a scanner darkly
Jul. 11th, 2006 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdi'm a bout to go on call, which means NO FUN FOR THE NEXT WEEK, so i went and saw "a scanner darkly" last nite with quietann.
the rotoscoping was an excellent choice -- it just adds the right edge of dreamy weirdness to the whole thing. i don't think it would work nearly as well live action. they stayed fairly close to the book, which means it had moments of deep creepiness and generally left me with that philip k dick feeling. good stuff.
the rotoscoping was an excellent choice -- it just adds the right edge of dreamy weirdness to the whole thing. i don't think it would work nearly as well live action. they stayed fairly close to the book, which means it had moments of deep creepiness and generally left me with that philip k dick feeling. good stuff.
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Date: 2006-07-12 07:46 pm (UTC)Jeez, don't you hate that? That feeling of, "This would be a really profound book (or at least a good read) if it didn't keep treating people like me with contempt."
Some day I will create an Amazon list of writers who consistently portray women as fully realized human beings. However, for the moment (and I'm sure you know all of these)...Ursula LeGuin, Elizabeth Lynn, Laurie Marks, John Varley. Not too surprisingly, they also portray men as fully realized human beings, too. Reading books like this is a sort of guilty pleasure that shouldn't feel guilty, and that makes me a little mad when I think, "Dammit, this is how people should be/treat each other, so why is this escapist fiction?"