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Are there any books like this movie? I guess Donnie Darko too, but Southland is better.

>> No.1769878

god, that movie. i've watched twenty times and i still can't figure out if it's brilliant or terrible. which i guess means it's brilliant.

>> No.1769880

>>1769878
Had the exact same experience. Except I only watched it twice. But, yeah. Is it awful? It's filled to the brim with really terrible actors.

But is Richard Kelly making some sort of metapoint with the selection of shitty actors?

It fills my mind with fuck.

>> No.1769886

>>1769880
Op here, I know how you two feel. I enjoy it so much that It's hard for me to think of it as accidental, I keep thinking the actor choice was intentionally terrible, and yet in the end the best choice because of it.

>> No.1769896

>>1769861

Try the graphic novel that the movie is based on.

>> No.1769902

>>1769886
>>1769880
it seems hard to imagine it's not intentional. i eventually settled on it as sort of the book of revelations through the lens of southern california celebrity culture, sort of an impressionistic portrait of a particular time. but it keeps shifting. i keep thinking "or maybe it's just awful" and then "no, it's too perfect to be awful. perfectly awful?"

one things for sure, and that's that i'm a pimp. and pimps don't commit suicide.

>> No.1769916

>>1769896
I thought it was just a tie-in? It's supposed to be a prequel I think.

>> No.1769939

Try Philip K. Dick. Thomas Pynchon might be worth a look, too.

>> No.1769941

>>1769939

oh yeah, this. sorry, we never even answered your question. lol

>> No.1769942

>>1769916
Ah, looks like the graphic novels was a lead in. Never mind then.