Director Richard Linklater wraps novelist Philip K. Dick's paranoid, prescient nightmare of addiction, anomie, institutional abuse of power, corporate conspiracy, and identity lost down the rabbit hole — or is that a navel? — in the same rotoscoped animation that helped produce the blissed-out groove of his WAKING LIFE (2001). But transforming full, live-action performances into quavering cartoons isn't inherently lyrical, and here it produces the jittery sense of a world dissolving into flat forms and buzzing prattle. It is 2013 and one in five Americans is hooked on a lethally addictive drug, substance D (as in dumbness, despair, desertion or death), on which the g...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a