A Scanner Darkly

Not sure how I really feel about this film… well I guess ambivalent is how I feel. Not bad, not great, not boring, not interesting. The animation form of the film definitely works considering one needed a sense of reality and the ability to produce hallucinations but it lacked an impact for me. Cronenberg in Naked Lunch pulled off the reality/hallucination scenario very well with real actors and lots of goo. The performances in Scanner are interesting especially Robert Downey Jr. Don’t know the source material so have no gripe with the interpretation.
Favorite moment: Bruce in the field.
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