Film Of The Day

Southland Tales

Picked up last week and got 'round to watching this afternoon, so ;
Ok, I don't really know what it was about - I mean I followed the plot but I have little clue as to what the actual 'story' was.
The ending is on the verge of making some kind of sense but it's like when something is on the tip of your tongue and you can't quite get there.
It is a mess of ideas some of which seem to be left hanging forgotten and others half developed. Having said that there are some striking moments in there - the prologue, the Mega-Zepplin, the Killers dream sequence (at least I think it was a dream sequence).
Also some humourous stuff such as car.. er.. porn, the accusations scene, the 'improv' in the con by the neo-Marxists.
It's a shame that Kelly was allowed to over-reach himself so much as I can imagine if someone had made him scale down the ambition a little he may have come out with an exceptional second outing.
Still an interesting failure that still has more going for it than an awful lot of other films and here's hoping Kelly's next film will benefit from him getting Southland Tales out of his system