PHILIP K. DICK DOCUMENTARY PART 8 OF 9

[BelatedCommiseration]

What Joan Simpson doesn;t understand is that Dicks novels before his 'revelation' were all building up to it. There was always this questioning as to the nature of reality. How can you priase such a way of thinking one minute and then condemn it when it goes off into the next logical step? To be honest, from the moment I saw the matrix I thought of Philip K. Dick. The Wachowskis tend to cite the Grant Morrison comic the invisibles a lot but the concept itself i very Dickian.

[tubgirl8000]

The bald lady is horrible. She stood out as judgmental d bag in the original video of the speech. Talk about missing the point. bhavaa ghita and it's message is crazy to her too though, I'm assuming.

[Ph0be]

Unfortunately deja vu is not a ripple in a computer animated world, deja vu is when your short term memory and long term memory analyze something at the exact same time

[vo0sto0]

8:25 she is so stupid...

[elcat9091]

why does she say the speech is so bad. she just talks about her reactions to it.

[gamesDAMNED]

The experience with his sister clearly traumatized PKD, and you can see his psychic attempts to repair this lost past in his relations with women. It's always striking how our lives and minds are shaped by early childhood. Also, PKD was crazy/brilliant (pick your favorite).

[JustinSage]

Listening to these "friends" of his makes me want to throw up. They never shared in his journey, so they flippantly come up with a reason for his delving into the unknown. What a bunch of flakes.

[LightBenderKev]

1 person not, a dickhead!

~outward change begins within~

[pliskinn0089]

he s creativity wasnt lost , for crist sake he invented matrix in en 70" , he was a genius.

[Stormtjakka]

Hugo weaving could play pkd...since were talking bout matrix all of the sudden. (Everyone knows they ripped the idea from sophia stewart but she surely was inspired by pkd^^)

[mahound9]

@YouTrustedUsHaHaHa I was about to say. The Matrix, deja vu happens when they change something. But clearly the Wachowskis were huge fans of PKD.

[tremah05]

What she failed to notice is that PKD was embarassed with A LOT of the novels he wrote during his "creative burst" of the 60s, feeling that he was writing the same novel over and over again. Sure, drugs and mental disorders had taken a toll on his brain by the late 70s, but Dick also had moved to something else. The infamous 77 speech was chaotic... but ahead of its time. Women don't understand shit about creation. Too risky. So they praise "reproduction" and imitation, especially in the arts.

[pipinfresh1]

what he said in that speech is revolutionary and more relevant today than ever, the bald woman dosn't know what she is talking about, i myself have thought this is how reality is for some time now just more on a collective consciousness level rather than that of a computer matrix level.

[RezoNecro]

does anyone see the orb at 5: 21!!!!!!WOW

[warmecanic]

Anyone some CAN -D?

Hell, no. Just give me my Chew Z!

[spacenoise5]

The dude predicted The Matrix

[fortehlulz9999]

Doris was a crazy, rotten bitch.

[squattethtoadoftruth]

"less than stable personalities..." HA HA!!

[NorthernStar50]

What's even more amazing is that this (bald) woman feels the same to this day. ..that "something really really spectacular has gone missing and wasn't there anymore."

[NorthernStar50]

I'm amazed that the (kind) crowd found his speech bad...PKD's speech was peculiarly contemporary.

[RIDDIMWORKS]

BALD WOMAN IS FULL OF SHIT

[EssiacHempLaetrile]

7:37 Joan Simpson

You Tube ... "Run From The Cure"

[cyphlon]

I LOVE HOW people in 1977 were rolling their eyes but TODAY we say OH MY GOD he was right! As quantum physics catches up to sci-fi and the average person is begging to understand. It is really truly amazing.

[TodKopfstein]

Yeah, Dan O'Bannon has worked on some movies that are very dear to me, but his work doesn't amount to a pile of monkey lips next to PKD. I say Darkstar was his crowning achievement, but, much like Alien and Dead and Buried and Total Recall, I would wager alot of that has to do with the directors involved (Carpenter, Scott, Sherman and Verhoeven respectively).

[officialcityoffire]

it seems like this woman was the only one in the audience making gas faces while he was talking. she just sounds like a ballbusting wench to me. And as for Dan O'Bannon saying that PKD lost his touch in his later works I strongly disagree. Valis has some of the most impressive ideas in all his work. The balancing act between divine intervention and psychosis reaches its apex here. And then the tragic end just sunk me. It was amazing.

[vespacurry]

I think he was trying to save his sister that died when he was very young.... compassion and an understanding that everything matters, till the point of over load.

[tonouno1]

What an jerk Jane is! How stupid!

[sinandacceleration]

i'm shocked his girlfriend who got a trip to French SF convention was embarassed & sadden by what i think is an awesome revelation of speculative thought or SF brainstrom. She couldn't understand & she sounds like she can't wait for the next episode of Survivor. Novels!! they were new...!!! haha

The screenplay wrier is ultra-wack also. screwballs!

[baruyero]

For the whole 1977 PKD speech just google "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others"



[Zardoz151]

4:40 where can i find the whole video?

[MindAnimator]

Phil had a tendency to get involved with less than stable friends, particularly the insecure one in the blue shirt with the cheesy hair do "quote" (minutes 1:56-3:09).

[ironshroom]

its a shame that his wife at the time thought his speech was a crock.

[PhantomPatriotZero]

It is a shame, but not surprising at all. Most women view men's intellectual pursuits as pointless because, to them, there is no higher purpose than starting a family; Procreation and the perpetuation of the species.

[PhantomPatriotZero]

She simply couldn't appreciate that he really felt he was on to something. Those neat little books he had written to that point were part of his search for absolute truth and meaning. He experienced what he considered a 'breakthrough'. Sorry he couldn't appease the masses with sci-fi pulp stories to their satisfaction any longer...

[Lovecraftsuniverse]

@PhantomPatriotZero You're so right, they have a very narrow perspective on life.

[evelutionofone]

what is that white circle that comes down to her left across the chair? that is strange anyone see that? @ 5:23

[romperwomb]

At 6:59 you can clearly see a pink beam of light.

[phemohilia]

The guy at 2:14 is a total waste, fuck him!!

[phemohilia]

@phemohilia I forgot to add that he's a total prick too....

[kafka27]

@phemohilia totally agree.. what a moron.

[TodKopfstein]

@phemohilia He's an asshole, granted. But You should hunt down a copy of Dr. Adder. It's one of the best sci fi books I ever read. Has to do with body mods, mutant chickens, tunnel dwellers and the coolest plastic surgeon ever. Really dry wit, pretty brutal and PKD is a character in it (as a radio DJ). Most of the rest of his work is pretty lame. Dr. Adder was written in the 70s but wasn't released i think til the early 80s, too ahead of its time. PKD loved it too.

[Ph0be]

@phemohilia Him and the therapist are assholes

[JesusMFingChrist]

It's like he thought the Matrix was true! Check out the Simulation Argument of Nick Bostrum--an oxford professor. It probably IS true!!!! Scary, scary stuff.

[FeelOfFriction]

@JesusMFingChrist

Look up Tamara Davis's hologram model.

[Cadmusproject]

holy shti he thought about the Matrix !!

[smithdream]

No THE MATRIX thought about him!

[draconismu]

the idea of the matrix goes back to greek myth- first woman pandora (all-gifts) and epimetheus (afterthought- or mind asleep). pandora was manufactured in the workshop of hephaistos the tinker god, and then programmed by each of the olympians

[OKandNOWwhat]

Something great was missing in her, but when she heard it, she did not recognize it, like an amnesiac with Alzheimer's. How sad for her. As a result of not recognizing the missing parts of her soul, she now has to literally lose parts of her body. But she still refuses to see.

People will accept it if you call it fiction, but they refuse it if you call it Truth---unless, of course, it's a bold-faced lie delivered by a talking head, politician or "expert".

[JonKiddthe3rd]

I disagree with her opinion on him. He was telling it as it is...keeping it simple as far as her could

[buckfushes]

yeah! reno 911!

[PaliGap1]

I would love to see PKD's Metz speech in its entirity - where can it be found on the net - I can't find it. Any help? Thanks

[KingDukas]

You can listen to an audio recording of PKD rehearsing the Metz speech at his official website.

[spacewookie]

The Matrix! The black cat /dejavu at 7:25

[baruyero]

yes, if you read the whole 1977 PKD speech (you can find it over the internet easily) it's easy to see where the Wachosky bros got their Matrix cosmogony from.

[Eldritchard]

If its all over the web please post a link. I think somebodys been around ripping them all down(the links) cos i cant find it fecking anywhere

[UnoRaza]

@baruyero Matrix was stolen.

[vendeta912]

@baruyero wow I was just going to post a comment about that. Is there anywhere on that net that the Wachowski bros. attribute some of their ideas to PKD? As soon as he said the words 'computer programed reality' immediately The Matrix flashed in my mind. And then he went on to describe, almost verbatum, what Trinity had as a 'glitch' in the Matrix. I cant help but think that he was onto something...

[baruyero]

@vendeta912 I dont dont know really if the Wachowski Bros acknowledge this or not. But of you reed the whole 1977 speach , you can see that the seed for the whole matrix cosmology was already there , that's for sure.

[pmcmanus420]

@baruyero They did. Of course, it was hard to miss the obvious influence of Philip K. Dick in the only good Matrix movie.

[pmcmanus420]

Of course, modern quantum physics has finally caught up with PDK... even though I do think he was crazy; brilliant, but crazy.

[james0apple]

@vendeta912

i dont know. but the wachowski's took most of their matrix ideas from the philosopher jean baudrillard. in fact in the first matrix there is a scene when morpheus shows neo a book that is hollowed out with a key hidden inside it. they asked baudrillard to help write the movie but he refused. he claimed after seeing it that "the matrix is a movie that the matrix would make about itself".

i'm sure they are at least aware of pkd.

[KillWill3]

As soon as I look down at the comments for the first time while watching the video, I read yours and realize that the video is at exactly 7:25. Odd.

[Duganoff09]

@KillWill3 O.k. That´s creepy me 2!!

[RezoNecro]

Does anyone see the orb @ 5:21!????WOW

[KDavis418]

@spacewookie : As well as a dark-haired girl showing up at his door. Remember "the white rabbit"?