A Scanner Darkly

Freda 2021-12-14 08:01:11



Supporting role performances can be scored 10 points, those few with Actor.
Although I saw Winona Ryder's name at the beginning, and knew she must be the heroine. But after I watched the film, I remembered, why didn't I find that the pitiful woman of the opposite sex 4 made a person, or was the face of a vampire who looked like a human in the 400 years of frightened vampires? She was really unrecognizable after she became an animation, but Keanu was still sharp.
Decadence and confusion enveloped the whole film. In a society that is fully monitored and chaotic, drug abuse will inevitably become a popular product. The film always mentions Substance D, a drug called substance D. The biggest suspense lies in this, the source of D material, the role of the protagonist in the event. Of course, the mystery will be solved one by one, surprise step by step. I only thought of the first one (his boss). I thought it was nothing but that, but I didn't expect the true result of the incident that was quickly revealed later. I want to look at the original novel by Philip K. Dick again... Some details of this novel come from the author's own drug use experience.
I like this type of film, as well as Roman Polanski's "The Ninth Gate", Keanu's other "Constantine", "Interview with the Vampire". Some are black, fantasy, and weird. The driving force of the living



and the dead in exchanging ownership of the
dead thing is stronger than the driving force of the living thing.
Living should never be used to serve the purpose of death,
but death should-if possible-serve the purpose of living. And service...
I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, turning into a blue field







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  • Hoyt 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    12.09 Key words of the day: big-eyed sister; Radiohead; eczema; popcorn............I think Linklater could have done better..."this has been a story about people who were punished entirely too much for what they did" I read it just a little sad.....

  • Monty 2022-04-20 09:01:43

    It is close to "Nude Lunch", but also has the tone of film noir. In the future towards totalitarianism, drugs are a powerful means of controlling people's hearts. The visual aspect is like the artistic processing of the "filters" in PS. It just sketches the real images. Since words and deeds are exactly the same as real people, it is still a real-life movie in the final analysis. Only some of the hallucinatory scenes are conducive to the presentation of animation.

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.