Brief analysis

Hollie 2022-03-21 09:01:59

Some details are still a bit far-fetched, such as why should the camouflage coat be changed all the time? Wouldn't it be possible to hide your identity with just one fixed color? I can understand that the director just wanted to show that in the last few scenes, the Actor has gradually been unable to distinguish the realistic punchline, but this setting is really a bit far-fetched and very confusing... There are many similar places, but see There is nothing wrong with thinking about the logic of the plot after the film is complete. Actor was not very sober from the beginning, his immediate boss was actually Donnie, his dealer girlfriend who he mistakenly thought looked like his own wife. In fact, Donnie is just soft-hearted for the Actor's good, and doesn't want him to continue to be used by the government to investigate the details of the New Path Company (that is, the last Recovery Center, the producer of blue flowers, which is the

The initiator of Substance D) However, Donnie's colleagues don't care about the actor's life or death at all, they are actually forcing the actor to take Substance D to be able to mix into the Recovery Center so as to take the opportunity to investigate the details of the New Path. It seems that the routine of the commercial plot below meticulously depicts the actor's thoughts and thoughts of the whole incident. It is the biggest attraction. There is a bit of the shadow of Gang Zuo news in it, but it greatly weakens the use of OV. Personally, I think it is a good thing. But I personally don't like this kind of script design. Because there are too many suspense settings, the frequency is too fast, and the speed of unlocking is delayed too much than the suspense, which leads to a lot of troubles caused by the logic problems of the plot, which makes people feel I'm very tired and can't concentrate on feeling the atmosphere created by the movie. Instead, I spend a lot of energy on solving doubts and plots, which is a bit of a business brain-burning... However, the core is an author's movie, so The configuration is estimated to be difficult for ordinary spectators to accept, and it is also difficult for movie-oriented audiences to buy it. (Just checked, budget 8.7M$, Box office only 7.7M$, sure enough.)

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Extended Reading
  • Kaya 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    This animation style is indeed very novel, and it is very suitable to restore the vision of a drug addict, but if the whole movie adopts this style, and it is a suspenseful inference film, it is not easy to watch it, but if you use this animation style , it will make the audience more confused, and if it is placed in other movies, it may achieve better results

  • Marlee 2021-12-14 08:01:11

    The ending is not sad

A Scanner Darkly quotes

  • Fred: What does a scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? Does it see into me? Clearly? Or darkly?

  • Fred: [voiceover] Crazy job they gave me. But if I wasn't doing it, someone else would be. And they might get it wrong. They might set Arctor up, plant drugs on him and collect a reward. Better it be me, despite the disadvantages. Just protecting everyone from Barris is justification in itself. What the hell am I talking about? I must be nuts. I know Bob Arctor. He's a good person. He's up to nothing. At least nothing too bad. In fact, he works for the Orange County Sheriff's office covertly, which is probably why Barris is after him. But that wouldn't explain why the Orange County Sheriff's office is after him. Something big is definitely going down in this house. This rundown, rubble-filled house with its weed patch yard and cat box that never gets emptied. What a waste of a truly good house. So much could be done with it. A family and children could live here. It was designed for that. Such a waste. They ought to confiscate it and put it to better use. I'm supposed to act like they aren't here. Assuming there's a "they" at all. It may just be my imagination. Whatever it is that's watching, it's not human, unlike little dark eyed Donna. It doesn't ever blink. What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me, into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly, because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again. I'll only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too.