Why is Richard's film so expressive, so deeply moving, that readers can join in whatever atmosphere and mood he creates?
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Layla 2022-03-23 09:01:59
fred was painfully aware that he didn't even remember sleeping with Donna at all. He woke up at the sound of a gunshot, thinking about his past life. Totally healthy but boring life, so he said "actually hate that". He is the victim of the D pill, but at the same time he is an "undercover". Of course, he is actually lying on another undercover, which is meaningful and sad at the end of the film.
Why is Richard's film so expressive, so deeply moving, that readers can join in whatever atmosphere and mood he creates?
Why is Richard's film so expressive, so deeply moving, that readers can join in whatever atmosphere and mood he creates?
Extended Reading
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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.
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Luckman: Well! So much for our great trip to San Diego Bob, I told you we should have gone to San Francisco.
Barris: What like going to San Francisco would not have caused this problem with the engine?
Luckman: Yeah because when you're going north, it screws this way, and when you're going south it screws that way!
Barris: If we were in Australia!