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Southland Tales (2007)

★ 5.2 · 599 ratings on TMDB

This is the way the world ends.

Southland Tales poster★ 5.2

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

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Southland Tales keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E10/E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, authority, surveillance, politics, technology.

zero-distanceUSpowerauthoritysurveillancepoliticstechnology
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0entropyentropy does not increase; perpetual motion generates energy without loss (physics · universal)
E0timetime rifts allow duplicate versions of a person to coexist physically (physics · local)