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This was a bad acid trip where your mind goes crazy and
takes you to all these intricate, detailed places that
would never make sense. But, somehow they do because
you're high. However as the not high audience, we just
find it irritating. This is not a plot driven story,
it's a dark story expressing the struggles one could
have with drugs. It's set in the future so it's in a
time and place where there is a new drug that is all
encompassing and its in a time where the government is
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movie is definitely not for everyone, unless you are ready
to watch a boring movie for the time passing is slow and
more scattered than deliberate. Yes the movie is visually
incredible, but the graphics are not yet mainstream. It was
like watching a movie, but was kinda like watching a
cartoon, but more like a movie. There were definitely some
positive aspects of having it more like a cartoon when you
were seeing the hallucinations, or with the every man
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This was an interesting choice of actors, I want to know if
they intentionally choose well known Hollywood slackers, to
bring their own personal baggage and issues of a not so
perfect background to the screen. Life imitating art,
imitating real life on screen? We follow Robert Arctor (Keanu
Reeves)
who is dating Donna Hawthorne (Winona
Ryder)
and they are mixed up in both the law and the drug field.
Bob's best friends are Ernie Luckman (Woody
Harrelson)
and James Barris (Robert
Downey Jr.)
and they are also friends with this really sketchy guy named
Charles Freck (Rory
Cochrane).
They are all in a tragic and downward spiral as they get
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The introduction to the movie is a scene where Charles Freck
(Rory
Cochrane)
is freaking out on all these bugs that are crawling all over
him and freaking him out. You don't have to ever had to
have a trip on a hallucinogens to understand the intensity
of that situation for I felt his frustration and his pain.
However the entire movie was frustrating and full of bizarre
paranoia. I did enjoy the fact that Bob was hired to spy on
himself, that was trippy. |
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I
did not like this movie until the last several minutes where
there actually had a sibilance of a plot, and sucked in my
attention for it started to get interesting. The best way I
can describe this film is imagine you and a few of your
friends stay up for 40 hours straight, with no sleep and
while you are talking and or debating certain situations
ideas seem vital and important at the time where as any
other time they may not even have any relevance at all. I
think you should wait till this movie comes out on DVD,
however if you decide to go see this movie you must know
that this was a book written by Phillip K Dick as a way for
him to tell the horror stories of drugs and the affect it
has had on him and his friends lives. Please know that
before you go see it, it would have enhanced my experience
if I knew I was watching a futuristic horror story about
drugs. |
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A Scanner Darkly
Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Animation
and Adaptation. Set in a future world where America has lost
the war on drugs, an undercover cop, Fred, is one of many
agents hooked on the popular drug Substance D, which causes
its users to develop split personalities. Fred, for
instance, is also Bob, a notorious drug dealer. Along with
his superior officers, Fred sets up an elaborate scheme to
catch Bob and tear down his operation. 100 minutes. MPAA
Rating: R (for drug and sexual content, language and a brief
violent image).
Official Movie Site:
wip.warnerbros.com/ascannerdarkly |
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