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15 years ago, the director of Donnie Darko destroyed his own career

So begins Southland Tales, the wildly ambitious second film from writer/director Richard Kelly.  Kelly’s three films ( Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, The Box) all share a unique sensibility, featuring outsider characters struggling to exist within a mundane normal in the foreground, with the very nature of existence and reality up for the debate against the margins.  In these works, Kelly frequently uses the element of water, and the concept of time, as the shades he colors with.Â�...