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Confused male protagonist and mysterious, neurotic brunette woman
Frederik 2022-03-23 09:01:59
The surreal style works perfectly with the story's optical camouflage and drug addiction. Philip K. Dick himself was amphetamine-dependent and lived with a group of drug-dependent people, which may have led him to write the novel with a mentality of self-dissection, thus giving it a particularly cruel and heavy weight. feeling, and brought that feeling into the film. Death was approaching almost at the same time, and happiness was only a memory. It's just an acceleration of the way ordinary people exist. If there is a "sin" in the world, the "sin" is when people want to be happy forever and be punished for that. Confused male protagonists, terrifying mega-corporations and mysterious, neurotic brunette women.
Extended Reading
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Medical Deputy #2: Damage has taken place to the normally dominant left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere is attempting to compensate.
Fred: The two hemisphere in my brain... are competing?
Medical Deputy #2, Medical Deputy #1: [in unison] Yes.
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Medical Deputy #1: You know, Fred, if you keep your sense of humor like you do, you just might make it.
Fred: Make it? Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make do? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your terms. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which always reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I have been getting jack shit in that department as of late.