L'unica via d'uscita è il ricovero forzato presso strutture private che operano su concessione del governo; per le strade, a combattere gli spacciatori, solo uno sparuto gruppo di poliziotti.
Uno di questi, Bob Arctor, vive da anni infiltrato, conducendo la doppia vita di poliziotto e di dograto e spacciatore; la sua situazione peggiora costantemente, verso il punto di non ritorno.
Tratto da Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly), questo Un Oscuro Scrutatore riprende in pieno l'alienazione e l'estraniamento che il libro trasmetteva: una rappresentazione angosciante della droga e della società, descritte da uno che sull'argomento aveva parecchio da dire.
Film a tratti lento, con dialoghi folli e situazioni surreali, riesce comunque a mantenere l'interesse e costruisce bene il finale (identico a quello del libro).
Notevole la tecnica: tutto il girato è stato ritoccato, ridisegnando i tratti di cose e persone (con un effetto simil-cell-shading), contribuendo molto alla "resa" della storia.
Proprio per questo è di fatto impossibile valutare le interpretazioni: "sotto" ci sono Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr. (in un film sulla droga?!?!
) e Winona Ryder, ma onestamente poteva essere chiunque altro.L'effetto è bello da vedere, ma rientra nella categoria "ok, fantastico: ora non fatelo MAI più".
Voto: 7. (di digestione non facilissima, comunque)
Tags: fantascienza, drammatico, thriller, animazione, mistero, droga, sostanza D, sostanza M, spacciatore, polizia, poliziotto, sotto copertura, soffocamento, allucinazione, assuefazione, danno cerebrale, pistola, bicicletta, litigio, guerra alla droga, sesso, cocaina, nudo, vomito, comunità di recupero, sorveglianza, paranoia, coltivazione, sdoppiamento di personalità, suicidio, automobile, Philip K. Dick.
Reeves, Keanu
Nome di battesimo: Reeves, Keanu Charles
Data di nascita: 2 September 1964
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) .... Klaatu [attore]
- The Night Watchman (2008) .... [attore]
- The Lake House (2006) .... Alex Wyler [attore]
- A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... Bob Arctor [attore]
- Constantine (2005) .... John Constantine [attore]
- Ellie Parker (2005) .... Dogstar [attore]
- Thumbsucker (2005) .... Perry Lyman [attore]
- Video Hits: Paula Abdul (2005) (V) .... The Boy (segment "Rush, Rush") [attore]
- The Animatrix (2003) (V) .... Neo (voice) (segment "Kid's Story") [attore]
- Enter the Matrix (2003) (VG) .... Neo [attore]
Biografia:
One of the most inscrutable actors to ever hit it big, Keanu Reeves has been by turns adored, reviled, and grudgingly respected by the movie-going public. As the controversy over his talent rages on, his career choices and paychecks show him inching toward A-list status. Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1964. His mother, Patricia, was a showgirl; his father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. After their marriage dissolved, Keanu moved with his mother and younger sister Kim to New York City, then Toronto. Stepfather #1 was Paul Aaron, a stage and film director - he and Patricia divorced within a year, after which she went on to marry (and divorce) rock promoter Robert Miller and hair salon owner Jack Bond. Reeves never reconnected with his biological father, who is now in prison on charges of cocaine possession. In high school, Reeves was lukewarm toward academics but took a keen interest in ice hockey (as team goalie, he earned the nickname "The Wall") and drama. He eventually dropped out of school to pursue an acting career.After a few stage gigs and a handful of made-for-TV movies, he scored a supporting role in the Rob Lowe hockey flick Youngblood (1986), which was filmed in Canada. Shortly after the production wrapped, Reeves packed his bags and headed for Hollywood. Reeves popped up on critics' radar with his performance in the dark adolescent drama River's Edge (1986), but his first popular success was the role of totally rad dude Ted Logan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). The wacky time-travel movie became something of a cultural phenomenon, and audiences would forever confuse Reeves's real-life persona with that of his doofy on-screen counterpart. Over the next few years, Reeves tried to shake the Ted stigma with a series of highbrow projects. He played a slumming rich boy opposite River Phoenix's narcoleptic male hustler in My Own Private Idaho (1991), an unlucky lawyer who stumbles into the vampire's lair in Dracula (1992), and Shakespearean party-pooper Don Jon in Much Ado About Nothing (1993).In 1994, the understated actor became a big-budget action star with the release of Speed (1994/I). Its success heralded an era of five years in which Reeves would alternate between largely unwatched small films, like Feeling Minnesota (1996) and The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997), and unwatched big films like Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Chain Reaction (1996). After all this Reeves did the unthinkable and passed on the Speed sequel, but he struck box-office gold again a few years later with the Wachowski brothers' cyberadventure The Matrix (1999). Despite his deadpan delivery style and reputation as an oaf, Reeves continues to reel in choice roles and fat paychecks. Whatever he knows, he's not telling the public--his self-deprecating interview tactics and mysterious private life provide little insight into his artistry. As far as Reeves is concerned, it seems, he's just a regular guy who rides a motorcycle, plays in a band (Dogstar), and shows up every now and then for a movie shoot.
Trivia random: Ranked #23 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Citazione random: I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
Salario massimo: $15,000,000 + 15% of the gross, per The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Downey Jr., Robert
Nome di battesimo: Jr., Robert John Downey
Data di nascita: 4 April 1965
Altezza: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Coniuge: Susan Downey::(27 August 2005 - present), Deborah Falconer::(29 May 1992 - 26 April 2004) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
- The Soloist (2009) .... Steve Lopez [attore]
- Iron Man (2008) .... Tony Stark/Iron Man [attore]
- Tropic Thunder (2008) .... Kirk Lazarus [attore]
- Charlie Bartlett (2007) .... The Principal [attore]
- Lucky You (2007) .... Telephone Jack [attore]
- Zodiac (2007/I) .... Paul Avery [attore]
- Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) .... Lionel Sweeney [attore]
- A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) .... (co-producer) [produttore]
- A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... James Barris [attore]
- The Shaggy Dog (2006) .... Dr. Kozak [attore]
Biografia:
Robert John Downey Jr. was born in Greenwich Village, New York City at 1.10 pm. He's the son of underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.. His first part in a movie was in his father's Pound (1970), where 5-year-old Downey played a puppy. When he was 20 years old, he joined "Saturday Night Live" (1975) for one season. After that, he went to Hollywood. In 1987, he got the leading role in director James Toback's film The Pick-up Artist (1987), where he was up against Molly Ringwald. The same year, he played drug addict Julian Wells in the movie Less Than Zero (1987). In 1992, he played Charles Chaplin in Sir Richard Attenborough's film Chaplin (1992). For his astonishing performance, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In the year 2000, guest starred in the comedy series "Ally McBeal" (1997), where he portrayed the attorney Larry Paul, who became Ally's love interest. For that performance, he won the Golden Globe for "best supporting actor in a comedy series". On "Ally McBeal" (1997), Downey got to show he can sing as well as act when he sang Joni Mitchell's "River", "Chances Are" as a duet with Vonda Shepard, and also "Every Breath You Take" together with Sting. He released one song of his own, "Snakes", on the "Ally McBeal" (1997) album "For Once In My Life", and a full album of his work titled "The Futurist" in 2005.
Trivia random: Downey pleaded no contest to drug charges. The judge sentenced him to remain in rehabilitation for one year and to three years probation. [16 July 2001]
Citazione random: "I've become a picky little bitch. I've never bothered to plan projects before. I just used to throw the script across the room and say 'why do they keep sending me this horseshit?' And then I'd start rehearsels two weeks later."
Salario massimo: $100/day, per Game 6 (2005)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Scanner Darkly, A (2006)
A scanner darkly - Un oscuro scrutare
Regista: Richard Linklater
Scrittore: Philip K. Dick, Richard Linklater
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.2/10 (19871 voti)
Durata: 100 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Rory Cochrane .... Charles Freck
- Robert Downey Jr. .... James Barris
- Mitch Baker .... Brown Bear Lodge Host
- Keanu Reeves .... Bob Arctor
- Sean Allen .... Additional Fred Scramble Suit Voice (voice)
- Cliff Haby .... Voice from Headquarters (voice)
- Steven Chester Prince .... Cop
- Winona Ryder .... Donna Hawthorne
- Natasha Valdez .... Waitress
- Mark Turner .... Additional Hank Scramble Suit Voice (voice)
Trama:
In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Arctor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begins to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions.
Trivia random: In Arctor's kitchen there is a drawing of a head in a box next to the phrase "Time to thaw Walt out!". This is a reference to the urban legend that animator Walt Disney had himself cryogenically frozen.
Citazione random: Donna: Hey you guys.::Donna: [screams when Luckman and Barris pull out their weapons at her] Fuck! Jesus!::[they lower their weapons]::Donna: What the fuck is wrong with you? I came in like the note said. It doesn't say when you were gonna get back, so I just, just sat around for a while, and ended up crashing.::Luckman: Love your sweater.::Donna: Just don't touch me! Man you guys were making so much noise. Woke me up.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Dick, Philip K.
Nome di battesimo: Dick, Philip Kindred
Data di nascita: 16 December 1928
Data di morte: 2 March 1982
Coniuge: Tessa Busby::(18 April 1973 - 26 March 1978) (divorced) 1 child, Nancy Hackett::(1966 - 1973) (divorced) 1 child, Anne Williams Rubinstein::(1958 - 1964) (divorced) 1 child, Kleo Apostolides::(June 1950 - 1958) (divorced), Jeanette Marlin::(May 1948 - November 1948) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- Next (2007) .... (novel story "The Golden Man") (as Phillip K. Dick) [scrittore]
- A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... (novel) [scrittore]
- Paycheck (2003) .... (short story) [scrittore]
- Impostor (2002) .... (short story "The Impostor") [scrittore]
- Minority Report (2002) .... (short story) [scrittore]
- "Total Recall 2070" (1999) .... (unknown episodes) [scrittore]
- Blade Runner (1997) (VG) .... (novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") [scrittore]
- Screamers (1995) .... (short story Second Variety) [scrittore]
- Drug-Taking and the Arts (1994) .... (novel "A Scanner Darkly") [scrittore]
- Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) .... (novel) [scrittore]
Biografia:
Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Dick became a published author in 1952. His first sale was the short story "Roog." His first novel, "Solar Lottery," appeared in 1955. Dick produced an astonishing amount of material during the 1950s and 1960s, writing and selling nearly a hundred short stories and some two dozen or so novels during this period, including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," "Time Out Of Joint," "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," and the Hugo-award winning "The Man In The High Castle." A supremely chaotic personal life (Dick was married five times) along with drug experimentation, sidetracked Dick's career in the early 1970s. Dick would later maintain that reports of his drug use had been greatly exaggerated by sensationalistic colleagues. In any event, after a layoff of several years, Dick returned to action in 1974 with the Campbell award-winning novel "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said." Perhaps more importantly, though, this same year Dick would have a profound religious experience that would forever alter his life. Dick's final years were haunted by what he alleged to be a 1974 visitation from God, or at least a God-like being. Dick spent the rest of his life writing copious journals regarding the visitation and his interpretations of the event. At times, Dick seemed to regard it as a divine revelation and, at other times, he believed it to be a sign of extreme schizophrenic behaviour. His final novels all deal in some way with the entity he saw in 1974, especially "Valis," in which the title-character is an extraterrestrial God-like machine that chooses to make contact with a hopelessly schizophrenic, possibly drug-addled and decidedly mixed-up science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick. Despite his award-winning novels and almost universal acclaim from within the science-fiction community, Dick was never especially financially successful as a writer. He worked mainly for low-paying science-fiction publishers and never seemed to see any royalties from his novels after the advance had been paid, no matter how many copies they sold. In fact, one of the reasons for his extreme productivity was that he always seemed to need the advance money from his next story or novel in order to make ends meet. But towards the very end of his life, he achieved a measure of financial stability, partly due to the money he received from the producers of Blade Runner (1982) for the rights to his novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" upon which the film was based. Shortly before the film premiered, however, he died of a heart attack at the age of 53. Since his death, several other films have been adapted from his works (incuding Total Recall (1990)) and several unpublished novels have been published posthumously.
Trivia random: A recurrent motif in many of Dick's stories involves the collapse of an artificial reality; the main character discovers that his entire world has been mechanically imposed on his psyche and that "reality" is vastly different. Other uses of "alternate realities" also figure in some of his novels and stories.
Citazione random: [September 25, 1980, from a conversation with Paul M. Sammon (Paul Sammon)]: You would have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Ryder, Winona
Nome di battesimo: Horowitz, Winona Laura
Data di nascita: 29 October 1971
Altezza: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Alpha Numeric (2008) .... Tea Baker [attrice]
- The Informers (2008) .... [attrice]
- The Last Word (2007) .... [attrice]
- Sex and Death 101 (2007) .... Gillian [attrice]
- The Ten (2007) .... Kelly LaFonda [attrice]
- Welcome (2007/II) .... Cynthia [attrice]
- The Darwin Awards (2006) .... Siri [attrice]
- A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... Donna Hawthorne [attrice]
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) .... Psychologist (uncredited) [attrice]
- The Day My God Died (2003) .... (producer) [produttore]
Biografia:
Winona Ryder was born Winona Horowitz and named after her the town in which she was born, Winona Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern California where there was no electricity. She is the Goddaughter of Timothy Leary and her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady" an anthology of writings on the drug experience in literature - this included one piece by Louisa May Alcott. Winona Ryder was later to star as Jo in this author's Little Women (1994). She moved with her parents to Petaluma (near San Francisco) when she was ten and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater. At 13 she had a video audition to the film Desert Bloom (1986), but didn't get the part. Director David Seltzer, however, spotted her and cast her in Lucas (1986). When telephoned to ask how she'd like to have her name appear on the credits, she suggested Ryder as her father's Mitch Ryder album was playing the background. Ryder was selected for the part of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (1990), but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) and Mermaids (1990) back to back. She said she didn't want to let everyone down by doing a substandard performance. She later made The Age of Innocence (1993) which was directed by Martin Scorsese, who she believes to be "the best director in the world".
Trivia random: Injured knee while filming Girl, Interrupted (1999). [22 March 1999]
Citazione random: "I read biographies of the greats, and they were so messed up that I thought I'd better mess myself up. But I couldn't. I'm too small."
Salario massimo: $2,800,000, per Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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