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1. • • "A Scanner Darkly" might serve as a dark mirror to "Waking Life." It's a bleak, cynical film about how there is no escape from addiction, and that a pervasive and indifferent police state only allows misery to perpetuate.
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   Is a Scanner Darkly a cynical movie?

   • At its most cynical, it's an examination of failures and the economy of self-destruction. At its brightest and most optimistic, the cartoons sure are pretty. The ending of Richard Linklater's sci-fi film A Scanner Darkly is pretty bleak. And the reality behind it wasn't exactly a feel-good story, either.

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   Is a Scanner Darkly based on a true story?

   • A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 American adult animated science fiction thriller film written and directed by Richard Linklater; it is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick.

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   Is a Scanner Darkly a good movie?

   • A Scanner Darkly, as both a motion picture and a novel, is considered to be Dick's most autobiographical work, an almost Gonzo journalistic approach to science fiction. At its most cynical, it's an examination of failures and the economy of self-destruction. At its brightest and most optimistic, the cartoons sure are pretty.

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   Is a Scanner Darkly a feel-good movie?

   • It's bleak. Then again, the reality behind it wasn't exactly a feel-good story, either. In the final moments of A Scanner Darkly, Bob Arctor ( Keanu Reeves) is brain-damaged to the point of near-catatonia, working on a farm at a rehabilitation facility that's also responsible for the production of Substance D.

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   Who adapted A Scanner Darkly?

   • In 2006, Richard Linklater adapted Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly for the screen. Ryan looks back at a funny and powerful animated film... Across a range of novels and short stories, written at a furious rate before his tragic death in 1982, Philip K Dick effectively created his own literary genre.

   Looking back at Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly

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   Who starred in A Scanner Darkly?

   • The film features performances by Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the executive producers. A Scanner Darkly had a limited release on July 7, 2006, and then a wider release later that month by Warner Independent Pictures.

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   Apr 3, 2021 · The ending of Richard Linklater's sci-fi film A Scanner Darkly is pretty bleak. And the reality behind it wasn't exactly a feel-good story, either.

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   I found A Scanner Darkly to be very interesting albeit not an uplifting story. I thought the visual effects were very well done and didn't distract me at all. It felt a little slow and heavy in lounge-conversation at times, but once the story got moving it was very compelling.

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   I just finished reading "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick and for some reason I am a little confused to the actual ending. Warning Spoilers Below! It is clear that Bob Arctor is completely fried at the end and the brain damage is very likely irreversible.

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   Oct 29, 2014 · A Scanner Darkly is so effective because it blends hallucination with reality. In its final moment, fiction reconnects with reality like a sledgehammer knocking down a brick wall.

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    A Scanner Darkly: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey Jr., Mitch Baker, Keanu Reeves. An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.