A Scanner Darkly RC1 DVD
Warner Home Video
Regie:
Darsteller:
Laufzeit:
100 Minuten
FSK:
ab 18 Jahre
Mehr Infos:
EAN:
0012569594173
Bild:
1.85:1
Ton:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Englisch
Sprache:
Englisch
Untertitel:
Keine Untertitel vorhanden
A Scanner Darkly RC1
How well you respond to Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly depends on how much you know about the life and work of celebrated science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. While it qualifies as a faithful adaptation of Dick's semiautobiographical 1977 novel about the perils of drug abuse, Big Brother-like surveillance and rampant paranoia in a very near future ("seven years from now"), this is still very much a Linklater film, and those two qualities don't always connect effectively. The creepy potency of Dick's premise remains: The drug war's been lost, citizens are kept under rigid surveillance by holographic scanning recorders, and a schizoid addict named Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is facing an identity crisis he's not even aware of: Due to his voluminous intake of the highly addictive psychotropic drug Substance D, Arctor's brain has been split in two, each hemisphere functioning separately. So he doesn't know that he's also Agent Fred, an undercover agent assigned to infiltrate Arctor's circle of friends (played by Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane, and Robert Downey, Jr.) to track down the secret source of Substance D. As he wears a "scramble suit" that constantly shifts identities and renders Agent Fred/Arctor into "the ultimate everyman," Dick's drug-addled antihero must come to grips with a society where, as the movie's tag-line makes clear, "everything is not going to be OK."
While it's virtually guaranteed to achieve some kind of cult status, A Scanner Darkly lacks the paranoid intensity of Dick's novel, and Linklater's established penchant for loose and loopy dialogue doesn't always work here, with an emphasis on drug-culture humor instead of the panicked anxiety that Dick's novel conveys. As for the use of "interpolated rotoscoping"--the technique used to apply shifting, highly stylized animation over conventional live-action footage--it's purely a matter of personal preference. The film's look is appropriate to Dick's dark, cautionary story about the high price of addiction, but it also robs performances of nuance and turns the seriousness of Dick's story into... well, a cartoon. Opinions will differ, but A Scanner Darkly is definitely worth a look--or two, if the mind-rattling plot doesn't sink in the first time around.
While it's virtually guaranteed to achieve some kind of cult status, A Scanner Darkly lacks the paranoid intensity of Dick's novel, and Linklater's established penchant for loose and loopy dialogue doesn't always work here, with an emphasis on drug-culture humor instead of the panicked anxiety that Dick's novel conveys. As for the use of "interpolated rotoscoping"--the technique used to apply shifting, highly stylized animation over conventional live-action footage--it's purely a matter of personal preference. The film's look is appropriate to Dick's dark, cautionary story about the high price of addiction, but it also robs performances of nuance and turns the seriousness of Dick's story into... well, a cartoon. Opinions will differ, but A Scanner Darkly is definitely worth a look--or two, if the mind-rattling plot doesn't sink in the first time around.
Noch keine Rezension vorhanden
Kunden, die diesen Film gekauft haben, kaufen auch
Hilde
ab 6,
Valentinstag
ab 4,
Die Frau des Zeitreisenden
ab 2,
Phantomschmerz
ab 2,
Blind Side - Die große Chance
ab 1,
Berlin am Meer
ab 7,
Diese Filme könnten Dich auch interessieren.
Blind Side - Die große Chance
ab 1,
Berlin am Meer
ab 7,
An jedem verdammten Sonntag - Special Edition Director's Cut
ab 2,
Die Geisha
ab 2,
Agnes und seine Brüder
ab 3,
Ein russischer Sommer
ab 4,
Liebe Mauer
ab 8,
Lila, Lila
ab 2,
Invictus - Unbezwungen
ab 3,
Giulias Verschwinden
ab 3,
Invictus - Unbezwungen
ab 5,
Solitary Man
ab 2,
Beziehungen und andere Katastrophen
ab 4,
Buddenbrooks
ab 4,
Before Sunrise
ab 4,
Die Brücken am Fluß
ab 9,
Die göttlichen Geheimnisse der Ya-Ya Schwestern
ab 7,
Free Willy 2 - Freiheit in Gefahr
ab 3,
Ulzhan - Das vergessene Licht
ab 16,
Das Lächeln der Sterne
ab 3,
The Good German
ab 3,
Das Tagebuch der Ellen Rimbauer
ab 19,
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
ab 4,
Constantine
ab 5,
Baise moi (Fick mich!)
ab 4,
Glück im Spiel
ab 7,
Backdoor Beauties 11
ab 16,
Band of Brothers - Wir waren Brüder - Teil 9 + 10
ab 5,
Letters from Iwo Jima
ab 3,
Before Sunset
ab 4,
Silk Road - Das Blut der Seidenstrasse
ab 19,
Band of Brothers - Wir waren Brüder - Teil 5 + 6
ab 4,
Keine Lieder über Liebe
ab 6,
Mathilde - Eine Grosse Liebe
ab 5,
Von Frau zu Frau
ab 1,
Kaltes Land
ab 3,
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
ab 4,
Band of Brothers - Wir waren Brüder - Teil 3 + 4
ab 22,
Die 120 Tage von Sodom
ab 16,
Verborgene Schönheit
ab 8,
Shortbus
ab 4,
Flower And Snake
ab 5,