A Scanner Darkly (2006)

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A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 science fiction thriller directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage, giving it its distinctive look. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr. and Rory Cochrane.

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Plot: In the future of 2013 ("seven years from now"), America has lost the war on drugs. The highly addictive, debilitating, and illegal Substance D has swept across the country. In response, the government develops an invasive, high-tech surveillance system and puts in place a network of informants and undercover agents. The film opens with Charles Freck (Cochrane) awakening in his cramped apartment to hallucinations of insects crawling all over him and his sleeping dog, he panics and takes a shower hoping to wash the insects away but he is unsuccessful and confides in James Barris' (Downey) help. James agrees to meet with him in a cafe where James also daydreams/hallucinates. Both of them are drug addicts and are heavy users of Substance D. Robert "Bob" Arctor (Reeves) is an undercover agent assigned to immerse himself in the drug underworld and infiltrate the drug supply chain. Arctor and his housemates, Ernie Luckman (Harrelson) and James Barris live in a suburban house in a poor Anaheim, California cul-de-sac neighborhood. They are heavy drug users, and they pass their days by taking drugs and having long, drug-inspired conversations.

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At the police station, Arctor is codenamed Fred, and hides his identity from his fellow police officers by wearing a high-tech scramble suit that changes every aspect of the wearer's appearance. Arctor's superior officer, Hank, like all other undercover officers at the station, also wears a scramble suit. While posing as a drug user, Arctor becomes addicted to Substance D, a powerful psychoactive drug causing a dreamy state of intoxication and bizarre hallucinations; chronic users may develop a split personality, cognitive problems, and severe paranoia. Arctor befriends an attractive young woman named Donna Hawthorne (Ryder), a user of cocaine; she is Arctor's supplier of Substance D and part of the drug scene. Arctor hopes to purchase large quantities of Substance D from Hawthorne so that she is forced to introduce him to her supplier, but Arctor develops romantic feelings for her. Hawthorne refuses Arctor's sexual advances and Arctor's housemates question the true nature of their relationship. Barris implies to longtime friend and near-insane Substance D addict Charles Freck that he has made advances toward Donna only to be refused, and suggests that Freck supply her with cocaine in order to attract her attention away from Arctor and convince her to lower her drug prices.

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