A Scanner Darkly - "They are watching me"
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2012
- 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 - Фільми й анімація
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
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 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.
Keanu Reeves can be a damn good actor when he wants to be.
+AleqsH Well, he's been around for centuries, so he's certainly had time to perfect his art.
it all comes to the scrpit. if it's good people will make a good effort
like breaking bad or any other great art
it's a collaboration towards perfection
Not A Doctor never seen one by him thats not amazing
He's a fantastic actor Rob Downey Jr is to the cast of this movie are perfect for and Winona Ryders boobies are great too
It's not about what he wants . It's about what roles are right. He was in perfect contrast with RDJ and Harrelson.
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.
PKD truly was prophetic because this is sort of what is happening today with all our data being exploited
I feel so sorry for Arctor in this scene.
Best monolog I've ever heard. The man should get more lines in his movies. If he has the opportunity to speak with an emotional background like here or the monolog in John Wick. He becomes a quite good actor.
Man check out “My Own Private Idaho.” Keanu and River Phoenix. Also about the streets and addiction. Doesn’t have the same level of monologues, (PKD was a genius) but if you wanna see Keanu act his ASS off, that’s a really phenomenally done, often overlooked classic.
@@RustinChole I saw MOPI back in 1991 in the movie theater. The film really had an impact on me, escpecially back then the theme of the film was out of the ordinary.
@@user-sx2gc2ns3r oh wow!!!! I was 11 in 1991 so I didn’t get the theater experience, but I bet it was amazing, also, cheers, it’s rare I come across someone who’s seen that film, let alone enjoyed it!🙏 have a good day.😊
Sometimes the less you have to say the better.
His dull normalcy is in perfect contrast with RDJs paranoia and Harrelson's goofiness. One of the best casted movies ever.
Severely underrated movie
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.
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 has been stuck in my mind since I saw it a truly great film
I know exactly how this guy is feeling.
And I wish i didnt
Look up gangstalking
How are you?
@@barryrussell1 don't
@@dusty203 why dont?
One of my favorite movies of all time. Also one of the few films that can make me physically cry. If you have ever been down this road, Either drug addict yourself or just experienced it firsthand, this is one of the most realistic and touching, next to Requiem for a Dream. Pure art.
Requiem was so over the top it seemed like it was made by the catholic church to warn people about drugs. A good one was Spun, being as I basically lost a sister to meth abuse (and god damn could she abuse the stuff) many scenes were just too real after what I went through the times I tried helping her. I've lost many people I knew to drugs, heroin, meth, even pot (nothing more boring than people obsessed with pot) and alcoholism. Can't forget the others who didn't take to their psych meds and killed themselves too. Scanner darkly his way too close to home for me..
@@dankwarmouse6248 There was plenty over the top, but too much of it, especially a few scenes toward the end, that were from experience. just the though of dealing with my sister and meeting her friends still makes me feel stressed out.
credits get me every fucking time
@@QuestionmarkTimes2 ugh those credits are brutal to watch
Im the one of dudes that wasnt So stupid to even start with drugs.
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.
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
Aamzing scene not to mention the background music!
Totally agree my friend
this monologue is fucking brilliant
One of the best scenes in any film ever!
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.
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.
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.
I love what he says.
Marry me
the construction of multiple paranoid narratives simultaneously and their collapse back into reality was perfectly conveyed in the book
It's unfortunate that this movie makes people kinda sea sick because it's a genuine statement on mankind. So much of this movie still rings true today; paranoia, corrupt marketing, and violence (or the threat of violence) by addicts driven to the brink of madness, not only because of their lifestyles but also because of the fear of an authority who should know better. Do not interpret this comment as a political or a religious or even a cultural statement. I've grown tired of opinions. All I can say is this; If humanity truly wanted to terminate itself, we would've done it centuries ago and suceeded. Yet, we are still here. If that does not mean that there is something good in us as a species or as a creation, I know not what does. As for comments, fire away.
Lucas Davis I read your comment in Keanu Reeves voice.
Jason Ha ha!
+Lucas Davis - Still rings true? It more true today then it ever has been and its going to get worse. Humanity doesn't want to terminate itself. It wants to rule over one another. Cell phones, GPS tracking, security cameras on every corner, cameras in every ones hand. Next all of those things will be planted in your body with an ID number at birth mandated by government. Yeah we have arrived at the very beginning of the surveillance state. The plus side to this is perhaps in a thousand years or so, things will be like star trek, were humans work together for the good of humanity where possessions and money are unnecessary and a thing of the past... And that last part is just to give us idealistic hope.
honestly the only reason why we still exist is because we're genetically programmed as fuckers. our genetic prime directive isn't to be happy but to keep fucking.
Our continued existence is actually quite bizarre when you really think about it.
Call me crazy, but this monologue is right up there with Macbeth's "tomorrow and tomorrow" to me.
The Best film. I Watch in 2006, SP - Brazil.
Underrated Flick , liked it a lot.
L'ho visto oggi! Questa è davvero la parte più bella del film in assoluto!! ;)
i wish real life could have this comic aesthetic
It's so weird that Alex Jones is in this movie
Ive felt this way so many times...
amazing scene
love this movie!
1:20 Ah! He said it!
The thesis to the plot.
"Unlike my little dark eyed Donna, it doesn't ever blink"
Best scene in the film
what a waste of a house, a family could live here, they ought ta confiscate it.
Actually, that is pretty scary
This movies is so unique
bella!!
"They ought to confiscate it and put it to better use". Yes story of my life atleast
This is the part we’re Philip is Mono logging about is own house and how much filthy it has become
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.
I agree mate!
My sentiments exactly.. :(
The music and rotoscope animation is what truly create unique atmosphere of this movie. Actually I'd say that this movie adaptation is better than book-original.
They did do a great job blurring reality through the visual technique they used for the movie, but the book made it even harder to realize what reality actually was imo. The way you could read what Arctor was experiencing while wondering how skewed that perspective really was made for a more ambiguous take on this version of the world. Not being able to discern Arctor's paranoid junkie fears and his genuine law enforcement know-how made the story that much more enjoyable for me, even if a "true" understanding of all events was impossible with the book. I guess I prefer the book's approach to the theme of reality being subjective, although this is still the best adaption I've seen of Dick's which I definitely want to watch again :)
Lindo💖💟
Anyone who knows about this movie yall amazing
this made me zone out, disassociate...
Very cool film but I wish I could take a look at a non-rotoscoped version of some of the scenes.
yeah .me too man
Lucy Foster, the wig on Woody harrelson looked out right silly in the unfinished version. You can see it for like 3 seconds in the special features of the DVD. I really want to see the driveway/"walking circles" fight unroto.
Theres a couple photos and behind the scenes stuff out there. But i heard almost all of the live action footage was overwritten when they rotoscoped it
werdle92 thats a shame, would love to see a special edition with the pre-roto version.
you'd see the post it notes with Robert Downey Jr.'s lines all over the walls. Which would be pretty cool, don't get me wrong
John Wick is that you?!
This is us right now 2020
Drugs ruin families and households.
RIP Sunshine cinema, L. E. S
deep asf
They are watching me.
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?
I watched this movie trippn balls on lsd. It was amazing
If you think this is trippy you should watch waking life, it's directed by the same guy.
Why waste an acid trip staying in and watching a movie.
Waste of trip mate get out in the woods. Or a wallpaper factory😂
How are you still alive?
So you didnt understand this movie, rip
I wish they'd release a version without the rotoscoping
Just another dazed and confused slacker. It may just be my imagination, Donna.
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)
What is this songs name and where can I get it
The dark world where i dwell
this is how normal tv looks like on mushrooms.
The first time I did mushrooms I ended up watching Adventure Land with some friends and the whole movie was blotches of random color with voices and music behind it. After the movie was over I said that the movie was just bleeding water color paint and voices and that it didn't make any sense. And everyone just looked at me.
"such a waste"...
it makes me dizzy
she looks like the apophatic phaneron
Good thing no HOA right lol
Go watch Waking Life
it was directed by the same person.
I just rented both of them for the library
Gangstalking..... look it up
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
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.
Very good anti prohibition film! You can see how a society that fully embraces drug prohibition is very communist like.
Hmmmm. English subtitles for a movie that's in English. Interesting.
Probably Asian focused
have you never heard of closed captioning...?
Love keanu man but this is depressing. I love the funny keanu. Bring him back
Reddit sent me here what the fuck is this