A SCANNER DARKLY

A Scanner Darkly. Richard Linklater, dir. script, from novel by Philip K. Dick. USA: Warner Independent Pictures et al. (prod./dist.), 2006. See IMDb for complex production and distribution.[1]

Animation over live-action version of PK novel. As with novel, see for "scrambler suits" that disguise one's identity—and act as a kind of electronic objective correlative for the theme of identity—and the motif of constant police surveillance, including by scanner (see useful Wikipedia entry for novel.[2])

The novel is discussed by Lejla Kucukalic, Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (New York: Routledge, 2009) — itself reviewed by Neil Easterbrook, SFRA Review #289 (Summer 2009): pp. 22-23.[3]

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