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10. This Movie Kills: A Scanner Darkly

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 10:51 p.m.

b'Cold open: What does a scanner see?\\n\\nWelcome to the first installment of This Movie Kills! This week we discuss the film A Scanner Darkly (2006), an adaptation of Philip K. Dick\\u2019s novel. What do you get when you shake together drug psychosis, police paranoia, distorted perception, atmospheric anxiety, and identity crisis? Bad vibes all around! Or, maybe just another day in \\u201ca world getting progressively worse.\\u201d The story is from the seventies, the movie feels like the 90s, but the themes are all about today. \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).'