A Scanner Darkly

What does a Scanner see?

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Keanu
• Reeves
• Scanner
• Darkly

[Beatnuk]

Whatever it is that's watching It's not human It doesn't ever blink. What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly cause I can no longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better. Cause if the scanners sees only darkly like I do, then I'm cursed, and cursed again. I will only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too

[xerxerxex]

Reeves best performance, hands down!

[voidforpurpose]

Kafka's little story "Conversation with the Supplicant" captures this kaliedo-sense a century sooner.

K. Dick and Joseph K. were roto-blood brothers.

[TomishiHariSan]

@Vultrus The entire organisation know that Fred / Bob are the same person, they've basically picked him as a person to burn out on Substance D to the point that they can get him into a rehab programme. There's a few blue flowers references throughout the film, e.g. Donna mentions them at one point when they're high together. They're trying to constantly plant the idea in his subconscious and hope that when he gets into rehab that no matter how fried his mind is he will recall their importance.

[MichaelLeroi]

@Gforcebond same, it took me so long to notice

[Vultrus]

@joejohanssen I think that they knew that his mission was actually to infiltrate the drug facility and therefore if they had that level of clearance they also knew that Donna was a cop and were urging him to bring the blue flowers to the police.

[rdloop]

I know Bob Arctor, he's a good person...

[joejohanssen]

@Vultrus but did they not know who that girl was? Why would they tell him to give blue flowers to donna?

[Beatnuk]

@uzytkownik90

I felt like writing it to get a feel of the poetry, no point beyond that. How I've gotten so many thumbs up, I don't know. The Lord works in mysterious ways.