"What do I have to do to catch that person? You can send her flowers. Any flower shop can buy flowers this season. Send her little blue flowers." The doctor's psychological suggestion made Arter pick it up unconsciously on the farm. A small blue flower was tucked into the trousers. He thought it was for his friend—and someone he liked, Donna—for Thanksgiving. However, this is clearly not a love story, Art is just a poor undercover spy who has been kept in the dark. The way the film is drawn (and the effects of changing clothes) can't help but make you dizzy when you watch it too long, presumably to show the fuzzy feeling of being delirious after taking drugs. The director (turned out to be the director of Love in the trilogy) greets his loved ones at the end of the film, and can't help but think of how many people are suffering in the drug-infested Western countries. Between the addicts and the anti-drug police, there is no one beneficiary.
Finally, I also want to ask, can the scanner in the dark see through the lost self?
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