{"id":183,"date":"2007-03-10T14:25:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T05:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/a-scanner-darkly\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T05:25:48","slug":"a-scanner-darkly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/a-scanner-darkly\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scanner Darkly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0405296\/\">A Scanner Darkly<\/a> this weekend.  I really liked the rotoscoped-style look of the movie.  I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_K._Dick\">Philip K. Dick<\/a>, but I haven&#8217;t read all of his stuff.  I&#8217;ve never read A Scanner Darkly, so I was quite confused up until near the end of the movie, and then predictably, as with much Philip K. Dick work, I was still unsure about what had really happened.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I do think it was a very interesting movie, but I don&#8217;t think it is as strong at making a cogent point as it could be.  The subject matter is very interesting: consciousness, reality as interpretation, government roles in surveillance, the police state, the police state manufactured from the threat of fear, etc.  But the movie doesn&#8217;t take these things on clearly, and focuses more on an individuals&#8217; journey, and seemed a bit dialogue heavy to me.  It isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;ll watch multiple times, but it was quite interesting.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched A Scanner Darkly this weekend. I really liked the rotoscoped-style look of the movie. I&#8217;m a big fan of Philip K. Dick, but I haven&#8217;t read all of his stuff. I&#8217;ve never read A Scanner Darkly, so I was quite confused up until near the end of the movie, and then predictably, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}