or that that someone is only a machine?
last night i watched a scanner darkly, richard linklater's latest film, based on the novel by philip k. dick.
i like linklater's work. he is made a variety of interesting films: tape, before sunrise, before sunset, waking life, slacker, dazed and confused...
i regret that i didn't see this in the cinema. the sheer scale of the post-production animation is reason enough to see this movie. but it is provocative, as well as playful, art. capitalism, consumption, consumerism, addiction and surveillance (which arguably all stem from the first on the list) are all rendered in their disorientating manifestations. this is a horrifying view of what liberal democracy can spawn. or perhaps it already has, and is busy selling its wares as medical supplies in africa and other parts of this earth we share, getting people hooked on substance d... the drug of law enforcement... d for democracy.
if anyone else has seen it, feel free to share your thoughts...
