A Scanner Darkly is the near-future Philip K. Dick film that always feels set in the present
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20 years later, the navel-gazing of Richard Linklater's rotoscoped sci-fi take on A Scanner Darkly is as fresh as ever.

Linklater’s adaptation of A Scanner Darkly works so well because, back in 2006, it adhered so closely to the source. Twenty years later, the real world has begun to look uncannily like a dystopia imagined by Philip K. Dick.

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    While the novel is dedicated to Dick’s friends, it’s an even more personal creation. As he writes in the author’s note, “I myself, I am not a character in this novel; I am the novel.” When Freck offs himself with downers and a bottle of red, he lies down in his bed wearing a suit and sporting a copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. One could imagine this as an end for Dick, a self-described religious anarchist and libertarian, a man who once ran in communist circles before turning on them.

    Story old as time.