Peter Smith interviewed
Richard Kelly, director of cult favorite Donnie Darko and the more recent Southland Tales. Pete didn’t like the director’s latest:
“I saw [Southland Tales] last week, eager to love it, and I hated it. It is
astoundingly misguided, a muddle of half-baked ideas, undeveloped characters
and plots that go nowhere. I hated it so much that I almost think you should
see it. This is the kind of movie that divides people. Its defenders will be as
loud as its critics will be plentiful.”
Kelly feels differently:
“There's a
very elaborate plot orchestration in this film. Moby is sort of the beating
heart of this movie in terms of his score. It all weaves together in my mind, I
think cause I've seen it so many times. Maybe because my colleagues and I,
who've worked on the film for so long, have seen it so many times, we can see
the film in hindsight, as opposed to seeing it in the immediate aftermath of a
first viewing.”
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