Southland Tales
Southland Tales is a 2006 scifi dramedy thriller film and the second film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the thennear future of 2008, as part of an alternate history, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles, and a satiric commentary on the militaryindustrial complex and the infotainment industry. The film features an ensemble cast including Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore, and Justin Timberlake. Original music for the film was provided by Moby. The film is an international coproduction of the United States and Germany.
On July 4th, 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas El Paso and Abilene were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks that triggered a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending America into a state of anarchy and hysteria, as well as a Third World War a fictionalized perspective of what the War on Terror wouldve escalated to. The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as USIDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizenseven to the extent of censoring the Internet and requiring fingerprints to access computers and bank accounts. 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. However, its inventor Baron von Westphalen and his associates are hiding the fact that the generators alter the oceans currents and cause the Earth to slow its rotation, and that the transmission of Fluid Karma to portable receivers via quantum entanglement is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.In nearfuture 2008, Los Angeles referred to as The Southlands by locals is a city on the brink of chaos overshadowed by the growth of the underground neoMarxist organization. The film follows the crisscrossed destinies of Boxer Santaros Dwayne Johnson, an action film actor stricken with amnesia Krysta Now Sarah Michelle Gellar, a psychic exporn star in the midst of creating a reality TV show and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner both Seann William Scott, whose destinies become intertwined with that of all mankind. The Taverner twins are revealed to be the same person by the engineers of Treer, duplicated when Roland traveled through a rift in spacetime, while Boxer has become the most wanted man in the world despite his political ties and his having the fate of the future, in the form of a prophetic screenplay foretelling the end of the world, in
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