|first=Angela|last=Doland|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052100728.html|title='Southland' Imagines L.A. Apocalypse|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=2006-05-21|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-date=November 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102175924/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052100728.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[Wood Harris]] appears as Neo-Marxist activist Dion Element. [[Zelda Rubinstein]] and [[Beth Grant]] portray Dr. Katarina Kuntzler and Dr. Inga Von Westphalen, respectively, both being members of the baron's entourage. [[Will Sasso]] plays Fortunio Balducci, while [[Janeane Garofalo]] appears as General Teena MacArthur, whose scenes only appear in the Cannes Cut.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Riesman |first=Abraham |date=2013-07-03 |title=Unraveling the Inside Story of "Southland Tales" |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/southland-tales-richard-kelly/ |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Holt |first=Christopher |date=2020-10-15 |title=Our Reality Caught Up With Southland Tales |url=https://filmobsessive.com/film/film-analysis/film-genres/sci-fi/our-reality-caught-up-with-southland-tales/ |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=Film Obsessive |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Eli Roth]] cameos as a man who is shot by US-IDENT while on the toilet.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaay |first=Chris Vander |date=2017-04-14 |title=10 Horror Directors Who Appeared in Movies They Didn’t Direct |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3431848/10-horror-directors-love-appearing-peoples-movies/ |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=Bloody Disgusting! |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Siegel |first=Tatiana |date=2016-05-09 |title=Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After ‘Southland Tales’ Was Booed |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/anatomy-a-cannes-disaster-what-890749/ |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Production==
Kelly wrote ''Southland Tales'' shortly before the [[September 11 attacks]]. The original script involved [[blackmail]], a porn star, and two cops. After the attacks, Kelly revised the script. He said, "[The original script] was more about making fun of Hollywood. But now it's about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that's about a really important problem we're facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them."<ref name="goodbye">{{cite news|last=Peranson|first=Mark|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0622,peranson,73376,20.html|title=Goodbye ''Southland'', Goodbye|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=2006-05-30|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-date=September 21, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070921152606/http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0622,peranson,73376,20.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He described the film as a "tapestry of ideas all related to some of the biggest issues that I think we're facing right now . . . [[alternative fuel]] or the increasing obsession with celebrity and how celebrity now intertwines with politics".<ref name="doland">{{cite news|author=Angela Doland|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052100728.html|title=''Southland'' Imagines L.A. Apocalypse|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|date=2006-05-21|access-date=2007-06-07|archive-date=November 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102175924/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052100728.html|url-status=live}}</ref> With the film's premise of a nuclear attack on Texas, Kelly wanted to take a look at how the United States would respond and survive while constructing a "great [[black comedy]]."<ref name="doland" />
Kelly's breakthrough film, ''[[Donnie Darko]]'', was released in the United States on October 26, 2001, the same day the [[PATRIOT Act]] was signed. Two months before ''Southland Tales'' was released, he announced the launch of [[Darko Entertainment]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/kelly-launches-darko-entertainment-1117972074/ |title="Kelly launches Darko Entertainment", by Dade Hayes, ''Variety'' |date=September 17, 2007 |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-date=December 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211032243/https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/kelly-launches-darko-entertainment-1117972074/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Kelly said: "[''Southland Tales''] will only be a [[Musical film|musical]] in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. There will be some dancing and singing, but it will be incorporated into the story in very logical scenarios as well as fantasy dream environments."<ref name="variety" /> Kelly said the film's biggest influences are ''[[Kiss Me Deadly]]'', ''[[Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]]'', ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'', and ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''. He called it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of [[Andy Warhol]] and [[Philip K. Dick]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=154383&page=1|title=''Southland Tales'' preview|access-date=2005-09-16|last=Etherington|first=Daniel|year=2006|publisher=[[Channel 4]]|archive-date=June 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606235852/http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=154383&page=1|url-status=live}}</ref> The film often references religious and literary works; a policeman says, "Flow my tears," in reference to a [[Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said|Philip K. Dick novel of that name]]. ("Taverner" is the name of the main character in the same book and suffers identity problems of his own.) Pilot Abilene ([[Justin Timberlake]]) quotes Biblical scripture from the [[Book of Revelation]] in narrating the film and allusion is made both to [[Robert Frost]]'s ''[[The Road Not Taken]]'', ''[[Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening]]'' and an altered version of [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[The Hollow Men]]''.<ref name=":0" />
===Casting===
In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of ''Southland Tales''. Filmmakers entered negotiations with actors [[Seann William Scott]], [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], [[Jason Lee (actor)|Jason Lee]], [[Janeane Garofalo]], [[Tim Blake Nelson]], [[Amy Poehler]], [[Kevin Smith]], and [[Ali Larter]]. Musician [[Moby]] was approached on composing and performing the film's score.<ref name="variety">{{cite magazine|author=Cathy Dunkley|url=https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/cherry-road-hot-for-kelly-s-tales-1117902247/|title=Cherry Road hot for Kelly's 'Tales'|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=2004-03-24|access-date=2007-08-02}}</ref> Kelly met with [[Rick Moranis]] about playing Vaughn Smallhouse.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2562021/the-character-rick-moranis-almost-played-in-richard-kellys-infamous-southland-tales | title=The Character Rick Moranis Almost Played in Richard Kelly's Infamous Southland Tales | date=January 28, 2021 }}</ref> Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."<ref name="doland" />
===Filming===
Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, it had not begun. [[Dwayne Johnson]] joined the cast in April 2005, and [[principal photography]] was slated to begin August 1, 2005 in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]].<ref name="rock">{{cite news|author=Cherry Road Films|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=9258|title=The Rock Heads to ''Tales''|publisher=ComingSoon.net|date=2005-04-21|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-date=October 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018150859/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=9258|url-status=dead}}</ref> Filming began on August 15, 2005, with a budget of around [[United States dollar|US$]]15–17 million.
===Post-production===
Kelly sent the organizers of the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]] a rough cut of ''Southland Tales'' on [[DVD]] assuming that it would not be accepted.<ref name="gandert">{{cite magazine|author=Sean Gandert|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2007/11/catching-up-with-richard-kelly.html|title=Catching Up With ... Richard Kelly|magazine=Paste magazine|date=2007-11-14|access-date=2007-06-07}}</ref> Much to his surprise, they loved it and wanted the film entered in competition for the [[Palme d'Or]]. He stopped editing the film and was also unable to complete all of the visual effects in time for the screening.<ref name="gandert" /> Kelly's film premiered at the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]] in May 2006 with a length of 160 minutes.<ref name="USA">{{cite news |last=Jacobson |first=Harlan |date=2006-05-22 |title=''Volver'', ''Southland Tales'' premiere at Cannes |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-05-21-cannes_x.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523123543/http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-05-21-cannes_x.htm |archive-date=May 23, 2011 |access-date=2008-06-06 |work=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> Kelly describes the negative reaction at Cannes as a "very painful experience on a lot of levels" but ultimately felt that the film "was better off because of it".<ref name="gandert" /> After the film's festival release, ''Southland Tales'' was purchased by [[Sony Pictures]] (via their label [[Destination Films]]) and [[Samuel Goldwyn Films]], originally [[Sony Pictures Classics]], [[Screen Gems]] and [[TriStar Pictures]] were up for US distribution rights.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mark Bell|url=https://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=1104|title=How The World Ends: Conversation With Richard Kelly|publisher=Film Threat|date=2006-09-12|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-date=April 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413025548/http://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=1104|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/anatomy-a-cannes-disaster-what-890749 | title=Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After 'Southland Tales' Was Booed | date=May 9, 2016 | access-date=January 15, 2017 | work=The Hollywood Reporter | archive-date=December 3, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203093643/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/anatomy-a-cannes-disaster-what-890749 | url-status=live }}</ref>
[[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] had originally optioned the U.S. rights, but after the Cannes screening, it was sold to Sony, although Universal still retained studio credit only and some international distribution rights. Kelly sought more financing to finish visual effects for the film, and he negotiated a deal with Sony to cut down on the film's length in exchange for funds to complete the visual effects.<ref>{{cite news|author=Jeremy Smith|url=http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=11216|title=Exclusive Interview: Richard Kelly (Southland Tales)|publisher=CHUD.com|date=2007-07-28|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-date=September 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181349/http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=11216|url-status=live}}</ref>
Kelly edited the film down to the basic storylines of the characters portrayed by Scott, Gellar, and Johnson. The director also sought to keep the musical number performed by Timberlake, based on "[[All These Things That I've Done]]" by [[The Killers]] which he felt was the heart and soul of the film.<ref name="goodbye" /> Editorial changes were made to restructure the order of the film's scenes, including re-recording all of Timberlake's voice-over. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut.<ref>{{cite news|author=Patrick Lee|author2=Cindy White |url=http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=42832|title=Kelly Talks ''Southland'' Changes|publisher=[[Sci Fi Wire]]|date=2007-07-28|access-date=2007-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011160600/http://scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=42832<!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date=2007-10-11}}</ref>
==Soundtrack==
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''Southland Tales: Music from the Motion Picture'' is the original soundtrack of Richard Kelly's 2007 film ''Southland Tales''.<ref name="AllMusic"/><ref>{{discogs release|1294116|Southland Tales – Music From The Motion Picture}}.</ref>
# "[[Wave of Mutilation]]" (UK surf version) by [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]]
# "Oh My Angel" by Bertha Tillman
# "Howl" (extended version) by [[Black Rebel Motorcycle Club]]
# "Look Back In" by [[Moby]]
# "[[Me & Bobby McGee]]" by [[Waylon Jennings]]
# "[[Chord Sounds]]" by Moby
# "Lucky Me" by [[Roger Webb]]
# "3 Steps" by Moby
# "[[Broken Hearted Savior]]" by [[Big Head Todd and the Monsters]]
# "Teen Horniness Is Not a Crime" by [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], Abbey McBride and ClarKent
# "Tiny Elephants" by Moby
# "[[Forget Myself]]" by [[Elbow (band)|Elbow]]
# "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]" by [[Rebekah Del Rio]] & the Section Quartet
# "[[Three Days (Jane's Addiction song)|Three Days]]" (live version) by [[Jane's Addiction]]
# "[[Memory Gospel]]" by Moby
The soundtrack for ''Southland Tales'' was released in stores and online on November 6, 2007. Amongst the songs not available on the soundtrack but featured in the film are [[Muse (band)|Muse]]'s "[[Blackout (Muse song)|Blackout]]", [[The Killers]]' "[[All These Things That I've Done]]", and [[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s "[[Tender (song)|Tender]]". Additionally, tracks from [[Radiohead]], [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Beethoven]], [[Kris Kristofferson]], and several tracks from [[Moby]]'s ''[[Hotel (album)|Hotel:Ambient]]'' are likewise absent from the album. The reason for the exclusion of some of these tracks, like the song by The Killers was as a result of a dispute with the record label.<ref name="gandert" />
The track "Memory Gospel" was used from time to time by the [[CBC Radio One]] program ''[[Q (radio show)|Q]]'' in the background of an opening monologue given by host [[Jian Ghomeshi]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/q/faq/%23theme |title=Q with Jian Ghomeshi |publisher=[[CBC Radio]] |access-date=February 28, 2018 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721154412/http://www.cbc.ca/q/faq/%23theme |archive-date=July 21, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
==Release==
===Marketing===
''Southland Tales'' was initially planned to be a nine-part "interactive experience", with the first six parts published in six 100-page [[graphic novel]]s that would be released in a six-month period up to the film's release. The feature film comprises the final three parts of the experience. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself.<ref name="rock" /> The idea of six graphic novels was later cut down to three. The novels were written by Kelly and illustrated by Brett Weldele. Kelly wrote them while making the film and found it very difficult as it pushed him "to the edge of my own sanity", as he remarked in an interview.<ref name="gandert" />
* ''Part
* ''Part Two: Fingerprints'' (September 15, 2006, {{ISBN|0-936211-76-8}})
* ''Part Three: The Mechanicals'' (January 31, 2007, {{ISBN|0-936211-77-6}})
They have been collected together into one single volume:
* ''[[Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga]]'' (360 pages, Graphitti Designs, {{ISBN|0-936211-80-6}})
The titles of the parts in the film are:<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Rogers |first=Thomas |title=Everything you were afraid to ask about ''Southland Tales'' (Salon) |url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/portfolio/rogers/southlandtales.html |work=Portfolio |publisher=[[New York University]] |date=2007-12-19 |access-date=2018-04-28 }}</ref>
* ''Part Four: Temptation Waits''
* ''Part Five: Memory Gospel''
* ''Part Six: Wave of Mutilation''
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[[File:Richard Kelly 2.jpg|thumb|right|Director [[Richard Kelly (filmmaker)|Richard Kelly]] at a screening of ''Southland Tales'']]
Following its May 21, 2006 premiere at the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]], where it was poorly received,<ref name="Ebert">{{cite news |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/southland-tales-2007 |title=''Southland Tales'' |access-date=2022-11-04 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=2007-11-16 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |archive-date=June 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603183153/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/southland-tales-2007 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Dargis">{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/movies/14sout.html?ref=movies |title=Apocalypse Soon: A Mushroom Cloud Doesn't Stall 2008 Electioneering |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |author-link=Manohla Dargis |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2007-11-14 |access-date=2007-11-14 |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616193405/http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/movies/14sout.html?ref=movies |url-status=live }}</ref> the final version of the film premiered at [[Fantastic Fest]] on September 22, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fantasticfest.blogspot.com/2007/09/marko-southland-tales-bbq-and-uwe-boll.html|title=Official Fantastic Fest blog|access-date=2008-02-22|archive-date=July 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708034922/http://fantasticfest.blogspot.com/2007/09/marko-southland-tales-bbq-and-uwe-boll.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was originally scheduled to be released in the [[United States]] on November 9, 2007, in partnership with [[Destination Films]] and [[Samuel Goldwyn Films]],<ref name="opens-Nov.9_Variety">{{cite magazine|author=Addie Morfoot|url=https://variety.com/2007/film/news/southland-tales-opens-nov-9-2-1117969084/|title='Southland Tales' opens Nov. 9|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 24, 2007|access-date=2007-08-02}}</ref> but eventually opened in limited release in California on November 14, 2007. It opened in [[Canada]], as well as nationwide in the United States, in just 63 theaters,<ref name="BOM"/> on November 16, 2007. The film was released in the UK on December 7, 2007, exclusively to UK cinema chain [[Cineworld]] in a limited number of locations.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
===Home media===
The [[DVD region code#1|Region 1]] [[DVD]] was released on March 18, 2008, in North America and the Region 2 release was on March 31, 2008, in the United Kingdom. The film was released on Region 4 DVD in Australia on April 30, 2008. Special features include a 33-minute documentary ''USIDent TV: Surveiling the Southland'' and a 10-minute [[Animation|animated]] [[short film]] ''This Is the Way the World Ends'' (which was not included on the R2 and R4 editions). On March 25, 2009, the R2 DVD was released in France.
On September 8, 2008, it was announced that it would be one of the five films released on [[Blu-ray]] on November 18, 2008. The only new special feature announced was an [[audio commentary]] by Kelly. On October 26, 2020, Arrow Video announced a remastered version approved by Richard Kelly released on Blu-ray on January 26, 2021. This release includes both the original theatrical cut and the Cannes cut.
==Reception==
===Cannes Film Festival===
Along with two other American filmmakers ([[Sofia Coppola]]'s ''[[Marie Antoinette (2006 film)|Marie Antoinette]]'' and [[Richard Linklater]]'s ''[[Fast Food Nation (film)|Fast Food Nation]]''), ''Southland Tales'' was in competition for the coveted [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4359806/year/2006.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Southland Tales |access-date=2009-12-13 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822190216/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4359806/year/2006.html |archive-date=2011-08-22 }}</ref> and was screened on May 21 at the Grand Lumiere Theater.<ref name="USA"/>
Many critics responded unfavorably to the film's long running time and sprawling nature. [[Roger Ebert]] described the Cannes screening as "The most disastrous since, yes, ''[[The Brown Bunny]]''."<ref name="Ebert"/> [[Salon.com]] critic Andrew O'Hehir called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2006/05/22/btm_64/ |title=Beyond the Multiplex: Cannes |work=[[Salon.com]] |last=O'Hehir |first=Andrew |date=May 22, 2005 |access-date=December 8, 2014 |archive-date=December 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214011125/http://www.salon.com/2006/05/22/btm_64/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Jason Solomons]], in ''[[The Observer]]'' (UK), said that "''Southland Tales'' was so bad it made me wonder if [Kelly] had ever met a human being" and that ten minutes of the "sprawling, plotless, post-apocalyptic farrago" gave him the "sinking feeling that this may be one of the worst films ever presented in [Cannes] competition."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1784492,00.html |title=Get set for Palme Sunday |access-date=2006-07-10 |last=Solomons |first=Jason |author-link=Jason Solomons |date=2006-05-28 |work=[[The Observer]] |___location=London |archive-date=September 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070910114523/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1784492,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A handful of the American and European critics, however, were more positive.<ref>[http://richard-kelly.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2166 Links to many post-Cannes reviews, including multiple positive reviews by American, French, Spanish, Polish, and other reviewers.]{{dead link|date=September 2018|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> ''[[The Village Voice]]'' critic [[J. Hoberman]], for example, called ''Southland Tales'' "a visionary film about the end of times" comparable in recent American film only to [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Mulholland Drive (film)|Mulholland Drive]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0621,hoberman,73309,20.html |title=Code Unknown |access-date=2006-07-10 |last=Hoberman |first=J. |author-link=J. Hoberman |date=2006-05-23 |work=The Village Voice |archive-date=July 16, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716114001/http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0621%2Choberman%2C73309%2C20.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Critical response===
41% of 106 reviews compiled by [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]] are positive, and the average rating is 4.9 out of 10. The site's consensus states: "''Southland Tales'', while offering an intriguing vision of the future, remains frustratingly incoherent and unpolished."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/southland_tales/ |title=''Southland Tales'' (2007) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]] |access-date=August 22, 2020 |archive-date=August 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821104609/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/southland_tales/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 44 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/southland-tales |title=''Southland Tales'' Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=2017-03-30 |archive-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417093923/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/southland-tales |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[Glenn Kenny]], in his review for ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'' criticized the film's style, "Kelly's camera placement and framing are at best textbook and at worst calamitously mediocre."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.premiere.com/moviereviews/4242/southland-tales.html |title=''Southland Tales'' |last=Kenny |first=Glenn |author-link=Glenn Kenny |work=[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]] |date=2007-11-13 |access-date=2007-11-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116080229/http://www.premiere.com/moviereviews/4242/southland-tales.html |archive-date=November 16, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In her review for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Carina Chocano wrote, "You get the sense that Kelly is too angry to really find any of it funny. It's easy to empathize with his position, not so easy to remain engrossed in a film that's occasionally inspired but ultimately manic and scattered."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-southland14nov14-story.html |title=''Southland Tales'' |last=Chocano |first=Carina |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=2007-11-14 |access-date=2017-03-30 |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020012723/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-southland14nov14-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[David Edelstein]]'s review in [[New York (magazine)|''New York'' magazine]] criticized the film's writing, "Kelly aims high and must have shot off his own ear, which is the only way to account for the dialogue."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nymag.com/movies/reviews/40643/index1.html |title=Family Guy |last=Edelstein |first=David |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=2007-11-12 |access-date=2007-11-14 |archive-date=October 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026132705/https://nymag.com/movies/reviews/40643/index1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
On the program ''[[At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper|Ebert & Roeper]]'', [[Richard Roeper]] and guest critic [[Michael Phillips (critic)|Michael Phillips]] gave the film a negative review. While Roeper called the film "Two hours and twenty-four minutes of abstract crap," Phillips felt that "the film has a head on its shoulders despite the fact that it can't find any direction" but nevertheless gave the film a thumbs down.<ref>[http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/index2.html?sec=1&subsec=5527 ''Southland Tales'' review on the ''At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper'' website.]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In his written review, Ebert gave the film 1 star out of four, stating he admired Kelly as a "cinematic anarchist", but criticized him for having "no sympathy at all for an audience unable to understand his plot", lambasting the narrative and dialogue as incomprehensible.<ref name="Ebert" />
J. Hoberman defended the film, yet again, in his review for the theatrical cut. "In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, ''Southland Tales'' is really something else. Kelly's movie may not be entirely coherent, but that's because there's so much it wants to say."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0745,hoberman,78254,20.html |title=Revelation |access-date=2007-11-14 |last=Hoberman |first=J. |date=2007-11-06 |work=The Village Voice |archive-date=November 9, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109010951/http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0745,hoberman,78254,20.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Manohla Dargis]] also gave the film a positive review in ''[[The New York Times]]'', writing, "He doesn't make it easy to love his new film, which turns and twists and at times threatens to disappear down the rabbit hole of his obsessions. Happily, it never does, which allows you to share in his unabashed joy in filmmaking as well as in his fury about the times."<ref name="Dargis"/>
The film remains enigmatic to many viewers and even some of its makers. In a 2011 interview, Justin Timberlake himself said, "To me, ''Southland Tales'' is performance art. I still don't know what that movie is about."<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Hirschberg |first1=Lynn |date=October 1, 2011 |title=Yes They Can! Interview with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried |work=[[W (magazine)|W]] |publisher=Condé Nast |page=150 |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/justin-timberlake-amanda-seyfried-in-time-cover-story |access-date=May 26, 2018 |archive-date=May 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526190653/https://www.wmagazine.com/story/justin-timberlake-amanda-seyfried-in-time-cover-story |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013, Kelly said he considered this work as "the thing that I'm most proud of, and I feel like it's sort of the misunderstood child or the banished child."<ref name="MB">{{cite web |last=Riesman |first=Abraham |title=Richard Kelly on ''Southland Tales'': Complete and Unedited |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/southland-tales-richard-kelly-interview/ |work=[[Motherboard (website)|Motherboard]] |date=2013-07-08 |access-date=2018-04-28 |archive-date=April 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428181006/https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8qqywz/southland-tales-richard-kelly-interview |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Box office===
''Southland Tales'' grossed $275,380 in [[limited release]] at the North American box office and $99,363 in Turkey and United Kingdom for a worldwide total of $374,743,<ref name="BOM" >{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=southlandtales.htm |title=''Southland Tales'' (2007) |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |publisher=[[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] |access-date=2008-02-06 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327115452/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=southlandtales.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> against a production budget of $17 million.<ref name="TN"/><ref name="MB"/>
==Future==
In January 2021, Kelly announced that developments are underway to expand the film into a franchise with intention being that the original cast return. The filmmaker explained that the original film is "chapters 4–6",{{efn|name="Chapters"|In allusion to the [[Star Wars original trilogy|''Star Wars'' original trilogy]] (whose entries are labeled ''IV''-''VI'') having been created and released before the [[Star Wars prequel trilogy|prequel trilogy]] (whose entries are labeled ''I''-''III'').}} while a prequel project will explore "chapters 1–3"{{efn|name="Chapters"}} with intentions being to do so through an animation medium, while additional projects can explore events that take place in 2024.<ref name="EW2021">{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/movies/dwayne-johnson-southland-tales-justin-timberlake-sequel/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=Southland Tales director hopes to reunite with Dwayne Johnson for planned sequel|author=Collis, Clark|date=January 22, 2021|access-date=January 29, 2021}}</ref> He stated that discussions are ongoing as to whether the projects should be released as films or in a long-form format through a [[Streaming media|streaming service]].<ref name="Playlist2021">{{cite web|url=https://theplaylist.net/richard-kelly-southland-tales-interview-20210126|title=Richard Kelly Talks 'Southland Tales', The Time Travel Prequel & His James Cameron-Inspired 'Donnie Darko' Sequel [Interview]|work=The Playlist|date=January 26, 2021|access-date=January 29, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128203551/https://theplaylist.net/richard-kelly-southland-tales-interview-20210126/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of American films of 2007]]
* ''[[99 Francs (film)|99 Francs]]''
* ''[[A Scanner Darkly]]'' and its [[A Scanner Darkly (film)|film adaptation]]
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