NP - A Scanner Darkly Review

[Ghetta Life]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/awards/cannes/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002464982

The story itself is a mind-bender of big issues: addiction, surveillance, 
paranoia and personal rights. Unfortunately, filmmaker Richard Linklater 
gets swamped by the book's grand philosophical pinions and resorts to verbal 
explication rather than dramatization.

Indeed, movement-wise, there is nothing animated about this animated 
feature. It is static. Scene after scene of verbose fiddle-faddle: 
Characters orate at each other, while sitting in cars, sitting at dining 
tables, sitting in living rooms, sitting at office desks. The film might be 
better titled "The Big Sit."

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