Reply #5: Linklater is a fantastic (and subversive) director

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& I'm sure he'll do justice to the book. He's filmed this using the same animation technique as "Waking Life" -


Winonan Ryder still from the film

Here's a trailer:
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wip/us/med/scanner_darkly/scanner_darkly_a_tlr2_qt_300.mov

Interview with Linklater:

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How do you think the meanings of the book have changed in the years since Dick wrote it? Or have they?

Dick wrote this paranoid future, and my premise with the movie was that we are living in science fiction now. This is the paranoid future. I mean, Dick was coming out of the Nixon era in which there was wiretapping, there was COINTELPRO, after citizens, even to the extent of assassinating citizens like Fred Hampton. There?s always a time to be a little paranoid about your government, but I think that?s hit another peak today. If you put a peak in a chart during the Nixon era, I think we?re at another little peak in the graph, a spike up, today in the Bush administration. What he was writing about, which we would term paranoia, well, you just wait a generation and paranoia becomes reality quite often.

Seeing the movie in the context of the Iraq war, heroin trade in Afghanistan and the intelligence controversy involving the NSA, the storyline seems very much of this specific political moment.

Yeah, it?s all tied in, the geopolitics. Again, I didn?t want to make it front and center, but it?s there if you listen closely. At the beginning of the movie, when the guy in the Brown Bear Lodge says, ?Our troops are down there fighting for us,? you get a sense that our government is using as a pretext to go into any country it wants. That?s there, but some people probably won?t pick up on that.

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http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/winter2006/features/schizoid_man.php