Synopsis
Everything is not going to be OK
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
2006 Directed by Richard Linklater
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Keanu Reeves Robert Downey Jr. Woody Harrelson Winona Ryder Rory Cochrane Mitch Baker Sean Allen Cliff Haby Steven Chester Prince Natasha Valdez Mark Turner Chamblee Ferguson Angela Rawna Eliza Stevens Sarah Menchaca Melody Chase Leif Anders Turk Pipkin Alex Jones Lisa Marie Newmyer Wilbur Penn Ken Webster Hugo Perez Rommel Sulit Dameon Clarke Christopher Ryan Leila Plummer Jason Douglas Marco Perella Show All…
Skip Lievsay Tom Hammond Justin Hennard Ethan Andrus Gregg Barbanell Jeremy Peirson Peter Germansen Jason Piatt
Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) Thousand Words Detour Filmproduction Section Eight 3 Arts Entertainment
Una mirada a la oscuridad, Scanner Darkly, A, Neižvelgiamas pasaulis, Viziuni întunecate, Temacno zrcalo, Камера потъмняла, Temný obraz, A Scanner Darkly - Der dunkle Schirm, A Scanner Darkly (Una mirada en la oscuridad), Läbi hägu, Hämärän vartija, סורק אפלה, Replikator, Kamera által homályosan, A Scanner Darkly - Un oscuro scrutare, スキャナー・ダークリー, 스캐너 다클리, Przez ciemne zwierciadło, O Homem Duplo, A Scanner Darkly - O Homem Duplo, Помутнение, Mračni skener, Karanlığı Taramak, Затьмарення, 黑暗扫描仪, 世紀毒殺網絡, 心機掃描
Crime, drugs and gangsters Monsters, aliens, sci-fi and the apocalypse Humanity and the world around us High speed and special ops Drugs and violent crime Thought-provoking sci-fi action and future technology Dreamlike, quirky, and surreal storytelling Politics, propaganda, and political documentaries Guns, crime, and violent action Show All…
not to be that thirsty bitch but i want to liquify rotoscope gta looking keanu reeves and inject him into my veins heroin-style
the latin for “make” is “facere” which always reminds me of “fuckere” which is latin for “to fuck”. and i haven’t been getting SHIT in that department lately.
Film #10 of 'It's June Jim, but not as we know it.'
A Scanner Darkly is perhaps the most faithful Philip K. Dick adaptation I've ever seen. It is my favourite novel of his, a mind bending, deeply emotional and autobiographical Science Fiction novel and I guess that's why I never bothered with this adaptation. I truly respect Linklater's attempts to stay as close to the original even though he unfortunately favours form over content.
Linklater's rotoscopic technique is a bit of a double edged sword for me here. I loved how the animation made me share in how all the druggies in the film view the world. It is a kaleidoscopic experience, sometimes with a surreal world, sometimes with…
Perhaps the most indescribably evocative film ever made, functioning on both an emotive and formal level, it's a comedy until it stops being funny. Linklater's achievement is essentially unmatched in the medium of animation.
Honestly don't know what to feel about this. I know I enjoyed it. I also know I probably won't remember this movie that much.
People who don't like - or can't appreciate - this film are nothing but a bunch of shape-shifting-albino-lizard-bitches!
i had every intention to say something about martyrs and scapegoats and victims of (supposedly) architectonic goals & ideologies, but then the film concluded with an excerpt from Philip K. Dick's afterword, which made me cry in a very sad & helpless way. i found the entirety of the afterword after finishing the movie, which i'll paste below when i finish rambling. but i'd like to first pull some snippets both adapted for the film & not included:
"This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over,…
Linklater's second foray at rotoscope animation is, in my opinion, better in almost every way than his first. For instance, while the first film felt like a pretentious experiment, this one has a better story, though it also tends to meander, especially at the beginning and end.
Nonetheless, one of the best things Linklater does is capture much of Dick's spirit, particularly that sense of constant paranoia and the blending of futurism and realism. He also manages to leverage several of his actors' talents and qualities to the film's advantage, from RDJ's quippy self, Harrelson's neurotic, to Reeves' Reevesness. Also, the rotoscope animation is better used, and while it looks cool, it reaches a point where it appears stagnant and becomes tiresome.
All in all, a solid story with some decent visuals and performances makes this a decent time.
TODAY SCHEDULE
Heavy Metal
Cool World
Waking Life
A Scanner Darkly
I tend not to cotton as much to Linklater's occasional digressions into pessimism (I still need to revisit BEFORE MIDNIGHT but as of now I find its oversimplification of once-rich characters into petty, hyper-gender-specific squabblers to be a great disappointment). But from A SCANNER DARKLY's grim opening, which tacitly updates Rory Cochrane's good-natured stoner from DAZED & CONFUSED as a total burnout hallucinating bugs forever crawling over his skin, the deep cynicism and dejection is balanced by Linklater's natural sense of humor. Indeed, what I loved most about the film, apart from how beautifully the rotoscoped animation captures the fluidity of Dick's prose, is how it reorients Linklater's penchant for run-on philosophical chat as addict-speak.
This is especially true of RDJ's…
___________________________________________________________________________________
Film #15 of the February Movie Challenge : Keanu Reeves or Bust!
letterboxd.com/naughty/list/february-movie-challenge-keanu-reeves-or/
___________________________________________________________________________________
According to a quote from Asher's Review Anyone whom didn't like or can't appreciate this film are nothing but a bunch of shape shifting albino lizard bitches!
So I'm here to confess I AM nothing but a shape shifting albino lizard bitch! And shape shifting albino lizard bitches cannot live on style alone! We need things like flies, insects, grubs and other things of substance like CONTENT! Which in my opinion there was very little of as the film progressed!
It is amusing, dark and trippy! It simply didn't ring my chimes!