Soporific

soporific



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–adjective

1. causing or tending to cause sleep.

2. pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.



–noun

3. something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.





　

Southland Tales is certainly a ridiculous film, but whether that was accidental or intentional gets blurred by Kelly's aggressively comedic version of the apocalyptic near future. How else to explain the casting of such TV castoffs and SNL retreads as Jon Lovitz, John Larroquette, Cheri Oteri, and Nora Dunn, when Darko's cachet clearly could have garnered better talent? 



(Unless, after using Patrick Swayze in his first film, Kelly was just fixated on reviving careers.) 



Even the heavy lifting is left to B-level actors like Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson. Johnson comes off most hilariously, playing a character whose goofy name, Boxer Santaros, is typical of Kelly's approach. 



An amnesiac action hero married to the daughter of a vice presidential candidate, Boxer spends much of the movie with his hands twitching in front of his face -- Johnson's laughable interpretation of shell shock. 



"Laughable" is the best way to encapsulate a would-be epic that tries to tackle Big Brother, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, neo-Marxism, celebrity, alternative energy, drug abuse, the Iraq War, and time travel, all drenched in Justin Timberlake's soporific biblical narration. 



There are enough little moments that echo the best parts of Donnie Darko -- both thematically and stylistically -- that Southland Tales isn't a total waste. Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days is also fondly evoked on occasion. Still, Kelly's next project will have to be heaps more coherent, or it will be his last. 





narcolepsy 

anemic

Creaks along like an anemic [snail]

slumber

to sleep, esp. lightly; doze, drowse

to slumber the afternoon [away].  

to slumber cares [away]. 

She gazed with affection at his slumbering [form]. slumber party!!!

drowsy 

"If you were any thinner you wouldn't exist," [drowsy] hooker Jennifer Jason Leigh mumbles

bleary

bleary-[eyed]

with all its gorgeous, [bleary] vistas and splattered bugs on the windshield. 

repose

Wearing a waved salt-and-pepper [toupee] and spending much of his screen time smoking in [repose] while his v.o. does the narrative work

Languid