@llamasarus1 Arctor was used from the start to get Barris. New Path is a huge corporation who use ex-addicts to cultivate the Substance D base flower, to get people intoxicated so they come to their company to keep business running. They work with a corrupted police by using fake cases like Arctor and eventually keep the population under control w/ drugs. K.Dick was a well-known anti-capitalist. He was paranoid but also REALLY chased by the FBI which suspected him to be a communist spy.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
This is one of those endings that stays with you for a while. You almost feel the need to ask others what THEY thought of it, however a lot of people haven't even given it a chance. I for one admit to this and I am SO sorry that I waited this long! lol. Caught it on I think Showtime Monday morning, the best film I have seen in a long time, animated or not. Keanu and RDJ were brilliant.
at the beggining of the movie, it is revealed that the active chemical in Substance D is harvested from the blue flower. Arctor knew this, and one of the charred brain cells flickered on re-giving him the info. He also knew from the guard that he would be get to see family and friends during the holidays.
@bastlake No one can claim to know what happens after life, and I'd suggest being skeptical of anyone who claims to have that kind of knowledge. I really want there to be a "second run" after I've had my way; the problem is that there is no rational reason to believe that when our lights go out we continue on in any way.
I don't want my time here on earth to end, but I have to also recognize that I have no reason to believe that when the breath of life is gone I continue on in any form.
When I first saw this, I felt that Arctor, while severely burnt out, still managed to process in his head that the flower = Substance D, and took one to give to the cops. The only indicator I have for this is that he says he "saw death rising from the earth."
However after reading some of these comments, I'm starting to realize... he never knew the position he was put into, and never knew he was going to be sacrificed to New Path.
So how did he know to take a flower? I'd like ppl's take on it
“The whole process is hidden under the surface of our reality. It will only be revealed later,and even then, the people of the future, our children's children will never truly know the awful time we've gone through...and the losses we took. Well, maybe some minor footnote in a minor history book. A brief mention with no list of the fallen.”
It took me about 5 times of watching this movie to truly understand what was happenning. Then all the little clues they were giving him, "Blue Flowers. Get them for her." "I want to live on a farm in the mountains." finally clicked with me. It wouldnt surprise me if this really does or will happen.
Thank you, THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. I was going ape shit kicking in my dvd player (it's broken now but the fucker deserved it) while clawing at the dvd (ruined, but the fucker deserved it MORE SO) for stopping right at this very spot. This is one of the most thoughtful movies I can remember sitting through; absolutely TITS! Scanners may see darkly, but I'm thankful I saw this till it's end.
I remember watching the film in an empty theater back in 2006, and rushed to Borders once it ended to pick up the book. Such an incredible ending. Keanu's scene in the field, it's so tragically hopeful.
The excerpt from Dick's afterword -- which scrolls at the end of the film -- was the very best part, but the full afterword is even better. Look it up online and perhaps you, too, will be moved to mourn friends who didn't survive.
"These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The ‘enemy’ was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy."
i rlly didnt get the ending... was that the drug death they were growing there? and whats it meant to mean >_>... maybe i dont understand cuz i basicly popped in and out of the movie didnt actually watch it all the way through but ide apreciate an explanation
@idrawbetterthanyouXD yes basically the police led by winona ryder got one of their men, keanu, addicted so they could get him into this major rehab clinic, which secretly is growing and selling hte drug, realizing this, keanu hides one of hte flowers, from which the drug substance d is manufactured "death", he plans to show it to his 'freinds' the police on thanksgiving, presumably when he is allowed visitation or osemthing
@asukauairudo ok thanks alot :P and im glad you werent some troll sxaying "GO WATCH THE MOVIE AND STOP ASKING QUESTIONS FAG" or something like that lol
the end of this movie is phenominal. so sad. it is right...there is no memorial wall or list of all the people lost from addiction. the scary part is that this is happening everyday. cameras on street corners, in liquor stores. people hooked and trapped. telling on one another to avoid getting arrested or killed...
sorry, i dont quite understand the ending (i saw this with my dad when i was like 12 and thought it was cool but i didnt follow it properly). could someone iterate?
@roopdaug i only read the book ages ago, he's more or less brain dead but he likes the pretty blue flowers and he takes one as a thanksgiving present for his friends. if i remember correctly his friends are cops so its implied theyll know where substance d is being produced now and blow the whole case wide open. you know, your on the internets you coulda looked this up yourself you lazy bastard
The book and the movie really make me hate self righteous people that love to sacrifice others yet never be a martyr themselves. I especially wish the CEO of newpath (and those IRL just like them) get what they deserve. But sadly with all the robots following octomom or the OC on TV we could never move on as a society. Thanks Philip K. Dick for showing us what it's like.
I have watched this movie so many times and have taken it in on so many different levels and meanings every time, the dialogue is like poetry, one of my favorite endings to one of my favorite movies, of one of my favorite pieces of literature, RIP PKD you truly understood the feelings of all those afraid, paranoid, and misunderstood.
@Cschwalen true that :) I'm studying this film for school, year 11, and i need a few tips, what is your interpretation of A Scanner Darkly? If you could reply with your opinion i would appreciate that, thanks :)
@iBecomingInsane Sadfully Philip K.Dick himself is underrated and often ripped off without credit. I won't say that Matrix is a ripoff of K.Dick but it's heavily influencd by him and many people think Matrix has all invented.
Also, it is sad that many cinema adaptations of K.Dick simply suck, and the ones who suck had a huge success while A scanner darkly, maybe the closest to K.Dick actual universe, is underrated. But it's normal. K.Dick is misunderstood and cursed, like many true geniuses.
the main story is that new path is able to grow the drug and rehabitate at the same time. the fact that a company could ever have an overwhelming power, is the terrifying dystopian image that is represented in a scanner darkly. drugs are in this context merely a representation of an economicaly non-elastic medium, one which binds philip k dick with his own demons.
Reminds me of the war on drugs. Just like the war on terrorism. Wars that are never meant to end, because terrorism will always exist, and drug use will always exist.
Not just that. In the movie the war on drugs is used to increase the governments power will this scene clearly shows that they are producing the drugs
and i don't know if it was said in the scene at the beginning of this vid or not, but arctor/bruce is likely just reflexing to steal the mors onotlogica. sure, he REMEMBERS all this information about growing drugs etc, but it's essentially like a little kid repeating a mother's goose poem. the book further stresses that he's still a vegetable because it prevents all of arctor's dialog as thought (i.e. he's still not really there, as his thinking is still simple and without layers).
guys, stop saying it's "the government". pharmaceutical companies =/= the government.
my perspective: it's getting at rehabilitation and the public's views on burnouts. bruce/arctor/fred is totally burned out, but when he sees the flowers, he sparks. this means he MIGHT have some hope to become a functional person, but still not likely. there isn't a cloaking device other than the corn itself which is used to hide the substance D flowers from outsiders.
I recently saw this on a chinese site: the last three minutes were cut in that version, changing the ending completely and seeming to show that there are no flowers in newpath, just corn.
This story's message is twofold: the prevalence of America's hard drug culture and the detrimental effect it's had on the populus and something far more sinister but made quite cryptic in this film: the unstoppable power of the pharmaceutical industry, their reach is far indeed. They spend more money on advertising than any other industry. Municipal water supplies are tainted with chemicals their facilities dumped into the ground water. They practically own your doctor, your psychiatrist, you.
He can see it hes just pretending he doesnt. Hes not imagining it this was the whole reason why he was there, to get a evidence that this corporation was selling the drugs + using all its victims as slave labor basically (the flower was the drug).
He's not pretending. At this point in the movie he's so fried out from taking Substance D that he barely knows whats going on, much less whats real. It's genuine confusion at the technology being used to cloak the flowers.
Lol there is no cloak. That was the point of the movie Keanu is suppose to "act" like a druggie then get in but he gets hooked, the reason why is cause no one could get in besides a burn out, that was the scheme the company would pretend to be a clinic taking in Substance D heads mean while they would they would not only sell it but also use its victims as slaves to make more and the burnt outs dont even realize it.
Either you have never actually watched the movie or you've forgotten everything that went down. Particularly the beginning of this clip. He's not acting, he's genuinely messed up. Rewatch the clip and pay attention to their conversation. Better yet, go back to the scenes when he's in rehab. Or when he shows up at the ranch.
Something flickered in Keanus head that made him remember why he was there, he fakes like there gonebut when the guy leaves he goes right back and picks one for his "friends" aka the cops when they see him in thanksgiving.
Also, in the book it's made very clear that Keanu's character is burnt out. Checkmate. He's not pretending. You are right about him "remembering" about the flowers and substance D, since he was being programmed to remember that during the investigation. They even say so in the conversation at the beginning of this scene.
I'm thinking there is some sort of cloaking device hiding them from sight, which is why no one has found them yet. The only way to see them is to be close to them. Of course, as proven by our tragic heros predicament the only people who would ever get a chance are too gone to realize what they're looking at. And the vegetable fields hide their watering and cultivating as "legitimate" farming, in much the way drugs are grown nowadays.
What is the meaning behind him working on that farm and picking the blue flower? I kind of thought that its some new drug they are making, maybe not though, hmmm. Anyone?
The blue flowers are the substance D. But he doesn't know it because the company is telling him it's not there. They use people that are on rehab for substance D to grow it so they don't know they're actually doing it. This movie is about how the government used people in a sick way to make money bascially.
Yeah i watched it again last night cos i wasnt paying complete attention the first time i watched it. I now understand it! Missed the point completely the first time though! :S
But the movie was to have the significance of what the government (or companies) did to hurt people in real life. But for the movie yeah it was New Path.
It means they're using addicts of the drug to actually make the drug, supposedly working under the guise of therapy to help their drug addiction...which wouldn't have existed in the first place if not for the government/whoever is growing it.
Philip K. Dick was trying to warn us of so much in his writing. While he did assume the worst of humans, he wasn't that far off. The scariest parts of anything he wrote was the notion that evil would be committed by those in power in the name of greed (rather than just for the sake of evil) and because of how interconnected all the money buckets of western society were, all it took was the ambition of one man to get an entire society to not only fuel his evil empire, but to be oblivious to it.
Great movie, and I think Winona Ryder is great in this scene.
What this movie says about addiction is important, but equally important is what it says about state repression. Phillip K. Dick and his friends were political radicals who were victimized by CoIntelPro. I think the scene where the man with the megaphone is whisked off by the cops highlights this: Whether you're a junkie or a dissident, the tactics the state uses against you are the same.
this story is so important and is really a warning that correlates with pharmacuticals today. why more people have not seen or acknowledged this movie baffles me. and for those who say reeves is a bad actor is a huge misjudgement. this is one of the best performances i have ever seen in film.
In the book its very clear that dealers are pushing substance d and spiking drinks and stuff. Also the police more than encourged Bob/Freds's addiction.
This is the type of movie that is very deep. The movie makers cram a lot of information into a small time frame, and picking up all of the information and connecting it together is hard to do by watching it once. This movie was best the fourth time i watched it, and it is still a very good movie to watch.
If anyone knows the type of instruments that are being played at the end, please respond to my comment.
one of the best ending I have yet to see in any hollywood movie. I love everyone acting, who said keanu reeve cannot express emotion! esp. the way he conveys his dialogue in the ending. A gift for my friends for thanksgiving. Once a while when I am feeling low I just listen to this dialogue.
It really is a heavy ending and a depressive view into drugs and i've seen quite a few about them and this one stood out the most.
It's kind of ironic too because a certain majority probably watched this on a drug. I would imagine it would be quite an impact for one who payed attention.
this whole movie is so deep but the ending is so powerful. those who dont get it, its understandable because this movie is confusing as hell but he takes the flower for "his friends" if you listen. he picks it to show the people that he loves because of a spark of rememberance. you have to note his tone when he talks. it proves that though something is so beautiful it can be so deadly that it kills wether people know it or not
I need to watch this movie again! I remember it being boring but intersting, other then that its a blur about drugs and an addict who is undercover-ish
boring and interesting are antonyms, but if you could explain how to be bored and interested at the same time I'd really like to know (maybe I'd be able to stay awake in class)
I love how he goes all poetic whenever he is in one of his saner moments. It ties in completely with the stuff they say earlier about D damaging the left side of the brain.
love this movie, wish they made a sequel or at least something to show closure to teh ending. does anyone know anthing about the references made at the end of the film about philip k dicks comrades?
Yes, this is text from the epilogue of the actual book. These are friends and acquaintances of PKD's who all suffered the consequences of drug use in a time when those consequences were not as well-known as they are now.
I don't see why everyone assumes this is hope for a happy ending. I certainly see it as ambiguous. He's going to see the other addicts at New Path at thanksgiving. Couldn't he be giving it to them, as Substance D to be taken, or even simply as a flower.
The two people in the diner mentioned that he may or may not recover from his brain damage while in the plant. In his job he was used as the guinea pig,To test the drug.
While in the plant he acts ignorant and obedient to the manager, picks up the flower, it seems that he might not be totally brain dead, and this responds almost directly to the conversation in the diner. They presumed he will recover from his condition, and return the evidence to them (his friends) whom he worked with.
he will gift the flower to his resident friends (he didnt mention donna or anyone he worked with), but not because he was aware they would use it as evidence against new path. how could some other brain dead addicts press charges? he does say that he sees death rising from the living ground itself, which implies that he is not entirely unaware of what the flower represents.
I'm not really sure Wikipedia is the most reliable source especially regarding something that is ultimately interpretive. Even if Phillip K Dick meant for people to assume that Arctor would bring New Path to justice, a reading to the contrary may be just valuable as the intended meaning.
Good point, but why would Arctor give the flower to his fellow druggies in the facility, given an implication by his gradual recollection of his memory of the "death" flower Substance D, instead of the friends he had worked with in the "office" he remembers working at before being sent to the fields.
He probably realizes that Donna is an undercover officer. if you listen to what she's subtily telling him when she drops him off at the clinic. He figures out why he is there, to gather evidence.
well i originally thought he took the blue flower for himself, and that they would never find the evidence that new path or something was behind it, then i read wiki and thought i was wrong but your right i dont think there is enough evidence to prove theres only one way to interpret unless prove me wrong and there was something i missed :)
Have you even seen the movie or are you just bullshitting. The movie and book are pretty much straight forward with its plot. No twist except that New Path is growing the drug. Your theory is completely wrong. Not to be a dick or anything.
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TheoneParky 1 year ago
One of the saddest movies I've seen
TheElijahGarcia 1 year ago
sombody explain the ending to me in words. how was arcter used as an instrument?
llamasarus1 1 year ago
@llamasarus1 he was used in fake case, so he could be addicted do Substance D and then went to The New Way
drudkhead 1 year ago
@llamasarus1 Arctor was used from the start to get Barris. New Path is a huge corporation who use ex-addicts to cultivate the Substance D base flower, to get people intoxicated so they come to their company to keep business running. They work with a corrupted police by using fake cases like Arctor and eventually keep the population under control w/ drugs. K.Dick was a well-known anti-capitalist. He was paranoid but also REALLY chased by the FBI which suspected him to be a communist spy.
Knr911 1 year ago
this movie freaking shows you how the freaking illuminati runs this bizzarre world....scary huh?
gogelgogelgogel 1 year ago
The Phil in the list who suffered permanent pancreatic damge is Philip Dick himself
breeeegs 1 year ago
Sorry vascular not pancreatic
breeeegs 1 year ago
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
ririmja 1 year ago
This is one of those endings that stays with you for a while. You almost feel the need to ask others what THEY thought of it, however a lot of people haven't even given it a chance. I for one admit to this and I am SO sorry that I waited this long! lol. Caught it on I think Showtime Monday morning, the best film I have seen in a long time, animated or not. Keanu and RDJ were brilliant.
go0fy11137 1 year ago
The best adaptation from a Dick's book, such a underated masterpiece
mob314 1 year ago
This is such an underrated movie
BSG24fan 1 year ago
sucha fucked up ending dude. get's me everytime.
rubythedestroyer 1 year ago
Allegory for consumerism in America?
Great story.
teamtntn 1 year ago
wynona ryder was gorgeous in this scene!
Slyptid 1 year ago
"Let them play again,
In some other way,
And let them be happy."
Mazryonh 1 year ago
I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field. A present for my friends, at thanksgiving.
Pure poetry. One of the best movie endings ever.
K.C.
killercroc89 1 year ago
Excerpts of this movie are often better then the movie itself. The're like mini-movies, or... Visual short-stories. As PKD often wrote himself.
zimonslot 1 year ago
god that actress's voice is annoying.
Erilis666 1 year ago
the first time i saw this movie i dropped 3 hits of acid. it was an experience i will never forget
IvanTheNazi 1 year ago
at the beggining of the movie, it is revealed that the active chemical in Substance D is harvested from the blue flower. Arctor knew this, and one of the charred brain cells flickered on re-giving him the info. He also knew from the guard that he would be get to see family and friends during the holidays.
totalphotography 1 year ago
Must have been a pain in the fucking nuts to rotoscope every single frame
ba3cool 1 year ago
why do they make the movie like a comic?
jimisajewboy 1 year ago
I don't know what comes after this life, but I hope I get to play again.
bastlake 1 year ago
@bastlake No one can claim to know what happens after life, and I'd suggest being skeptical of anyone who claims to have that kind of knowledge. I really want there to be a "second run" after I've had my way; the problem is that there is no rational reason to believe that when our lights go out we continue on in any way.
I don't want my time here on earth to end, but I have to also recognize that I have no reason to believe that when the breath of life is gone I continue on in any form.
AnAmericanApologist 1 year ago
When I first saw this, I felt that Arctor, while severely burnt out, still managed to process in his head that the flower = Substance D, and took one to give to the cops. The only indicator I have for this is that he says he "saw death rising from the earth."
However after reading some of these comments, I'm starting to realize... he never knew the position he was put into, and never knew he was going to be sacrificed to New Path.
So how did he know to take a flower? I'd like ppl's take on it
TubeZoogy 1 year ago
@TubeZoogy well one of the doctors suggested he should take nice blue flowers for his friend. I think it was twice, so maybe it was NLP?
maybe
evilponger 1 year ago
one of the saddest films ive seen
TheSkateShack 1 year ago 2
I meant this whole part:
“The whole process is hidden under the surface of our reality. It will only be revealed later,and even then, the people of the future, our children's children will never truly know the awful time we've gone through...and the losses we took. Well, maybe some minor footnote in a minor history book. A brief mention with no list of the fallen.”
SpaceMonkey1983 1 year ago
I really like the guy's speech onward from 1:54.
SpaceMonkey1983 1 year ago
i saw the trailer for this in class,i never thought a movie made by rotoscope could be so incredible,so unique <3
MissMurder1243 1 year ago
dont watch this stoned on a really hot day
lukether123 1 year ago
Shit, I miss PKD...;;;~!@#$%^&*
Kiyaki777 1 year ago
It took me about 5 times of watching this movie to truly understand what was happenning. Then all the little clues they were giving him, "Blue Flowers. Get them for her." "I want to live on a farm in the mountains." finally clicked with me. It wouldnt surprise me if this really does or will happen.
totalphotography 1 year ago
@totalphotography it took you 5 times to get all that? lol
pnut3844 1 year ago
@pnut3844 I was high.
totalphotography 1 year ago
Oh I finally get this scene.
He is just sane enough to realize that... his present for his friends is death.
Fruscianteistheman 1 year ago
i saw death rising from the ground.
spacenoise5 1 year ago
I know this was rotoscoped, but I want to draw like that.
MrEVILoLAZOR 1 year ago
Why is it that the so called "underappreciated movies" are best? THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING!
MrEVILoLAZOR 1 year ago
Thank you, THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. I was going ape shit kicking in my dvd player (it's broken now but the fucker deserved it) while clawing at the dvd (ruined, but the fucker deserved it MORE SO) for stopping right at this very spot. This is one of the most thoughtful movies I can remember sitting through; absolutely TITS! Scanners may see darkly, but I'm thankful I saw this till it's end.
bubs0000 1 year ago
wow.. "i saw death riseing from the earth from the ground it self
jessica56786789 1 year ago
This is one of Keanu's greatest movies next to The Matrix, and Street Kings.
dasdasist 1 year ago
I remember watching the film in an empty theater back in 2006, and rushed to Borders once it ended to pick up the book. Such an incredible ending. Keanu's scene in the field, it's so tragically hopeful.
bakbak5 1 year ago
PKD would've been an awesome hollywood screenwriter if he were alive today.
Guernicaman 1 year ago
One of the best and finest adaptation of a PKD novel to the big screen, truly loaded of a profound message. I recommend reading the novel too.
maujo2009 1 year ago
fuckin illuminati movies.....fuck the goverment......fuck averywhere
makavelipayze 1 year ago
i watched this movie in 720p quality(HD), its frikkin brilliant man, brilliant.
Hrko1992 1 year ago
What most people don't realize is that this movie is based on a true story.
meak911 1 year ago
minblowing, just mindblowing
Hrko1992 1 year ago
@meak911 no it wasn't. just inspired.
brdrhppr 1 year ago
The excerpt from Dick's afterword -- which scrolls at the end of the film -- was the very best part, but the full afterword is even better. Look it up online and perhaps you, too, will be moved to mourn friends who didn't survive.
"These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The ‘enemy’ was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy."
Fremglerk 1 year ago
Loved the movie, love Philip K. Dick. This was one of the better interpretations of his remarkable work. I think he would be proud.
telemov 1 year ago
i rlly didnt get the ending... was that the drug death they were growing there? and whats it meant to mean >_>... maybe i dont understand cuz i basicly popped in and out of the movie didnt actually watch it all the way through but ide apreciate an explanation
idrawbetterthanyouXD 1 year ago
@idrawbetterthanyouXD yes basically the police led by winona ryder got one of their men, keanu, addicted so they could get him into this major rehab clinic, which secretly is growing and selling hte drug, realizing this, keanu hides one of hte flowers, from which the drug substance d is manufactured "death", he plans to show it to his 'freinds' the police on thanksgiving, presumably when he is allowed visitation or osemthing
asukauairudo 1 year ago
@asukauairudo ok thanks alot :P and im glad you werent some troll sxaying "GO WATCH THE MOVIE AND STOP ASKING QUESTIONS FAG" or something like that lol
idrawbetterthanyouXD 1 year ago
@asukauairudo nice
jessica56786789 1 year ago
"i saw death rising from the earth from the ground itself in one blue field... a present to my friends at thanksgiving"
rapidspit 1 year ago 4
@rapidspit that really did put a tear to my eye when i did first see this movie.
Forkliftdance 1 year ago
I LOVE the orchestral music at the end. All of the music in this movie makes is so much better than it already is.
jjp009 1 year ago
the best movie
Edelbroy 1 year ago
hows come he didnt see them at 3:40? was it something to do with standing up at the time and being permafried
bigwrench01 1 year ago
the end of this movie is phenominal. so sad. it is right...there is no memorial wall or list of all the people lost from addiction. the scary part is that this is happening everyday. cameras on street corners, in liquor stores. people hooked and trapped. telling on one another to avoid getting arrested or killed...
timothymstern 1 year ago
sorry, i dont quite understand the ending (i saw this with my dad when i was like 12 and thought it was cool but i didnt follow it properly). could someone iterate?
roopdaug 1 year ago
@roopdaug i only read the book ages ago, he's more or less brain dead but he likes the pretty blue flowers and he takes one as a thanksgiving present for his friends. if i remember correctly his friends are cops so its implied theyll know where substance d is being produced now and blow the whole case wide open. you know, your on the internets you coulda looked this up yourself you lazy bastard
RorySinn 1 year ago
@AlchemicGnosis
Corporatism is certainly one of the aspects of Fascism.
mesmeriffic 1 year ago
I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field.
rapidspit 1 year ago
i would take my gun and shoot in his fucking god-damn face and splatter his brain all over the floor. i HATE those guys.
Massakah666 1 year ago
The book and the movie really make me hate self righteous people that love to sacrifice others yet never be a martyr themselves. I especially wish the CEO of newpath (and those IRL just like them) get what they deserve. But sadly with all the robots following octomom or the OC on TV we could never move on as a society. Thanks Philip K. Dick for showing us what it's like.
neomisterp 1 year ago 4
the amazing story in the movie is the one of paranoia+our society
things like this happen, look at how war makes a country welthy, or computercompanies who make virussen of their own
Vlinderkindje 1 year ago
those little blue flowers look like forget-me-not flowers
TheAmber33 1 year ago
Simon Danis m'a montré ca et y lit cque j'écris!!! ALLLLO
Olivierbrault 2 years ago
This film is a clever reflection of the our reality right now.
Fight4Privacy 2 years ago
I saw death rising from the earth,
from the ground itself,
in one blue field.
0Apothecaries0 2 years ago 3
beautiful albeit very short piece of music at the end
yellowcakeur 2 years ago
I have watched this movie so many times and have taken it in on so many different levels and meanings every time, the dialogue is like poetry, one of my favorite endings to one of my favorite movies, of one of my favorite pieces of literature, RIP PKD you truly understood the feelings of all those afraid, paranoid, and misunderstood.
Cschwalen 2 years ago 20
@Cschwalen true that :) I'm studying this film for school, year 11, and i need a few tips, what is your interpretation of A Scanner Darkly? If you could reply with your opinion i would appreciate that, thanks :)
Dobbysezhi 1 year ago
@Cschwalen
True! Every time i watch a scanner darkly i always pick out a new concept or moral. I do not understand why this film is so under-rated
iBecomingInsane 1 year ago
@iBecomingInsane Sadfully Philip K.Dick himself is underrated and often ripped off without credit. I won't say that Matrix is a ripoff of K.Dick but it's heavily influencd by him and many people think Matrix has all invented.
Also, it is sad that many cinema adaptations of K.Dick simply suck, and the ones who suck had a huge success while A scanner darkly, maybe the closest to K.Dick actual universe, is underrated. But it's normal. K.Dick is misunderstood and cursed, like many true geniuses.
Knr911 1 year ago
this movie isn't about drugs... it's about capitalism.
Pumpk1npumpk1n 2 years ago 6
@Pumpk1npumpk1n in the book's intro PKD says the book is about drug addiction. Even if it serves as a metaphor on some level for capitalism.
MagicTGman 2 years ago
@Pumpk1npumpk1n You can't just make sweeping statements about things that you have no knowledge of, explain to me how it is about capitalism.
2gentrs 2 years ago
the main story is that new path is able to grow the drug and rehabitate at the same time. the fact that a company could ever have an overwhelming power, is the terrifying dystopian image that is represented in a scanner darkly. drugs are in this context merely a representation of an economicaly non-elastic medium, one which binds philip k dick with his own demons.
Pumpk1npumpk1n 2 years ago 2
Phillip K Dick, you knew it all.
PutItTogether2012 2 years ago 14
Reminds me of the war on drugs. Just like the war on terrorism. Wars that are never meant to end, because terrorism will always exist, and drug use will always exist.
yawnhockel 2 years ago 3
@yawnhockel
Not just that. In the movie the war on drugs is used to increase the governments power will this scene clearly shows that they are producing the drugs
Terrorkarel 2 years ago
Gee, you mean movies are mentally conditioning us to accept future political agendas? Huh. That's weird. Well, I guess I'll go pop some popcorn, now.
yawnhockel 2 years ago
this film must be seen by all
Curien247 2 years ago 6
and i don't know if it was said in the scene at the beginning of this vid or not, but arctor/bruce is likely just reflexing to steal the mors onotlogica. sure, he REMEMBERS all this information about growing drugs etc, but it's essentially like a little kid repeating a mother's goose poem. the book further stresses that he's still a vegetable because it prevents all of arctor's dialog as thought (i.e. he's still not really there, as his thinking is still simple and without layers).
Shichikokoyama 2 years ago 2
guys, stop saying it's "the government". pharmaceutical companies =/= the government.
my perspective: it's getting at rehabilitation and the public's views on burnouts. bruce/arctor/fred is totally burned out, but when he sees the flowers, he sparks. this means he MIGHT have some hope to become a functional person, but still not likely. there isn't a cloaking device other than the corn itself which is used to hide the substance D flowers from outsiders.
Shichikokoyama 2 years ago
Drug companies control government policy over pharmaceuticals. So for all intents and purposes pharmaceutical companies = government.
mesmeriffic 2 years ago 5
so by controlling one aspect of a whole I thereby control everything, nice logic. :)
yellowcakeur 2 years ago
there is no such thing
jungleman68 1 year ago
I recently saw this on a chinese site: the last three minutes were cut in that version, changing the ending completely and seeming to show that there are no flowers in newpath, just corn.
Jack2ndkey 2 years ago
This story's message is twofold: the prevalence of America's hard drug culture and the detrimental effect it's had on the populus and something far more sinister but made quite cryptic in this film: the unstoppable power of the pharmaceutical industry, their reach is far indeed. They spend more money on advertising than any other industry. Municipal water supplies are tainted with chemicals their facilities dumped into the ground water. They practically own your doctor, your psychiatrist, you.
balinhansen 2 years ago 5
the pharmaceutical chemicals in the water system also comes from human urine, since water/sewage treatment plants can't filter them out.
Intranetusa 2 years ago
MK Ultra is quite interesting
ILLER121 2 years ago 2
we didn't get to see winona's tits!! ;-(
fuckedupsickfuckboy 2 years ago 2
I don't understand, why can't he see the flower at 3:33 when he says the flower is gone? Is he only imagining things?
dAvrilthebear 2 years ago
He can see it hes just pretending he doesnt. Hes not imagining it this was the whole reason why he was there, to get a evidence that this corporation was selling the drugs + using all its victims as slave labor basically (the flower was the drug).
M3TubeChannel 2 years ago
He's not pretending. At this point in the movie he's so fried out from taking Substance D that he barely knows whats going on, much less whats real. It's genuine confusion at the technology being used to cloak the flowers.
SyntheNeko 2 years ago 3
Lol there is no cloak. That was the point of the movie Keanu is suppose to "act" like a druggie then get in but he gets hooked, the reason why is cause no one could get in besides a burn out, that was the scheme the company would pretend to be a clinic taking in Substance D heads mean while they would they would not only sell it but also use its victims as slaves to make more and the burnt outs dont even realize it.
M3TubeChannel 2 years ago
Either you have never actually watched the movie or you've forgotten everything that went down. Particularly the beginning of this clip. He's not acting, he's genuinely messed up. Rewatch the clip and pay attention to their conversation. Better yet, go back to the scenes when he's in rehab. Or when he shows up at the ranch.
SyntheNeko 2 years ago 2
Something flickered in Keanus head that made him remember why he was there, he fakes like there gonebut when the guy leaves he goes right back and picks one for his "friends" aka the cops when they see him in thanksgiving.
M3TubeChannel 2 years ago
Also, in the book it's made very clear that Keanu's character is burnt out. Checkmate. He's not pretending. You are right about him "remembering" about the flowers and substance D, since he was being programmed to remember that during the investigation. They even say so in the conversation at the beginning of this scene.
SyntheNeko 2 years ago 2
I'm thinking there is some sort of cloaking device hiding them from sight, which is why no one has found them yet. The only way to see them is to be close to them. Of course, as proven by our tragic heros predicament the only people who would ever get a chance are too gone to realize what they're looking at. And the vegetable fields hide their watering and cultivating as "legitimate" farming, in much the way drugs are grown nowadays.
SyntheNeko 2 years ago
a tragically hopeful ending. this movie is awesome.
Curien247 2 years ago 5
A present for my friends at Thanksgiving....
hero121385 2 years ago 2
fucking great movie
its a shame that people take zeitgeist more seriously than this
zeitgeist makes yet more braindead followers
phil dick conditioned people to question eveything.
thats what we should be doing
questioning everything
only the willing are repressed.
HudsonAO8TQ1 2 years ago 20
Exactly, nice comment.
Maximusmadrica 2 years ago
@HudsonAO8TQ1 and only they are happy, their lack of understanding or their lack of drive to question the seedy bastards that they've ellected.
in doing so their opinions are shaped to go with out comprehension
or lack the drive to want to know where their orders come from.
halfbreed1426 1 year ago
@HudsonAO8TQ1 None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
mordsith05 1 year ago
@HudsonAO8TQ1 Now why should I question everything?
Wuhzman 1 year ago
What is the meaning behind him working on that farm and picking the blue flower? I kind of thought that its some new drug they are making, maybe not though, hmmm. Anyone?
bingo113 2 years ago
cuz the substance D ends up being made by the rehab clinic from those flowers
MATTCHEWONYOU411 2 years ago
The blue flowers are the substance D. But he doesn't know it because the company is telling him it's not there. They use people that are on rehab for substance D to grow it so they don't know they're actually doing it. This movie is about how the government used people in a sick way to make money bascially.
TimTehDrummer 2 years ago 2
Yeah i watched it again last night cos i wasnt paying complete attention the first time i watched it. I now understand it! Missed the point completely the first time though! :S
bingo113 2 years ago
It's hard to pay attention to the movie cause the vectorized cartoon effect they put on it is hypnotizing lol
TimTehDrummer 2 years ago 3
Not the government, but the "New Path" company are the really bad guys.
PG19871230 2 years ago
But the movie was to have the significance of what the government (or companies) did to hurt people in real life. But for the movie yeah it was New Path.
TimTehDrummer 2 years ago 2
It means they're using addicts of the drug to actually make the drug, supposedly working under the guise of therapy to help their drug addiction...which wouldn't have existed in the first place if not for the government/whoever is growing it.
Icix1 2 years ago
It's really hard to explain. You should Wiki it, there's good information behind it.
Maximusmadrica 2 years ago
Philip K. Dick was trying to warn us of so much in his writing. While he did assume the worst of humans, he wasn't that far off. The scariest parts of anything he wrote was the notion that evil would be committed by those in power in the name of greed (rather than just for the sake of evil) and because of how interconnected all the money buckets of western society were, all it took was the ambition of one man to get an entire society to not only fuel his evil empire, but to be oblivious to it.
doomsday19821982 2 years ago 2
they filmed the first part of this clip at the culver's on william cannon in austin texas.
doomsday19821982 2 years ago
THE REASON FOR THE ANIMATION
The director said in animation,things turn out to be real and fake. In the life of drugs,you will have trouble finding what is truly real or not.
XPowerToThePeopleX 2 years ago 3
Great movie, and I think Winona Ryder is great in this scene.
What this movie says about addiction is important, but equally important is what it says about state repression. Phillip K. Dick and his friends were political radicals who were victimized by CoIntelPro. I think the scene where the man with the megaphone is whisked off by the cops highlights this: Whether you're a junkie or a dissident, the tactics the state uses against you are the same.
dkdkssks 2 years ago
this story is so important and is really a warning that correlates with pharmacuticals today. why more people have not seen or acknowledged this movie baffles me. and for those who say reeves is a bad actor is a huge misjudgement. this is one of the best performances i have ever seen in film.
patrickj25 2 years ago 4
that quote will stick with me forever
"i saw death riseing from the earth, from the ground its self, all in one blue feild"
btw does anyone think the suit in the end sounds a bit like clinton??
yamimatsuy 2 years ago
kinda looks like him at first.
doomsday19821982 2 years ago
This is honestly one of the greatest films I've ever seen. It's up in my top 5 for sure.
What I notice about this movie is you either don't understand it or you love it.
WickedLiquid 2 years ago 29
@WickedLiquid or both
UnagiMonk 1 year ago
@WickedLiquid I completley understand it but i still didnt like it
MarioBrosClassic 1 year ago
yea I love this film
derqual 2 years ago
Creepy.
timothy666 2 years ago
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Oh yes, I remember this movie now. Let's feel bad for the folks that got themselves addicted .
ZzeusSU 2 years ago
In the book its very clear that dealers are pushing substance d and spiking drinks and stuff. Also the police more than encourged Bob/Freds's addiction.
doodly19 2 years ago
" A present for my friends....
at Thanksgiving"
good ending to an awesome movie,
would've paid to see the goverment break up that grow-op!!
Curien247 2 years ago
This is the type of movie that is very deep. The movie makers cram a lot of information into a small time frame, and picking up all of the information and connecting it together is hard to do by watching it once. This movie was best the fourth time i watched it, and it is still a very good movie to watch.
If anyone knows the type of instruments that are being played at the end, please respond to my comment.
Nitsudrd 2 years ago
one of the best ending I have yet to see in any hollywood movie. I love everyone acting, who said keanu reeve cannot express emotion! esp. the way he conveys his dialogue in the ending. A gift for my friends for thanksgiving. Once a while when I am feeling low I just listen to this dialogue.
batosato 2 years ago
Scanners
SgtBanks1 2 years ago
some scary shit
GangsterKiller01 2 years ago
It really is a heavy ending and a depressive view into drugs and i've seen quite a few about them and this one stood out the most.
It's kind of ironic too because a certain majority probably watched this on a drug. I would imagine it would be quite an impact for one who payed attention.
Zachariavoo 2 years ago 5
this whole movie is so deep but the ending is so powerful. those who dont get it, its understandable because this movie is confusing as hell but he takes the flower for "his friends" if you listen. he picks it to show the people that he loves because of a spark of rememberance. you have to note his tone when he talks. it proves that though something is so beautiful it can be so deadly that it kills wether people know it or not
thedrunkenirishsaint 2 years ago
Doesn't he means also "I got the fucking evidence?".
das81 2 years ago 2
(What a retard would say) "Thanks for spoiling it you bastard!" lol good ending
1moe7 2 years ago
This movie is fucking amazing.
therobanata 2 years ago 5
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It was boring 2u cuz u weren't stoned on WEED!
HarryPalma 2 years ago
There is so much wrong with this statement in this clip that I can't even begin to say anything.
Otherwise, the movie was pretty good - nowhere near as good as the book, but still.
megamanx300049 2 years ago
I need to watch this movie again! I remember it being boring but intersting, other then that its a blur about drugs and an addict who is undercover-ish
JOCrazee 2 years ago
Ya you really have to watch it and get into it to really appreciate the story. When you do though, it is truly amazing.
therobanata 2 years ago
boring and interesting are antonyms, but if you could explain how to be bored and interested at the same time I'd really like to know (maybe I'd be able to stay awake in class)
CosChrono 2 years ago
A depressing movie.
TeinCave 2 years ago 6
I love how he goes all poetic whenever he is in one of his saner moments. It ties in completely with the stuff they say earlier about D damaging the left side of the brain.
Whiskyjack444444 2 years ago
Alex jones (cameo) was right: where does substance D come from!!??
CAinfowarrior 2 years ago
love this movie, wish they made a sequel or at least something to show closure to teh ending. does anyone know anthing about the references made at the end of the film about philip k dicks comrades?
makeaveli89 2 years ago
Yes, this is text from the epilogue of the actual book. These are friends and acquaintances of PKD's who all suffered the consequences of drug use in a time when those consequences were not as well-known as they are now.
BigOldCar 2 years ago 2
thanx
makeaveli89 2 years ago
and on that list, "Phil" is PKD himself
DeanMcLean 2 years ago 2
"the enemy was their mistake in playing"
Tidnull 2 years ago
this part in the movie always almost makes me cry :/
baddspella 2 years ago 5
same
MichaelLeroi 2 years ago
when he places the flower in his boot...that's the evidence needed to press charges on new-start right? assuming he gives it to his "friends"...
kamajutsu 2 years ago
That does make sense. He can use the flower ingredient to boycott them.
Y0utubeIsMistagged 2 years ago
I don't see why everyone assumes this is hope for a happy ending. I certainly see it as ambiguous. He's going to see the other addicts at New Path at thanksgiving. Couldn't he be giving it to them, as Substance D to be taken, or even simply as a flower.
rub101 2 years ago
Good.
The two people in the diner mentioned that he may or may not recover from his brain damage while in the plant. In his job he was used as the guinea pig,To test the drug.
While in the plant he acts ignorant and obedient to the manager, picks up the flower, it seems that he might not be totally brain dead, and this responds almost directly to the conversation in the diner. They presumed he will recover from his condition, and return the evidence to them (his friends) whom he worked with.
Y0utubeIsMistagged 2 years ago
he will gift the flower to his resident friends (he didnt mention donna or anyone he worked with), but not because he was aware they would use it as evidence against new path. how could some other brain dead addicts press charges? he does say that he sees death rising from the living ground itself, which implies that he is not entirely unaware of what the flower represents.
Tidnull 2 years ago
Look up "A Scanner Darkly" on Wikipedia, and it will confirm that he is clearly giving it as evidence to the undercover police.
Y0utubeIsMistagged 2 years ago
I'm not really sure Wikipedia is the most reliable source especially regarding something that is ultimately interpretive. Even if Phillip K Dick meant for people to assume that Arctor would bring New Path to justice, a reading to the contrary may be just valuable as the intended meaning.
rub101 2 years ago
Good point, but why would Arctor give the flower to his fellow druggies in the facility, given an implication by his gradual recollection of his memory of the "death" flower Substance D, instead of the friends he had worked with in the "office" he remembers working at before being sent to the fields.
I'm open to any explanation.
Y0utubeIsMistagged 2 years ago
He probably realizes that Donna is an undercover officer. if you listen to what she's subtily telling him when she drops him off at the clinic. He figures out why he is there, to gather evidence.
coolguy98 2 years ago
yeah that does explain it a lot more, I didn't notice that until you told me. Thank you
Y0utubeIsMistagged 2 years ago
well i originally thought he took the blue flower for himself, and that they would never find the evidence that new path or something was behind it, then i read wiki and thought i was wrong but your right i dont think there is enough evidence to prove theres only one way to interpret unless prove me wrong and there was something i missed :)
bigwrench01 2 years ago
Yeah, I agree. I doubt PKD would want a "happy" ending to this tale.
milkphobic 2 years ago
That is correct. He is using the flower as evidence to give to his friends(the undercover cops) on thanksgiving.
FirstSnowJ 2 years ago
i have some theories to this movie
that the men living together used to be high school buddies and end up working with the government + discovering illegal drugs.
then the [lead actor[, guy ends up a slave to the drugs.
and that lady with the pony tail is his[lead actor] daughter somehow and that guy thats talking to his daughter is one of their high school buddies.
any one else have any theories ?
great moviebtw.
cruelcassandra 3 years ago
Have you even seen the movie or are you just bullshitting. The movie and book are pretty much straight forward with its plot. No twist except that New Path is growing the drug. Your theory is completely wrong. Not to be a dick or anything.
JoshBHC 3 years ago 2