This is the way the world ends.In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly achieved cult status with Donnie Darko, an assured debut feature exploring deep existential questions through the lens of 80s nostalgia. Five years later, he followed up with a more ambitious and even more beguiling sophomore effort, in which forces of totalitarianism and anarchism collide against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic, near-future worldthe beguiling and baffling Southland Tales.Los Angeles, 2008. As the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental chaos, the fates of an eclectic set of charactersincluding an amnesia-stricken action star (Dwayne Johnson, the Fast & Furious series), an adult film star developing her own reality TV project (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cruel Intentions) and a police officer whose identity has split in two (Seann William Scott, TVs Lethal Weapon)intertwine with each other and with the whole of humanity.A darkly comic futuristic epic that speaks as pres