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  Review by maria ★★★½ 20

  not to be that thirsty bitch but i want to liquify rotoscope gta looking keanu reeves and inject him into my veins heroin-style

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  Review by iana ★★★★ 2

  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. 

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  Review by DirkH ★★★½ 1

  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…

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  Review by Josiah Morgan ★★★★½

  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.

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  Review by Ethan Ethan ★★★ 3

  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.

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  Review by Asher ★★★★★ 8

  People who don't like - or can't appreciate - this film are nothing but a bunch of shape-shifting-albino-lizard-bitches!

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  Review by Tay 17

  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,…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 31

  JUNIMATION

  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.

  JUNIMATION

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★ 2

  $50 for an 18 speed bike is a pretty good deal

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  Review by Ruben ★★★★ 4

  This movie intoxicating and wacky

  That’s my review

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★ 1

  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…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★½ 12

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  Film #15 of the February Movie Challenge : Keanu Reeves or Bust!
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  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!