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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Southland Tales, it turns celebrity culture, media control and national unease into a fractured near-future fever dream, shifting boldly between political satire, paranoid science fiction and surreal visual invention.
02
Why this pick
Its Los Angeles conspiracy maze shares Southland Tales’ fascination with pop-cultural codes, damaged celebrity mythology and apocalyptic patterns, delivered with a knowingly absurd, shaggy-dog sense of paranoia.
03
Why this pick
A caustic corporate dystopia that keeps escalating into gleefully unhinged surrealism. It matches the film’s collision of social anxiety, broad comedy, conspiracy and deliberately destabilizing tonal shifts.
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Why this pick
This manic, color-saturated corporate nightmare pairs a bureaucratically controlled future with spiritual dread and absurd comedy—an equally maximalist vision of a world slipping out of rational alignment.
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Why this pick
Its rotoscoped surveillance-state delirium and identity fragmentation offer a more intimate counterpart to Southland Tales: funny, mournful and paranoid, with reality steadily becoming unreliable.
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01 / THE STORY
On Independence Day (United States), 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas (El Paso, Texas and Abilene, Texas) were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks, killing thousands and triggering a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending America into a state of anarchy and hysteria, as well as a Third World War (a fictionalized version of what the nation may have become under the War on Terror), with the US government re-introducing Conscription. The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizens—even to the extent of Internet censorship 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 ocean's 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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Madeline Frost-Santaros
Fortunio Balducci
Dr. Inga Von Westphalen
Serpentine
General Teena MacArthur
Dr. Soberin Exx
Bing Zinneman
Vanessa Vera Cruz
