A Scanner Darkly (film)

A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 American adult animated science fiction thriller film 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 nearfuture dystopia constantly under intrusive hightechnology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic. The film was shot digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope, an animation technique in which animators trace over the original footage frame by frame, for use in liveaction and animated films, giving the finished result a distinctive animated look. It was distributed by Warner Independent Pictures and it was the first and only so far animated film released by Warner Independent Pictures.

The United States has lost the war on drugs. Substance D, a powerful and dangerous drug that causes bizarre hallucinations has swept the country. Approximatelyof the total population is addicted. In response, the government has developed an invasive, hightech surveillance system and a network of undercover officers and informants.Bob Arctor is one of these undercover agents, assigned to immerse himself in the drugs underworld and infiltrate the supply chain. Sometime in the past, Arctor was abandoned by his wife and two children, leaving him alone in a nowrundown suburban house in Anaheim, California the house has since been repopulated by Arctors two drugaddicted, layabout housemates Luckman and Barris. The three spend their days intoxicated and having long, paranoiac conversations. At the police station, Arctor maintains privacy by wearing a scramble suit that constantly changes every aspect of his appearance and he is known only by the code name Fred. Arctors senior officer, Hank, and all other undercover officers, also wear scramble suits, protecting their identities even from each other. ........

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