Week 5
A Scanner Darkly
Director: Richard Linklater
Year: 2006
The rotoscoping technique used in "A Scanner Darkly" was interesting. If the film didn't deal with themes of drug addiction and insanity, I don't think the style would have worked as it made the whole story very abstract. However, because the POV or Protagonist is a drug addict, the constant slight distortion works in the film's favor, making the whole experience surreal. It also means that the most surreal parts of the film, that would normally be done with CGI (such as when James and Ernie turn into bugs), blend with the rest of the film much more smoothly than it would have if they had been done with 2006 computer graphics.
