tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122696613598074528.post6588437639533179973..comments2023-11-02T06:29:14.573-07:00Comments on Bobo Fag: Review: Southland Tales - Riding a big glowing Zeppelin to Armageddon...Matt Siglhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18192264713975819929noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1122696613598074528.post-55401478262712900342007-11-29T14:01:00.000-08:002007-11-29T14:01:00.000-08:00Nice job unpacking Kelly's messy political agenda,...Nice job unpacking Kelly's messy political agenda, which indeed does seem rather self-defeating. The whole film, in fact, may be a muddle, but taken as a whole I find it a particularly resonant vision of our world, exaggerated into extreme grotesquerie and reduced to the point of absurdity. You wonder if "Southland Tales [is] merely nihilistic pornography, luxuriating at the sight of the world blowing itself to smithereens." In a way, I think that's what it ultimately amounts to but, despite its lack of coherence, I think it works as a potent vision of contemporary America imagined as comic nightmare. In the end, we're all doomed, but we might as well go out laughing.andrew schenkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03827165807994115459noreply@blogger.com