"A Scanner Darkly": A Sign of Things To Come?

Philip K Dick may be dead, but his work lives on...and on. Like that damned bunny, Dick's prophetic oeuvre "keeps going and going". Riddley Scott's "Blade Runner" was a gritty film noire adaptation of Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and is arguably the best Sci-Fi movie ever made. "Total Recall" flexed Arnold's muscles into something close to acting, and was another Dick story turned blockbuster film. "The Minority Report" starring Tom Cruise was visually tantalizing but lacked the clarity and vision of the original PKD short story. The latest Philip K Dick story to be "suitably" morphed into film is: "A Scanner Darkly". As is the case with all of Dick's propheto-futurism, it is meant as a cautionary tale.

Much like George Orwell's 1984, "A Scanner Darkly" forewarns of a bleak near-future where humanity has been over-medicated, surveiled, repressed by totalitarian regimes, and our "human-ness" punished to the point of extinguishment.

View the preview for "A Scanner Darkly" at limbovision.org

NOTE: The viewer is supposed to be horrified by the imagery and conditions of our future world; Should you think: "Cool! When am I going to get one of those neat subdermal implant thingies?" report immediately for "education" to The Verge Limbo Institute.

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