a scanner darkly

[Jason Manley]

I am a fan of great writing and that was some of the best I have seen on film in a while. great job I thought...the distortion from the rotoscoping and fx really helped the feeling of psychosis and madness...the characters were also really great....

havent read the book though..so will have to pick it up.


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[Interceptor]

I've been curious about the movie. I heard some good things about the story. But to me the visual style seems a bit gimmicky. I've seen it incar insurance commercials, shorts films and everything, and got a bit overdone. Plus.. Waking Life was a physical pain to watch after a while.

I think I'll check it out, though.If the story is as good as you say.

[Jason Manley]

:) when you see it, you will understand why they made that decision.


if u can point out a better rendition of psychosis anywhere in film id love to see it (barring the shining cuz nothing touches kubrick). though this is on a whole different level than the shining. was very well done.

[CruShTinbOX]

Yeah, this movie is fantastic. I also thought the visual style was going to be gimmicky before I actually saw it, but it makes total sense within the context of the film and honestly after seeing it I couldn't imagine it any other way. Go see it.

[jfwalls]

Naked Lunch was a good "psychosis" movie.

[madplanet]

When I saw this I thought of parallels with Naked Lunch, too. Psychosis, drugs and bugs. There were times when watching the movie that I kind of lost track of what was going on because I was paying a little too much attention to the animation. yikes! I'll have to read the book, as well.

[gorillagrin]

Just wanted to chime in here in agreement. I went in thinking the visual style was going to be gimmicky (and maybe to a point it was), but it really did fit with the movie. I had a very claustrophobic feeling the whole time.. felt almost like I was wearing one of the scramble-suits myself. I was very pleasantly surprised by the movie.

[young paddy1]

I enjoyed the odd slighty tweaky way the whole thing moved along and the stylization up to a point, although the mouths were always annoying and tended to interfere with what was said and the way things were lined out grated my eyes a touch.

I enjoyed videodrome for something a little freaky

[Spacemanchuck]

I friggin loved, loved, loved, loved, friggin LOVED IT!!!!!!!! We've been talking about it a shit load in my 2d animation class at school. Some love it and some hate it, I love it.

[Lazy]

I havent seen it yet but i have seen "Waking Life" which really made you think.
I really find "A Scanner Darkly" interesting, into the obscure original stuff.
But i still dont get how they did the rotorscopings, looks like tracing with Illustrator or Flash.

[hito]

Linklater stuck very close to the book, many lines are lifted directly from the book.

[arttorney]

The book left me in a strange mental tailspin for several days after I read it. I felt very deeply for Bob Arctor at the end. There's other stuff I don't want to spoil about the end. Haven't seen the movie, but it sounds like they included the aphids, which rocks.

For folks that enjoy this kind of mind-effin I highly recommend a book called UBIK by the same author (Philip K. Dick for the uniniated). Cyber-punk from before the phrase was invented. His book "Flow my tears the Policeman Said" also moved me a lot. Stay away from "The Zap Gun" and "Pan Galactic Pot Healer" but "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" are OK.

[WhizBang]

I loved this flick. Visually cool and it had great stroytelling.