A Scanner Darkly (Blu-ray)

*This is NOT a comic! But I did go to film school (where I projected Linklaters' Waking Life until I memorized it)

By Richard Linklater. Published by Warner Brothers. 

Blu-ray disc, 100 minutes, 16:9 aspect ratio, Colour, 2006 (2026 printing)

What does a scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? From the novel by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Minority Report) comes A Scanner Darkly, brought to the screen by filmmaker Richard Linklater with an edgy graphic-novel look. The time: just beyond now. The place: suburbia. The story: a twisted, funny tale of people hooked on Substance D. And of a government that cheerfully destroys its citizens - their rights, their relationships - in order to save them. Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory Cochrane play strung-out friends terrified of each other and of spies. Keanu Reeves plays a spy who's also a friend.until his two personalities begin to split. Enjoy the paranoia. Nobody's watching you. Really.