“What does a scanner see? I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner … see into me — into us — clearly or darkly? I hope it does see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.”

Love-love the animation, the rotoscoping is awesome and the movement is wonderful - not sure if I really really like the style, but it does bring a lot of character to this film. It just allows for so much more surreality that you can’t just get from live action.

Storyline wise, a bit confusing and head-messy if you’re not on the ball, quite weird but good, I can see how it would have got adapted from a quite in depth novel. Worth a watch I think. It’s essentially based in the future and is about drug addiction of something called Substance D. I would talk about it more but it’s just one of those films you just have to watch.

Plus it sports a many Radiohead tracked soundtrack, so that’s always winner right there.

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