A Shit*er Darkly

I saw the film A Scanner Darkly last night, and am again kicking myself for even granting it the possibility that it may have been good (I had succeeded in boycotting any of these shit American movies for a while, but well, I thought this would be different, woe is me and my naiveté).

Basically, what it amounted to was a US Government propaganda film against drugs where Keanu Reaves actually comes out with the line (with tears in hi eyes) “I’ll never take Substance D again, for the rest the of my life”. Substance D being the drug which 20% of population is on, 5 years from now, which will DESTROY OUR SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BE WARNED, “drugs are bad, mmmkay”.

MAN IT WAS SO APPALLING, then my friend and I broke out into to mild hysterics at that “keanu’s moment” (snifflesniffile) and ended up getting “shhh”ed at. We contemplated walking out, however it would have been a precarious feat jumping over the laps of largish couple sitting next to us.

So, there was no constructive or, for that matter, noticeable story line. Somehow the majority of the narrative of the film managed to be squeezed into the last 15mins or so. And it was that typical trying to be profound but failing miserably kind of natter.

And, well, nothing of much significance ever happened, apart from Robert Downey Junior (what a f***ing stupid name, who I am embarrassed to admit to seeing a film with that inept, mono-personality, too fast speaking to make out whether he is actually coming out with real words actor) managing to, to much amusement, achieve the “camp” look very successfully yet unintentionally, and woody harrelleson acting more like a teenage American guy from shitty teenage American films, more than ever!!!! Also unintentional.

Well, at least winona ryder looked hot………