It fails to keep the mystery it's trying to uphold.. and comes off as a movie more about drugs than an actual story.. like a cross between Waking Life and Requiem For a Dream.. where the story goes out the window like in Waking Life (but still feels cool) and like in RfaD, speculates on the degredation of the human mind when we succumb to our weaknesses..
and after the seeing the movie I couldn't understand why they choose the title A Scanner Darkly .. a few dialouges briefly touches on the subject "what does a scanner see?", but that's about it.. the movie is far more about what we choose to see..
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You do know it is based on a Philip K. Dιck book (from whence it gets its name), don't you?
I didn't like the film; it has a lot of promise (how could it not: PKD was a philosopher and a futurist), but was just not well executed. In fact I don't know if it would even be possible to make this as a traditional film at all: the rotoscoping did help, but it was not sufficient to save the film.
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If that was directed at me, of course I know its a Mr. D!ck story.
So it's nothing like the story basically?