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Link:<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/120706scannerdarkly.htm" target="top"><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">Linklater On A Scanner Darkly: "It's The World We're Living In"</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Linklater On A Scanner Darkly: "It's The World We're Living In"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Surveillance, war on drugs and terror themes parallel reality<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Paul Joseph Watson/<!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">Prison Planet.com</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> | July 12 2006</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"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.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The movie emphasizes the effects of suffocating surveillance and how this interferes with the character's very notions of identity and reality.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"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.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"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."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>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.<br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"Even though its technically a science fiction movie - we're living in science fiction right now,"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> Linklater told Jones. <br><br>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.<br><br>"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.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>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.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"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."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The film is brought to life by the eerie musical score of Austin composer Graham Reynolds - who also featured on Alex Jones' TerrorStorm documentary.<br><br>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.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"<!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">This is really about right now</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> - 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 - <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">the numbing effects</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->," said Linklater.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"So it's this huge cautionary tale on a lot of levels."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Linklater also credited Alex Jones</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, who appears in a cameo role and also did consulting for the film, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>for providing material that the producers and cast used to bounce off.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"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.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Linklater said the film was his contribution to the wider underlying resistance that is building against the gradual erosion of freedom in western society.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"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.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Linklater heralded Philip K. Dick as a visionary who was leaps and bounds ahead of his time.<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>"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."<br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">"It's the world we're living in."</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT." -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> at: 7/12/06 1:17 pm<br></i>

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><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><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I'm sure people felt the same way about Orwell. Today's Congress reminds me most of the sheep in Animal Farm:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Two legs good, four legs better!"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p>____________________<br>Oderint, dum metuant</p><i></i>

Going to see it this weekend. <p></p><i></i>

This isn't about the future or even the present. And it sure as hell isn't 'fiction.' This is disinformation through fictionalization.<br><br>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.<br><br>The CIA set up safe houses to dose people at parties while watching and listening through hidden microphones and cameras.<br>They even used prostitutes as agents.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>Now that the internet is exposing Operation Mockingbird, Network is re-released.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

Apparently Phil thought at one time that he was being beamed information via Soviet mind control technology.<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/pkd.html">This article </a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> ***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. <p></p><i></i>