The Movie I have been waiting for.....

Last year I got to see a movie on IFC called Waking Life directed by Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, and School of Rock). A wonderfully thought provoking and mind bending film that was done in what they call Rotoscope. It's an animation technique where they animate over live action frame by frame. Some examples of this are the Ah-ha video for Take on Me or the Dire Straits video for Money For Nothing.

So Linklater used this in a full length feature about a guy who enters a "dream world" and has these conversations and interactions with people. Very trippy. Here is the Trailer:




Anyway I highly recommend seeing this film but be ready. This movie is extremely heavy and full of phylosophical stuff. (a Youtube.com link to a few clips)

So Linklater's newest attempt at this technique is with the Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly. He Wrote the stories that became Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), Total Recall (We can Remember it for you Wholesale) and Minority Report.

I have not read the book so I dont really know the story yet. But by using the rotoscope animation technique I feel that Linklater may be able to bring us in to dark world of the drug addicted, duel personalit main character (played by Keanu Reeves) of A Scanner Darkly like he did with dream/awake world of the character in Waking Life. If this is accomplished then this film may be as good as or a very close having the impact that Waking Life did.

This movies starts at the Green Hills Theater on July 14th. Here is the trailer:



If you decide to go see it let me know what you think.