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I have finally got around to watching Richard Kelly’s (Donnie Darko) ‘Southland Tales’ starring Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott etc. It is a comedy science-fiction action musical love story that is politically charged and satirically driven all revolving around the end of the world. Wow so what genre is that?

I’m not going to write a plot synopsis or tell you who’s in it (imdb.com for that). All I will say is that I admit it was a little hard to watch at first. I did so want it to be a great film after the fantastic Donnie Darko, but I found myself a bit confused and agitated in the first half of the film. However the film seemed to flow much more freely in the latter half with the inclusion of beautiful tracking sequences against a fantastic soundtrack. In fact as soon as the film finished I had a sort of clarity, not in understanding what had just happened in that last 2 hours 40 minutes, but in that I knew it was a great film, and that had it not been past 1am I would’ve watched it again instantly.

I hurried upstairs after the credits were finished (yes I watch the credits) and imdb-ed, wiki-ed and finally ‘appropriated’ the soundtrack (came down the wire in 4 minutes!). I went to sleep, mind racing, content whilst I had the soundtrack on repeat. I cannot wait to watch it again!