Saturday, August 18, 2007

A Scanner Darkly

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Mind blowing. I've been a fan of Philip K. Dick for, well, forever. At least since Blade Runner came out.

I was a little hesitant seeing this movie given the hatchet job that Reeves did to William Gibson's Neromancer (Johnny Mnemonic) but I shouldn't have been. This movie is cut straight from the story, the dialog reads right from the pages. It's complex, gritty, self-referential and self-conflicted... and heavily paranoid just like Dick. The fact that it was animated over the movie images (see pic above) makes it work. Must see.


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