A Scanner Darkly, by Philippe K. Dick

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The novel, deals with drugs and its consequences, its process of marginalization of distorted social relationships, the subjective deterioration of reality, hallucinations and the paranoia that they generate, Richard Linklater will bring out an adaptation of the letter and the spirit. Adapted from the letter the film follows the progress of the story in the book.

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[...] It is a character in search of reality, who's found lost between his faded conscience and an unreal world, who sees his identity crumble until it disappears. In this way the universe of Philippe K. Dick opens out visually by the use of this process which serves the narration by restoring all the spirit of this novel in which the reality is erased behind hallucinations and hustles our perceptions of this reality. Bibliography: A Scanner Darkly, the movie and the novel by Philippe K. [...]

[...] A Scanner Darkly, by Philippe K. Dick In a suburb of Orange County in California, an imaginary America is given over to the devastation of the most powerful drug: Substance D for Death). We follow there the tribulations of Fred, a narcotic agent, dissenting body hide under a “blurred suit”. He is charged by his superiors to keep a close watch on a certain Bob Arctor, a drug addict who's no other but himself. Then begins an inevitable descent into absurdity and paranoia, where identities become inscrutable. [...]

[...] A qualmish flow of visions, of situations are scrambling without the possibility of revealing the real logic of things which distracts our perception of reality. It really seems that we are suffering from the effects of those illicit matters lost in a false reality that buries us in the doubt. The glance bumps into the prospects of a reality that ends being named, where everything is a barrier between oneself and the world. But this graphic layer does not erase the glances, the set of expressions, even the play of the actors. [...]