It's that time of the month again. The Capital City Bar and Grill presents A Scanner Darkly on Tuesday, April 24th at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. 
A Scanner Darkly is based on a book of the same name that was released in 1977 and written by Sci-Fi author Philip Dick. While the book was written in 1977, it actually took place in 1994. In the film version, the setting is somewhere about 2013 in Los Angeles. The United States has essentially lost the war on drugs and the police are using a new type of surveillance to battle a new drug simply known as "D". "D" is a highly addictive, physchoactive drug that is derived from small blue flowers. The story follows an undercover police officer, Arctor, who has infiltrated the drug community. The story gets complex when it's revealed that Arctor is addicted to "D". There are elements of futuristic law enforcement tools, the blurred line between undercover law enforcement and the drug sub-culture, paranoia and hallucination. In the end, the concept of sacrificing one for the better of society is the question left for the viewer to digest.
Keanu Reeves plays the central character Arctor. The film also stars (ironically) Robert Downey, Jr., Winona Ryder, Woodey Harrelson and Rory Cochrane. It is directed by Richard Linklater.
He directed one of my all time favorites Dazed and Confused as well as subUrbia, Slacker, Waking Life, School of Rock and Fast Food Nation. He also directed the Before Sunrise and Before Sunset films.
One of the things that makes this film unique is that it is filmed in Rotoscope. That basically means that it was filmed digitally but edited over to make it animated. It's a striking technique because it's animation that captures true human movement.
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