Blog From The Bench

Just came back from the cinema, and here are some words to describe Richard Linklater's adaptation of A Scanner Darkly:

- wonderfully irreverent
- twistedly schizophrenic
- deliriously ambiguous
- perplexing
- hilarious

A Scanner Darkly is a magnificent film, full of vibrancy, delusion and comedy blended into a lavishly animated psudo-film that feels halfway between the introspective mind-trip of Waking Life and good old fashioned Orwellian paranoia. I'm going to need to sleep on it to really process the film properly, but I can say for certain that this one made it to the "Best Film I Saw This Year" shortlist.

Oh, and if you're interested? Watch the first twenty-four minutes of the film here.