A Scanner Darkly
2006. Directed by Richard Linklater. Screenplay by Linklater, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick. Starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane, and Winona Ryder.
Richard Linklater decision to animate on top of life action was absolutely stunning in Waking Life, a use of cinema that was new and exciting to me. He returns with a similar approach to adapt Philip K. Dick's novel about an undercover police officer investigating an addictive drug who finds himself lost in addiction himself. The story is complicated and confusing and yet interesting. The animation, while it can't reclaim the stunning surprise and delight of Waking Life, is superb. I admired it more than I loved it, and there were times it even dragged a little for me. Woody Harrelson's crazed addict was a high point. The animation is really what makes it worth watching.
My grade: B+
Richard Linklater decision to animate on top of life action was absolutely stunning in Waking Life, a use of cinema that was new and exciting to me. He returns with a similar approach to adapt Philip K. Dick's novel about an undercover police officer investigating an addictive drug who finds himself lost in addiction himself. The story is complicated and confusing and yet interesting. The animation, while it can't reclaim the stunning surprise and delight of Waking Life, is superb. I admired it more than I loved it, and there were times it even dragged a little for me. Woody Harrelson's crazed addict was a high point. The animation is really what makes it worth watching.
My grade: B+
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