Linklater On A Scanner Darkly: Its The World We're In

by **dugoboy** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:54 pm

Link:<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/120706scannerdarkly.htm" target="top">Linklater On A Scanner Darkly: "It's The World We're Living In"</a> Linklater On A Scanner Darkly: "It's The World We're Living In" Surveillance, war on drugs and terror themes parallel reality Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | July 12 2006 Acclaimed director Richard Linklater, also currently turning heads for his comments on the Bush administration, joined GCN radio host Alex Jones for a discussion on the deeper aspects of the motivations behind A Scanner Darkly and the message it is intended to broadcast. The film, starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downy Jnr, Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder, is enjoying rave reviews as it slowly rolls out across the country. "On one level it can't really help be seen as a social critique - too much thought has gone into it for people not to see that whole side of it," said Linklater. The movie emphasizes the effects of suffocating surveillance and how this interferes with the character's very notions of identity and reality. "The things I get out of it I can only attribute to Philip K. Dick (on whose book the film is based) - deep metaphorical ideas - just the notion of identity and privacy - they're deep ideas that resonate," said Linklater. "Even if they don't totally understand the movie they get the basic message about this future world - it's set seven years in the future - where people are under surveillance all the time, your calls are being tapped, all your actions are monitored." Parallels to modern day developments have been noted in all the major reviews of the film and it is usually the favorite topic of the media during Scanner press conferences. "Even though its technically a science fiction movie - we're living in science fiction right now," Linklater told Jones. Linklater said he imagined Philip K. Dick laughing at him from beyond the grave when he received a mailed ticket a week later for going through a yellow light after being photographed by a number plate recognition camera and that this incident was one of the catalytic elements for some of the autonomous surveillance themes in the film. "What's the next step - you cross the street at night and you get a ticket for jaywalking because biometrically it can read who you are?" said the director. Linklater outlined how the surveillance themes are more of an overlay on the film rather than a focal point, because the story is set in a groove whereby society has become conditioned to accept that real privacy no longer exits. "There's not a lot of resistance we see going on anywhere - people adapt pretty easily to this - it seems like a nightmarish scenario but it's presented in a pretty normal fashion - so that got people thinking 'oh gosh we're just sheep being led' - this conditioning works eventually." The film is brought to life by the eerie musical score of Austin composer Graham Reynolds - who also featured on Alex Jones' TerrorStorm documentary. Linklater said that the original Philip K. Dick book and the movie are a tribute in memoriam to friends that Dick had lost to drugs and this also resonated with the producers and cast. "This is really about right now - it's easy to imagine a future where the endless unwinnable drug war would sort of meld in with the endless unwinnable war on terror - and how governments and corporations profiteer and the effects of that on the individual - the numbing effects," said Linklater. "So it's this huge cautionary tale on a lot of levels." Linklater also credited Alex Jones, who appears in a cameo role and also did consulting for the film, for providing material that the producers and cast used to bounce off. "I'd been giving out your videos to everybody - it informed everything we were doing so it was definitely the world we were living in," said the director of the upcoming Fast Food Nation. Linklater said the film was his contribution to the wider underlying resistance that is building against the gradual erosion of freedom in western society. "We definitely felt like we got away with something, just to be even able to put this out there in the world felt like a triumph of some kind - within the movie itself there's this kind of very subtle resistance going on beneath the surface - in a way you feel that way yourself you're sort of commenting on the current climate and what's going on in the world in your own way you have to fight against it," said Linklater. Linklater heralded Philip K. Dick as a visionary who was leaps and bounds ahead of his time.  "It's funny how Philip K. Dick could imagine some of this stuff thirty years ago and he was a crackpot - he was a paranoid conspiracy person from the margins to be laughed at - that plus a generation equals reality." "It's the world we're living in." ___________________________________________ "BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT." -Me "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George OrwellEdited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> at: 7/12/06 1:17 pm

by **Et in Arcadia ego** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:58 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>It's funny how Philip K. Dick could imagine some of this stuff thirty years ago and he was a crackpot - he was a paranoid conspiracy person from the margins to be laughed at - that plus a generation equals reality."<hr></blockquote> I'm sure people felt the same way about Orwell. Today's Congress reminds me most of the sheep in Animal Farm: "Two legs good, four legs better!" ____________________ Oderint, dum metuant

by **BannedfromDU** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:39 pm

Going to see it this weekend.

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:32 am

This isn't about the future or even the present. And it sure as hell isn't 'fiction.' This is disinformation through fictionalization. I'd hope that RI readers would know how the CIA monopolized LSD for years and experimented on unwitting subjects, some of whom were destroyed by getting dosed without knowing what happened to them. The CIA set up safe houses to dose people at parties while watching and listening through hidden microphones and cameras. They even used prostitutes as agents. This came out in House and Senate hearings into CIA abuses in 1975 and 1976 when papers which hadn't been destroyed per Richard Helms' orders were exposed and de-classified. Go buy John Marks' 1978 book 'The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences. Marks laid out the whole sordid history of mind-control experiments which were dispersed and re-hidden after the Senate hearings spectacle. Now all the CIA's dirty laundry KEYWORDS and THEMES which were obscured with fictional narratives as entertainment in the 1970s are being either turned into films or just re-released with the excuse of the new DVD format. Like 'Network' which is a 1977 fictionalization of CIA-controlled news which was exposed in the Church Committee hearings and then when the info wasn't included in the final report it was leaked to Carl Bernstein who exposed it in the 10/20/77 issue of Rolling Stone. Now that the internet is exposing Operation Mockingbird, Network is re-released. Notice that John Hopkins University just announced renewed interest in hallucinogens while the Operation Mockingbird press omits mention of how the CIA commissioned universities to study drugs and brainwashing using the Human Ecology Society as a front during the 1950s and 1960s. The press just mentions 'the excesses of the Timothy Leary tune-in, turn-on, drop-out era' without mentioning that even Leary was working with the CIA.

by **chillin** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:50 am

Apparently Phil thought at one time that he was being beamed information via Soviet mind control technology. <a href="http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/pkd.html">This article </a> ***slightly spoilerish*** mentions how parts of Scanner Darkly we're sort of semi-autobiographical. The author of this article speculates that Phil got some kind of dental implant just prior to his first VALIS incident.

Linklater On A Scanner Darkly: Its The World We're In

Linklater On A Scanner Darkly: Its The World We're In

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Bullshit. This 1977 book covers up MK-ULTRA's CIA+LSD.

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