darkly means obscure

Madalyn 2021-12-14 08:01:11

A Scanner Darkly is one of the must-see works for many CGI enthusiasts this year. Five years ago, Walking Life was already the best advertisement.

And several other science fiction novels based on Philip K. Dick The difference between the adapted movies (Minority Report, Total Recall, etc.) is that the behind-the-scenes production of this film uses the so-called "rotoscoping" technology, which uses computer interpolation to process real people’s footage into an oil-like effect, which is better than pure real people. The cost of filming and traditional animation is much higher — the chief animator Lance Myers once said in an interview that the entire film took a total of 50 animators and a year and a half of work. Sometimes I think, so much Why is Zhou Zhang? Maybe just showing off new technology, or other more special reasons. Fortunately, this surreal style and the plot of optical camouflage and drugs in the story work perfectly.

Keanu Reeves is in the film He plays a fringe person with two completely different identities: Fred, a secret agent investigating drug cases, and Bob Arctor, an ordinary white-collar worker who lives a little bit of life and is mixed among a few friends of pigs and dogs. With the most cutting-edge optics Camouflage technology, his identity as an agent is not known to anyone other than his boss. However, because of his work, he unknowingly became addicted to the subject like the investigator. The side effects of the drug "Substance D" made him hallucinate Split with personality. Staring at his other half in the monitor every day, he can no longer tell what is true and what is false. Even he can no longer find his previous self.

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

The story contains a lot of philosophical discussions. Before I found the original script, I decided to put it aside for now.

However, I doubt the movie title "A Scanner Darkly" and the phrase "Through a Glass Darkly" have any metaphorical connection. -The main idea of ​​the latter is: Maybe we can't see ourselves clearly today, but they will always become clearly visible someday in the future. The heroine Donna once said when she sent her boyfriend (Bob Arctor/Fred) to compulsory detoxification at the end of the story "You'll see the way you saw before" may have a deeper meaning? There is also the mysterious organization "New Path" that is both righteous and evil, whether the name refers to "a new life away from drugs" It’s still the "Road to Redemption", which seems to be mostly ironic.

The soundtrack that sounded at the curtain call turned out to be Thom Yorke’s Black Swan. Perhaps I shouldn’t be too surprised
by my favorite single on the entire disc
. This song is the story of the most. Good endnote

People get crushed like biscuit crumbs
And laid down in the bed you made
You have tried your best to please everyone
But it just isn't happening
No, it just isn't happening

And it's fucked up, fucked up
And this is fucked up, fucked up
This your blind spot, blind spot
It should be obvious, but it's not.
But it isn't, but it isn't

(The original text comes from my blog, slightly modified.)
http://susser-tod.net/blog/2006/07/19/ nzff06-5-a-scanner-darkly/

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A Scanner Darkly quotes

  • 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 #2Medical Deputy #1: [in unison] Yes.

  • 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.