Reel Retrospective: My Lengthy Defense of Southland Tales
“This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a whimper… but with a bang.” Or so says Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake), the Iraq vet who sees all in Southland Tales, the epic dystopian comedy from the wildly underestimated mind of Richard Kelley. Kelley was the man behind Donnie Darko. The divisive The Box. And with Southland Tales, his eerily--no, uncannily--prescient Bush-era satire, he cemented in the minds of a