In the Summer Issue of ArtForum, Gary Indiana’s “Dick Head” takes a philosophical look at Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly in particular and the director in general. Here is a bit of his keen observation:

He is, unquestionably, the Dostoyevsky of movie dialogue, however flighty and paper-thin his interdigitating narratives appear to be. The repressed and unconscious yodel forth from caricatural druggies, deadbeats, quotidian "romantic couples," high school bullies, nerds, rapacious cheerleaders, authority figures, bourgeois parents, cops; even when they're uttering boilerplate banalities, there's something defective and unsettling in their delivery, tense evidence of a yawning abyss between what they articulate and what's really churning through their minds.

# posted by Peter Bowen @ 6/01/2006 05:19:00 PM

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