Culture from the darker side

Phillip K. Dick hasn’t really been lucky with movie adaption of his stories. The best so far must have ben Blade Runner, though it merely borrowed the general idea of the story, hence the change of the name to Blade Runner instead of “Do Androids dream of electric sheep?”.

The last adaptation “Paycheck” was just horrible to watch. Now with “A Scanner Darkly” Richard Linklater (of “Waking Life” fame) is giving it a shot and (mostly) succeeds.

The book and the movie are bizzare, what is reality? What is drug induced? In a way it is in the good old vain of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” just less funny and more “hardcore”. And of course there is a morality tale: How far can one go to take down the bad guy/

Rating: 4.5/5*

*Need to see it again, it has cult potential, much like “Waking Life”