# Reception I think that the Cannes Cut of [[Southland Tales]] would be received much better today than it was back in 2006. - The trend at the time was for shorter movies and that trend has reversed in the last few years. - A lot of people felt that it's theme of terrorism was "too soon" to make a dark satire about. Now I can hardly go a day without seeing a joke about some national tragedy. - In that era, it was still quite a touchy subject to criticize the PATRIOT Act. But as we've seen in the years since, it was prescient. - Surreal and absurd films have been blockbusters, particularly those of Christopher Nolan and The Daniels. I feel that audiences would feel less out of their depth due to media literacy. Is this just a long winded way to say it was ahead of its time? Yes, pretty much. # Differences The changes are many, and while there are large changes there are also many smaller ones. Changes from the Cannes Cut to the [[Southland Tales Theatrical Cut]]: - The mattes/greenscreen edges were improved dramatically, particularly in the Panopticon and megazeppelin - The television UI was changed to be more colorful and reorganized - `USIDentelevision` - TV commercials that were mundane or contemporary were removed in favor of newsreels, atomic test footage, or exposition, and scrolling through the channels no longer changed the channel until selected - The Krysta Now show's opening was trimmed - Krysta calling Fortunio as asshole was removed - During the raid, the UPU3 SWAT team no longer reports about the mole or cache of severed thumbs, Nana Mae and Starla's reactions to this are also cut - Kenny now says "Nana Mae can eat a fucking dick."