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A Scanner Darkly

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“What does a scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? Does it see into me? Clearly? Or darkly?”

A majestic film, very close to the book — shot digitally then rendered in beautiful hand-drawn rotoscoping — aside from being a thoroughly engaging story, well acted and beautifully composed, is also acts as a perfect analogy for the pharmaceutical drug industry predicted full by Philip K Dick forty years ago.

★★★★✩

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