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Oliver Weiss
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A Scanner Darkly - "They are watching me"
A Scanner Darkly is copyright Warner Independent Pictures
This is in my opinion a beatiful scene that deserves to be watched because of its intensity. If you liked this film, you should really read the book written by the master Philip K Dick. Here's the plot taken from wikipedia
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 science fiction thriller directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic. The movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage, giving it its distinctive look
This is in my opinion a beatiful scene that deserves to be watched because of its intensity. If you liked this film, you should really read the book written by the master Philip K Dick. Here's the plot taken from wikipedia
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 science fiction thriller directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic. The movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage, giving it its distinctive look
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They are watching me.
The Best film. I Watch in 2006, SP - Brazil.
"such a waste"...
Drugs ruin families and households.
What’s worse is that he was played from the start. Higher powers made him an addict as a Hail Mary to take down a drug manufacturer.
the construction of multiple paranoid narratives simultaneously and their collapse back into reality was perfectly conveyed in the book
every time I stressed and couldn't sleep and cry, I watch this film ending, that little blue flower scene gets me crying every time.
Jesus said in John 8:12 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
I've always loved the hopeless symbolism in this scene. It captures the book's sentiment and adds bleakness to the even more ill fated story. So many social commentaries can be derived from the movie and each of them can be traced to the same force that is the catalyst to all the problems caused in it: humanity. I love this movie so much.
Its awe inspiring, hilarious, tragic , sad and terrifying all at once. Just like a serious amphetamine problem.
this made me zone out, disassociate...
The end of the book and of the movie with the list of his friends' names (and his own name - !Phil with pancreatic damage") gives me goosebumps every time.
Fuck twitch
i wish real life could have this comic aesthetic
This is the part we’re Philip is Mono logging about is own house and how much filthy it has become
Keanu’s reading of these lines is so fucking perfect. Absolutely nails this feeling of helpless sorrow at any hope of understanding slipping away.
Honestly, it might be his best performance. He fits with the material so perfectly.
he’s very good at portraying a brain-damaged junkie that mumbles a lot, probably because he’s a stoner himself
He’s very good at playing a mumbly, brain-damaged junkie, probably because he himself is a stoner.
Dude isnt on anyone's list of greatest actors. Not gonna compete with Daniel day lewis for awards , but the roles he is right for no one could've did better.
@@jculver1674 I've always thought it was his best performance. Well, alongside Bill and Ted...
this monologue is fucking brilliant
amazing scene
Severely underrated movie
Call me crazy, but this monologue is right up there with Macbeth's "tomorrow and tomorrow" to me.
The thesis to the plot.
Gangstalking..... look it up
she looks like the apophatic phaneron
John Wick is that you?!
Good thing no HOA right lol
He's making an appeal for gods love and understanding in a world without god. Bob is the mesh-suit. He moves seemlesy between personalities, which all contradict each other, and are often beyond his understanding or power to even challenge. He uses D as an escape, but it only splits his mind further. He appeals to the only thing in his dystopian nightmare world that is analogous to the eyes of god, the scanners. Maybe they can finally see his heart, and piece together something real he can love wholeheartedly. It's a hopeless effort, Bob can only sink further into his drug-induced, or more accurately culturally-induced, schizophrenia and watch it as it happens to him.
Beautifully said.
This is me with my mind being eaten away at the mental health I'm going through. All I know is that everything is pointless and meaningless. I'll die soon I'm sure.
Are you still around man?
hey dude are you still there
Yes he's there. He updated a playlist 2 days ago. Just because someone despairs doesn't mean they're suicidal. It's a sad fact of reality that life sucks, therefore it's natural to feel bad, especially if you're a lesser than.
@@MrGuggisberg true brother🙏 its something we gotta live with sadly
Have you ever tried cheering up?
It's so weird that Alex Jones is in this movie
When you crank the unreliable narrator up to 11!
I guess it's 3 unreliable narrators if you get right down to it ;) (Bob, Fred, Bruce)
This movies is so unique
He no longer cares that the "scanners" are tracking his every movement, know everything about him and are as omnipotent as god. He just wishes from the bottom of his heart that they can see SOME good in him, that there's some hope for his future.
I think he isn't even worried about if the scanners can see any good in him. He just hopes that they can see the truth about him. He can't understand himself. So he just hopes that somebody can.
Why does everybody only mention something to the extent of drug addiction and spying? It's beyond that. This movie is about the anomalies that unfortunately rise out of the abyss, however you got yourself into it, whether the trap of meth or knowing too much conspiracy-wise, even pissing off the wrong person: The anomaly is targeted individuals. This movie is about remote neural monitoring of targeted individuals and MK-Ultra. People in the Mafia see each other in real life as animated (cel-shaded) just like in this movie, hence MK-Ultra visuals. While I don't remember it diving into the voice to skull / V2K (ability to hear actual perpetrator's voices in your head and conversate with them through your mind) it clearly shows how people will throw you under the bus and how 'The Matrix' has you. It's weird how Keanu Reeves plays all these sacrificial roles. I'm a targeted individual myself who has conversations in my head with actual people, using voice to skull on me. Maybe movies can only go so deep. I know 'The Matrix Reloaded' has a VERY deep scene in the skyscraper on the floor where the Merovingian subsides about control and how he uses the orgasmic cake as a form of control, much like the remote sexual weapons the Mafia uses on me. This all probably ties into MK-Ultra.
The movie may have intended that, but the book was primarily a drug novel. Not to say it didn't tackle surveillance, consumer culture, complex societal norms, or identify (boy did it tackle identity!), I just mean it was written as a tribute to his fallen friends. The Afterward explains that before listing some of their names and the results of their drug use, the author included
This monologue really conveys the hopelessness an addict feels when they're in active addiction
This and the Lion's Club meeting speech, both were genuinely painful yet beautifully worded. Powerful book
"Now , in this dark world where I dwell , ugly things and surprising things and sometimes little wonderous things spill out at me constantly, and I can count on nothing..." is the quote that gets me.
The redundant person in the throws of redundant redundancy.
One of the best scenes in any film ever!
Lindo💖💟
RIP Sunshine cinema, L. E. S
"They ought to confiscate it and put it to better use". Yes story of my life atleast
Anyone who knows about this movie yall amazing
I never realized until recently that Arctor is actually an author avatar for Philip K Dick. Knowing that somehow makes this scene (and a lot of the rest of the book/movie) much more powerful.
The end of the book and of the movie with list of his friends names (and his own name - Phil with pancreati damage) gives me goosebumps every time.
Just a few letters away from Author
This story was the closest to PKDs reality.
This is us right now 2020
Reddit sent me here what the fuck is this
Its im oour hand now! Smartphone ia a spie .
Very good anti prohibition film! You can see how a society that fully embraces drug prohibition is very communist like.
Ive felt this way so many times...
My sentiments exactly.. :(
I wish they'd release a version without the rotoscoping
As someone who's lived it and is living it, I don't think there has ever been a better and more accurate artistic representation of addiction, psychosis, and decent into mental illness than this book and this film. What always really stuck with me is that it took until the 3rd or 4th time I watched the movie to realize that the point of the bike scene was to show how insane they were and how warped their minds were. It didn't even register at all, I had conversations just like it with my friends almost every night at that point.
Agreed, I loved Freck's character so much partly because I saw so many similarities between us, especially in the way he'd do his private trips and his gullibility. It made the perceived abandonment of his friends and ensuing suicide attempt hit that much harder when it happened. And the bs talk between friends was so accurate it could have been taken from one of our circles, Phil totally wrote this from experience
@@joeytofil2259 definitely. At the end of the book (and movie if I recall correctly) he dedicates it to friends dead or lost, a long list of names with the consequences they faced beside them. The characters were indeed based on real friends he had, some were amalgamations of many people, some were more specific. It’s a rare book for PKD. It’s heartbreaking, authentic, deeply personal. I LOVE his other writings, especially The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch. But A Scanner Darkly, both when I was using, and now that I’m in recovery, is the closet piece of art that represents how I felt about my experience. The dynamic of his circle of friends is so ridiculously on point, I was surprised they did such a good job of adapting the screenplay.
In the book the "9 speed bike" scene is more explained, because Bob brings it up (offhand) to the police shrinks and they're astonished that he doesn't understand why that bit of junkie logic is a big deal - Substance D causes aphasia, the inability to make meaningful connections between different sections of the brain. Out of three grown men, not one of them could puzzle out how a bike with 6 gears in the front and 3 in the back could POSSIBLY be called an 18 speed bike. Then they get paranoid and enraged because they can't figure it out.
There’s a scene in the book where Arctor is going through surveillance footage and has completely disassociated with himself. Looking at him and his friends from an outside perspective, he goes “It was hours and hours of nonsense. How could anybody keep going on like this, oblivious?”
All I wanted was a Pepsi
This has been stuck in my mind since I saw it a truly great film
Substance D is basically methamphetamine.
Mark Heckerman which was what PKD was allegedly known to be fond of
This movie is mindblowing but is criminally underrated!! I love this movie so much, I watched several times but it stills amazes me! Hope to read the book someday
Did you ever get round to reading the book?
@@garyking1986 lol
This film is of profound importance to me.
Same
count me in as well
Can you explain why? :)
Love to see other people on the planet that connected to this material.
@@anitapallenberg690 For me it's resonated with my drug life. Been using all kinds of drugs since I was 15, I will be 30 tomorrow 08/01. Been using heroin for over a decade now. And valium and now fake valium. I've experienced paranoia. Slowly losing your mind feeling. The decay of oneself. I've been around houses like that. Been around people that betray you. I've seen friends go through hell. Even though I'm on methadone now, I still see that life. As I have no family other than the addicts that I used drugs with now. I feel like the movie really resonates with me. And it certainly did my friend even older drug addict when I showed him the movie he loved it.